The Genealogy of the Duff Family.

Andrew Duff. Died 1515. Married Helen Hay.

John Duff. Married Elizabeth Abercrombie.

John Duff of Muldavit. Died 1593. Married second Margaret Gordon of Cairnburrow.

Adam Duff of Clunybeg. Born 1590. Died Clunybeg April 1674. Married in Cairnborrow, Aberdeenshire 1622 Beatrix Gordon (born Cairnborrow 1608).

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Jean Duff. Married John Muir.
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Alexander Duff of Keithmore. Born 1623. Died Keithmore 1696. Buried Mortlach. Married 1650 Helen Grant (1635-1694) dau of Alexander Grant.

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Mary Duff. Married 1684 Andrew Fraser.
1 Helen Fraser. Married Charles Hay.
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Elizabeth Duff.

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Alexander Duff of Braco. Born 1652. Died December 1705. Married 1678 Margaret Gordon (died 1721), dau of James Gordon.
1 Margaret Duff. Born 1679. Married first 15th November 1694 Charles Gordon of Glengerack.
I. Margaret Gordon. Baptised 6th February 1696.
II. Alexander Gordon. Born 1698. Killed Battle of Fontenoy 1745. Married 1721 Jane Helen Ogilvie.
III. Katherine Gordon. Born 1701. Died young.
IV. Jean Gordon. Born 1702. Died young.
V. Janet Gordon. Born 1703. Died young.
VI. John Gordon. Born 1705. Died young.
VII. Katherine Gordon. Born 1706. Married George Gordon of Birkenbush.
VIII. Mary Gordon. Born 1707.
IX. Helen Gordon. Born 1709.
X. George Gordon. Born 1710.
XI. Magdalen Gordon. Born 1712. Married the Rev George Grant of Boharm.
Margaret married second James Ogilvie.
XII. Anne Ogilvie. Born 1720.
2 Helen Duff. Born about 1681. Died 1735. Married about 1700 William Gordon, third of Farskane.
I. William Gordon, fourth and last of Farskane, which estate he sold to Lord Findlater and went to Norway as a merchant.
II. Archibald Gordon.
III. James Gordon. Married Jane Smith of Dundee.
IV. Margaret Gordon.
V. Elspet Gordon.
VI. Mary Gordon.
3 Mary Duff. Born about 1683. Married 1699 Alexander Abercromby (born 1675), son of Alexander Abercromby and Elizabeth Baird.
I. Jean Abercromby. Died Moffat 1796.
II. George Abercromby.
III. James Abercromby.
IV. Alexander Abercromby.
4 William Duff. Born 1685. Died January 1717/18. He had an illegitimate son
I. William Duff. Born about 1700. Died 23 August 1786.
William Duff then married about 1706 Helen Taylor (died 20 November 1780).
5 Anna Duff. Born 1689.
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William Duff of Dipple. Born 1653. Died Dipple 1 May 1722. Married first 1681 Jean Gordon (born Edinglarrie), dau of George Gordon.
1 Helen Duff. Born 1682. Died July 1746. Married 22 October 1702 William Sutherland.
2 Catherine Duff. Born Dipple 1683. Died 20 December 1758. Married 1709 Alexander Duff, son of Patrick Duff (see below) and had issue.
3 Mary Duff.  Born 1684. Died in her youth.
4 Isabel Duff. Born 1688. Married Alexander Mackintosh.
I. William Mackintosh. Born 1707.
II. John Mackintosh. Born 1708.
III. Jean Mackintosh. Born 1709.
IV. Helen Mackintosh. Born 1710.
V. Alexander Mackintosh. Born 1711.
VI. Catherine Mackintosh. Born 1712.
VII. James Mackintosh. Born 1713.
VIII. Mary Mackintosh. Born 1715.
IX. Elizabeth Mackintosh. Born 1716.
X. Lachlan Mackintosh. Born 1717.
XI. Magdalen Mackintosh. Born 1718.
XII. Ludovick Mackintosh. Born 1719.
XIII. Janet Mackintosh. Born 1720.
XIV. Anne Mackintosh. Born 1721.
XV. Alexander Mackintosh. Born 1723.
XVI. John Mackintosh. Born 1724.
XVII. Isabel Mackintosh. Born 1725.
XVIII. Rachel Mackintosh. Born 1726.
XIX. George Mackintosh. Born 1727.
XX. Charles Mackintosh. Born 1729.
XXI. Christina Mackintosh. Born 1730.
XXII. Mary Mackintosh. Born 1731.
5 Alexander Duff. Born 1690.
6 Elizabeth Duff. Born about 1692. Married Thomas Donaldson.
7 Jean Duff. Born 1694.
8 William Duff, 1st Earl of Fife. Born betw Sept - Nov 1697. Died Rothiemay, Banff 30 September 1763. He married first in Cullen, Banff 19 September 1719 Janet Ogilvie (born about 1695, died Banff 25 December 1720), dau of James Ogilvie and Anne nee Dunbar. Married second in St James's Place, 1723, Jean or Jane Grant (born Edinglarrie 28 September 1705, died Rothiemay, Banff 16 January 1788), dau of James Grant.
I. William Duff. Born 1724. Died London 26 March 1753.
II. Anne Duff. Born 1725. Died Edinburgh 1805. Married 1745 her first cousin Alexander Duff (born 26th March 1718, died 1764).     
A. Jean Duff. Died 15th February 1805. Married Bath 4th January 1763 James Grant (born 19th May 1738, died 18th February 1811). 13 recorded children.
III. Janet Duff. Born 1727. Died Carnoustie 3 March 1758. Married 1745 William Gordon (proscribed after Culloden, he died in exile at Douai 5th June 1751). She is said to have eloped with him, though the family quickly became reconciled to their marriage.   
A. Jean Gordon. Born ca. 1745. Died ca. 1767. Married Duncan Urquhart. Issue.
B. John Gordon. Died (kia) Bassein 1781. Regarded by his family as profligate, he was as a young man 'despatched to India with some difficulty'. Married Hannah Corner. 3 recorded children.  
C. William Gordon. Born ca. 1750. Died Mountblairy, USA 1776 'while on recruiting duty'.  
IV. James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife. Born Rothiemay 29 September 1729. Died 24 January 1809. Married 1759 Dorothea Sinclair (died Leith 1818). The marriage was childless.
The Second Earl had issue by his unnamed mistress.
A. Jane or Jean Duff. Still alive 1795.
B. General Sir James Duff. Born ca. 1755. Died Westbourne 5th December 1839. MP for Banffshire 1784. Married 12th August 1785 Basilia Dawes (died 28th May 1849).  
i. Louisa Duff  Born ca. 1802. Died 1st September 1855.    
ii. Sir James Duff  of Kinstair Born 24th January 1804. Died Leamington 10th February 1837. Married Paris 22nd February 1827 Eliza Charlotte Prescott (died 1840).       
1. Eliza Georgiana Duff, Born 2nd February 1829. Died 4th August 1918. Married 17th January 1850 as his second wife John Tollemache, MP (born 5th December 1805, died 9th December 1890). He was subsequently created 1st Baron Tollemache of Helmingham.
a. John Richard Delap Tollemache. Born Peckforton, Cheshire 22nd October 1850. Married firstly 26th December 1872 Eleanore Starnes.  
b. Hamilton James Tollemache. Born Peckforton 22nd January 1852. Married Mabel Hanbury (born ca. 1860, died 9th February 1941).     
A. Edward Devereux Hamilton Tollemache Born 1st January 1885. Died 1947. Brewer. Married 9th Fenruary 1909 Violet Aline Ridgeway (died 8th May 1970).
i. John Edward Hamilton Tollemache, Born 24th April 1910. Died May 1975. Married 16th February 1939 Dinah Susan Jamieson (born 22nd May 1918, died January 1998). Issue.
c. Murray Arthur Tollemache. Born ca. 1853. Married Hastings 13th July 1892 Margaret Willier (born ca. 1854).       
d. Stanhope Alfred Tollemache. Born Helmingham 26th August 1855. Married 27th September 1905 . Elizabeth Monks. Issue.   
e. Rhona Cecilia Emily Tollemache. Born Helmingham 25th September 1857. Died 10th October 1940. Married 17th April 1883 Thomas Wood of Gwernfed. Issue. 
f. Duff James Alfred Tollemache. Born Peckforton 5th January 1859. Died Bournemouth 18th April 1936.
g. Douglas Alfred Tollemache. Born 27th June 1862. Married St James's, Westminster 17th August 1887 Alice Mary Head (born ca. 1865).     
A. Bevil Douglas Tollemache Born 11th April 1889. Died Givenchy 22nd December 1914.  
B. Cynthia Mary Tollemache Born ca. 1890. Married St Margaret's, Westminster 26th August 1916 Lt Col Guy Rattray Dubs (born ca. 1891, died Portsmouth 23rd October 1930).   
C. Humphrey Douglas Tollemache Born Ipswich 6th December 1894.    Married Elsie Violet Raphael. Issue.      
D. Angela Mariota Tollemache Born London 10th June 1900. Married 1923 as his second wife Algernon Henry Strutt. Issue.  
E. Rupert Douglas Tollemache Born ca. 1903. Died ca. 1933. 
h. Stratford Robert Louis Halliday Tollemache. Born Hall Helmingham 25th June 1864. Married Claverley, Shropshire 14th February 1912 Ethel Julia Cavendish.     
i. Mortimer Granville Tollemache. Born 12th April 1872. Married Westminster 14th July 1894 Margaret Jane Roberts (born ca. 1874).      
2. Louisa Duff, Born ca. 1830. Died 21st August 1895. Married St Peter's Pimlico 5th  January 1852 as his second wife Francis Capper Brooke (born 10th September 1810, died 13th January 1886) of Ufford, Suffolk.  
a. Constance Brooke. Born Suffolk 6th September 1852. Died 25th February 1930. Married London 4th April 1877 Captain Edward Lethbridge of Limerick (born 25th November 1846, died 1894). Issue.  
A. Sibyl Lethbridge, Born Albemarle Street, London 10th January 1878. 
b. Florence Brooke. Born Ufford, Suffolk 14th September 1853. Died den Haag 9th December 1928.  Married London 26th September 1878 Robert Eugène Boreel (born Paris 19th December 1856, died Cannes 22nd April 1896).
A. Francis William Robert Boreel, 11th Bt. Born  Pau, France 19th March 1882. Died Los Angeles 1st June 1941. 
B. Alfred Boreel, 12th Bt. Born Lausanne 22nd July 1883. Died den Haag 20th August 1964. Married firstly Utrecht 1st July 1911 Aletta Cornelia Anna Schimmelpenninck (born 18th March 1885, died 3rd June 1913). Married secondly 28th March 1919 her sister, Reiniera Adriana Schimmelpenninck (born 7th February 1897, died 9th February 1957). Issue.
i. Sir Francis David Boreel, 13th Bt. Born 14 June 1926. Married 1964 Suzanne Campagne, dau of Willy S J Campagne.
(a) Reniera Adriana Boreel. Born 1965.
(b) Christina Wilhelmina Boreel. Born 1966.
c. Reginald Brooke. Born Suffolk 17th September 1854. Died 22nd August 1933. Married London 18th February 1879 Jane Austin. 
d. Edward Brooke. Born Suffolk 1856. Died April 1921.
3. Major James Duff, Born Elgin 21st July 1831. Died 23rd December 1878. Buried with his family St Botolph's, Westwick, Norfolk, England.  1876 - 1878 Member British parliament for North Norfolk.  "He spoke on military matters and took an active part in carrying through parliament the Norfolk and Suffolk Fisheries Act (1877)." Married London 27th April 1859 Mary Laura Dawkins (born London 10th June 1837, died 13th April 1927).
a. Mildred Blanche Duff. Born London 26th January 1860. Died 8th December 1932.   
b. Beatrice Duff. Born 11th March 1861. Died 8th February 1863.   
c. Lilian Amy Duff. Born Westwick House, Norfolk 7th April 1862. Died 12th May 1910.   
d. Bernard James Duff Born Westwick, Norfolk 17th May 1867.With his mother in 1882 he changed his name from Duff to Petre, following a condition in the will of his mother's grandfather, Jack Petre whereby they inherited a substantial property at Westwick in Norfolk. Col 5th Norfolk Regiment. He had a distinguished military career. Married 29th November 1907 Ruby Alexandra Thellusson (born 13th January 1870, died 19th January 1955).
A. John Frederick Berney Petre, Born Knightsbridge 19th July 1913. Died 1999.     
e. Granville John Berney Duff  Born Westwick, Norfolk 5th June 1869.
f. Catherine Basilia Duff  Born London 11th April 1877. Died 1951.  
4. Alfred Alexander Duff, Born 13th September 1833. Died London, Ontario 29th November 1857. Degree Brasenose. Joined navy 1854. 
iii. Sarah Duff  Born 2nd February 1806. Died ca. 1883. Married 21st June 1826 W Hewett (born 2nd July 1795, died 26th October 1891). Issue.   
iv. Anne Duff  Born ca. 1807. Died ca. 1898. Married 20th December 1828 P Hewett. Issue.   
C. Major William Duff. Born ca. 1756. Died Durham 1795. Married ca. 1787 Dorothy Skelly.
i. Sophia Henrietta Duff  Married Roland Mainwaring. Issue.   
V. Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl of Fife. Born 18th April 1731. Died Duff House, Banff 17th April 1811. Married in Carriston, Forfar 17th August 1775 Mary Skene.    
A. James Duff. 4th Earl of Fife. Born 6th October 1776. Died (dsp) 9th March 1857. Matriculated Christchurch 1794. Married Westminster 9th September 1799 Maria Caroline Manners (died 20th December 1805).
B. Gen. Hon. Col. Alexander Duff. Born c.1778. Died Walham Green 21st March 1851. Married 16th March 1812 Anne Stein (born c.1789, died 14th February 1859).    
i. James Duff  5th Earl of Fife. Born Edinburgh 6th July 1814. Died Aberdeen 7th August 1879. Married British Embassy, Paris 16th March 1846 Agnes Georgina Elizabeth Hay (born 12th May 1829, died London 18th December 1869), dau of William George Hay and Elizabeth Fitzclarence, dau of British King William IV via his liaison with Dorothea Jordan nee Bland. 6 recorded children.
1. Anne Elizabeth Clementina Duff, Born 16th August 1847. Died 31st December 1925. Married 17th October 1865 John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess  (born 10th April 1831, died 26th October 1899).    
a. John James Dudley Stuart Townshend. Born 17th October 1866. Died 17th November 1921. Married 1905 Gladys Ethel Gwendolen Eugenie Sutherst (died 1959). Issue.   
b. Agnes Elizabeth Audrey Townsend. Born 12th December 1870. Married James A Durham .   
2. Ida Louise Alice Duff, Born 11th December 1848.   Married Adrian Elias Hope.           
a. Agnes Henrietta Ida May Hope. Married 1889 Edwin Joseph Lisle March Philippe de Lisle (born 13th June 1852). Issue.   
3. Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.  Born Edinburgh 10th November 1849. Died (dspms) Assouan from pneumonia (a few weeks after being shipwrecked on the ss. Delhi off Cape Spartel, Morocco) 29th January 1912. Member British Parliament (Liberal) for Moray & Nairn 1874 - 1879. Succeeded 1879 on his father's death as 6th Earl of Fife, created Duke of Fife 1889. Married Buckingham Palace 27th July 1889 HRH Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar "The Princess Royal" (born London 20th February 1867, died London 4th January 1931). She was eldest daughter to the Prince of Wales who on 22nd January 1901became King Edward VII.  
a. Alastair Duff. Still-born 16th June 1890.       
b. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, the Duchess of Fife. Born East Sheen 17th May 1891. Died London 26th February 1959. Married St James's Palace 15th October 1913 Prince Arthur Frederick, Duke of Connaught (born Windsor 13th January 1883, died London 12th September 1938).   
A. Alistair Arthur Duff, Duke of Connaught. Born 9th August 1914. Died Ottawa 26th April 1943.
c. Princess Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha . Born East Sheen 3rd April 1893. Died London 14th December 1945. Married London 12th November 1924 Charles Alexander Carnegie 11th Earl of Southesk (born Edinburgh 23rd September 1893, died  16th February 1992). Issue.   
4. Alexina Duff. Born 20th March 1851. Died 23a Fulham Road, Kensington 30th April 1882. Married as his first wife  (Henry) Aubrey Coventry ( born 10th October 1845, died 13th May 1909).  
5. Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff. Born 18th May 1852. Died 11th January 1925. Married 4th July 1882 Sir Alfred Cooper (born Norwich ca. 1838, died 3rd March 1908) FRCS (Surgeon).
a. Stephanie Agnes Cooper. Born Henrietta Street, London 5th September 1883. Married London 19th December 1903 Arthur Francis Levita (born ca. 1865, died 1910). Issue including 
A. Enid Levita. Married (Ewen) Donald Cameron.
i. Ian Donald Cameron. Married Mary Fleur Mount.
(a) David William Donald Cameron. Born 9th October 1966. Leader of the Conservative Party 2005-. Married 1 June 1996 Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield (born 1971), dau of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield 8th Bt
(A) Ivan Cameron. Born with cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy.
(B) Nancy Cameron.
(C) Arthur Cameron. Born 14 February 2006.
b. Hermione May Louise Cooper. Born Henrietta Street, London 11th May 1885. Married Marylebone 18th October 1904 Neil Arnott, Wine Merchant  Issue.   
c. Sybil Mary Cooper. Born Henrietta Street, London 26th November 1886. Married London 1904 Richard Vaughan Hart-Davis. He is thought not to have been father of Sir Rupert.
A. Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis. Born 28th August 1907. Died 8 December 1999. Publisher and literary guru. Married firstly 1929 Peggy Ashcroft (from 1956 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-91) Married secondly 1933 Catherine Comfort Borden-Taylor. Issue.
i. Bridget Min Hart-Davis. Born 1935. Married 1963 David Malcolm Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe (born 1930).
(a) Hon Amy Comfort Trustram Eve. Born 1964.
(b) Hon Simon Rupert Trustram Eve. Born 17th April 1966.
ii. (Peter) Duff Hart-Davis. Born 1936. Historian, biographer and journalist.
iii. Dr Adam John Hart-Davis, FRSA. Born 4th July 1943. TV producer and presenter. Married 1965 Adrienne Alpin (divorced 1995) and has 2 sons.
Sir Rupert married third 1964 Winifred Ruth Ware (died 1967). He married fourth June Williams.
B. Deidre Phyllis Ulrica Hart-Davis. Born Stanhope Street, London  5th July 1909.  Married London 24th April 1930 Ronald Egerton Balfour (born 1896). 2 daughters, the ygr of whom married a Rathbone & has a child.
d. Alfred Duff Cooper. 1st Viscount Norwich. Born Marylebone 22nd February 1890. Died January 1954. Prominent politician and diplomat. Married 1919 Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners. (born Grantham  29th August 1892, died 16th June 1986). Issue.
A. John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, CVO. Married first 1952 Anne Frances May Clifford. Married second 1989 Hon Mrs Mary Philipps, dau of 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB, GCMG.
6. Mary Hamilton Duff, Born 20th February 1854. Died 20th March 1854.   
ii. George Skene Duff  Born ca. 1816. Died Bournemouth (Holdenhurst) 12th March 1889. Lord Lieutenant of Morayshire.
iii. Catherine Duff  Born ca. 1820. Died ca. 1869. Married 1841 John Lewis Ricardo. Issue.    
1. Algernon Lewis Ricardo, Died ca. 1871.       
iv. Louisa Tollemache Duff  Born ca. 1824. Died ca. 1864.  Married 1848 Richard Brooke.   
VI. Jane Duff. Baptised 16th November 1732. Died 1776. Married 1753 Keith Urquhart of Bethelnie.
A. James Urquhart  Born 8th December 1754. 
B. Lewis Urquhart Died ca. 1790.
C. Jane Urquhart 
D. Mary Urquhart 
VII. George Duff. Born 1736. Died July 1828. Married Frances Dalzell (died 1778) who refused to go to Scotland so they resided in London till her death.
A. James Duff  Born 1758. Died 29th March 1832. A lunatic from birth, he was placed in an asylum named Beaufort House in south west London under the name of James Thompson.  
B. George Duff  Born 1760. Died unmarried 1828.  
C. Jane Duff  Born 1765. Died 1792.  
D. Frances Duff  Born Elgin 26th June 1766. Died Rothiemay 6th March 1787.
VIII. Lewis or Ludovic Duff. Born Banff 1737. Died Craven Street, London 14th October 1811. Married 1767 Deborah Davies (died 1796).
IX. Patrick Duff. Born and died 1738.
X. Helen Duff. Born 1739. Died Gibraltar 20th November 1778. Married 1764 as his first wife her father's first cousin Rear Admiral Robert Duff of Fetteresso (died 6th June 1787) - qv below. Issue see below.
XI. Sophia Duff. Born 1740. Died 1826. Married 13th July 1774 as his third wife Thomas Wharton (born October 1735, died 1816) who in 1805 changed the family name to Wharton- Duff. 4 recorded children.
XII. Catherine Duff. Born 1741. Died (unm) Edinburgh 1765.
XIII. Arthur Duff. Born 1743. Died 2nd June 1805. Buried Duff House Mausoleum.
XIV. Margaret Duff. Born 1745. Died Brodie House 24th June 1786. Married 6th March 1768 James Brodie (born 31st August 1744, died 17th January 1824). Issue.
9 Ludovick Duff. Born 1698.

William Duff of Dipple married second 5 March 1702/03 Jean Dunbar (died 1750).
10 Anne Duff. Born 1705. Married William Baird of Auchmedden
11 Janet Duff. Born 1710. Married Sir James Kinloch of Kinloch.
12 Mary Duff. Born 1714. Bap Elgin Parish 5 August 1714. Married J Abercromby.
13 Alexander Duff. Born 1715. Bap Elgin Parish 18 March 1715/16.
14 Henrietta Duff. Died Edinburgh 8 August 1748.
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Margaret Duff. Born 1654. Married James Stewart.