Sir Laurence OLIPHANT, Of Gask

1610 - 1679  (69 years)

• Name	Laurence OLIPHANT
  Prefix	Sir
  Suffix	Of Gask
  Birth	1610	Forgandenny, Perthshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  LifeSketch	[1]
  	LifeSketch
  Name	Laurence Oliphant  [2]
  Occupation	Scotland,   [1]
  	1st Earl of Gask
  _FSFTID	LDYY-RTG
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDYY-RTG
  _UID	26B2EDFC2BA544419091436D8C1FC18DE062
  Death	20 Jul 1679	Perthshire, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I2914	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Sir Laurence (Of Gask) OLIPHANT,   b. 1575, Scotland d. 22 Jul 1632, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Lillias (Graham) GRAEME, Of Inchrackie,   b. 1570, Perthshire, Scotland d. 23 Jan 1656, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1606
  Family ID	F12677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lilias OLIPHANT,   b. 22 Nov 1620, Perthshire, Scotland d. Jan 1669, Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	19 Feb 1634	Findo Gask, Perthshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Anna OLIPHANT,   b. Abt 1635, Argyll, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   2. Lilias OLIPHANT,   b. Abt 1636   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Laurence OLIPHANT,   b. Abt 1637, Findo Gask, Perthshire, Scotland d. 20 Aug 1672 (Age ~ 35 years)   4. Patrick OLIPHANT, Laird Of Williamson,   b. Abt 1638, England d. 1694 (Age ~ 56 years)   5. James OLIPHANT,   b. Abt 1640, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   6. David OLIPHANT,   b. 30 Jul 1643, St. Monance, Perthshire, Scottland d. 2 Nov 1707, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 64 years)   7. Andrew OLIPHANT,   b. 1644, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   8. Lilas OLIPHANT,   b. 1645, Williamtoun, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1678, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 33 years)   9. Archibald OLIPHANT,   b. Abt 1647, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Jane BRANKS   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	16 May 1676	Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
  Family ID	F536734098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Katherine MITCHELL,   b. 16 Jun 1623, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 1681, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F536734099	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 4	Jonet MAULE,   b. 1583, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F536734100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 5	Mary,   b. Abt 1585, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F536734101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  Biography Laurence was born in about 1608 to 1610. Laurence died on 20 July 1679 and was buried at Trinity Gask Parish Churchyard, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.[1] This documentation also states year of birth as 1608. This person was mentioned in a book in 1679 with Marriage Banns.[2] Children mentioned in the record are: David 1643-1707 Andrew unk-1666 Laurence unk-1672 Archibald unk-1686 Patrick Other children are mentioned in other documentation (see below). Laurence, the eldest son of Laurence and Lilias Oliphant, was established as second Laird of Gask in August 1632. His Great Seal charter is dated 9th March 1633. He married eighteen months after his father's death Lilias, the eldest daughter of his cousin Patrick, sixth Lord Oliphant. [3] Laurence Oliphant was born about 1610 at Newton of Pitcains, Perthshire, Scotland to James and Marjorie Grahame Oliphant. He married Lilias Graham Oliphant April 10, 1634 at Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland and their children were: Anna, Patrick, Lilias, Laurence, Andrew, Archibald, Charles, John, Andrew (again), David, Elizabeth and Charles (again). Laurence died July 20, 1679 at Scotland where he is presumed buried. This was in the sources with his son's sources and I cannot reconcile the different marriage day and month (10 Apr 1634 to 19 Feb 1634). Sources ? Burial: "UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current" Find A Grave: Memorial #241641406 Ancestry Record 60526 #212946590 (accessed 13 December 2024) Sir Laurence Oliphant burial (died on 20 Jul 1679) at Trinity Gask Parish Churchyard, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Born in 1608. ? Bonns: "Scotland, Red Books of Scotland, 1600-1939" Compiled by Gordon McGregor; The Red Book of Scotland; Volume: Red Book of Scotland Volume 7 Mit-Orr Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62525 #48331 (accessed 13 December 2024) Name: Sir Laurence Oliphant 2nd of Gask; Death Age: 71; Birth Date: 1608; Marriage Banns Date: 19 Feb 1634; Death Date: 1679; Spouse: Lillias. ? pg 414, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883 This person was mentioned in the book The Oliphants in Scotland. With a selection of original documents from the charter chest at Gask in 1879. Book: Anderson, Joseph, Keeper of the National Museum of the Antiquaries of Scotland, The Oliphants in Scotland. With a selection of original documents from the charter chest at Gask Edinburgh : For private circulation; 1879; page: (104 of 542) Internet Archive (accessed 13 December 2024) (from Oliphants of Gask) The years of the married life of Laurence and Lilias Oliphant were certainly not without troubles. Laurence Oliphant himself seems to have been of a fairly peaceable disposition ; but he certainly was involved in the feud which caused the killing of Gilbert Gray in 1605. Patrick Gray of Bandirran includes him in the discharge he granted to Lord Oliphant in 1617. The William and Laurence Oliphant, styled of Gask, who were implicated in the murder of the boy Toscheach, of Monzievaird, in 1618, were uncles of the fifth lord not to be confused with Laurence of Ross and Lamberkin, and his brother, William of Orchardmill. The charter of the barony of Cask was on the old lines of that historic charter granted two hundred and seventy years before to "our beloved and faithful Walter Olyfaunt and his spouse, Elizabeth, our beloved sister." Lord Oliphant now gave a charter of Gask with all its woods and fishings, and special liberty of fishing in the water Earn for three days in forbidden time, "to be held of the King in blench ferm fee, for yearly rendering, if asked, at the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist, of a chaplet of White Roses." When Laurence and Lilias are established in the House of Gask there rises about the records of them a sense of reality. They were in middle life. Jean and Margaret, their daughters, were still with them. All their sons were grown up. The days of their historical importance were past ; they were settling down to quieter times, to the serene life of country people, at a time when rights and property were beginning to be more respected. Now were formed those staunch friendships with other old families of Strathearn, the Hurrays, the Drummonds, the Graemes, the Robertsons, which were to outlast many generations. Doubtless, too, the Oliphants would be intimate with their neighbours and kinsmen across the Strath, six miles away the family of Montrose at Kincardine, where the seven children would be of about the same age as some of the Gask sons and daughters. All the married life of Laurence and Lilias Oliphant was passed in a time of peace ; Lilias alone was to see the "Great Troubles." Laurence Oliphant, the first Laird of Gask, died 22nd July 1632. He had been possessor of Gask only five years. The following is an extract of his will : "I, Laurence Oliphant of Gask, being seik in bodie, haill alwayis in spirit and of perfyt memorie . . . recommend my saull to God Almightie and ordeins my bodie to be bureit in the earth within the Kirk of Gask, reverently." He left a legacy to Lilias Drummond of Pitkellony his "oy" in remembrance of his love. His executors are to "cause bild above my buriell plaice ane sufficient and cumlie yle (aisle) with ane loft above the same."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 4 Dec 2022), entry for Laurence OLIPHANT, person ID LDYY-RTG. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2024), entry for Laurence OLIPHANT, person ID LDYY-RTG. (Reliability: 3).