Tour Scotland photograph of the Whitson Family of Parkhill Mausoleum in the churchyard cemetery in Rattray, Perthshire, Scotland. Charles Hill Whitson, Esquire, born 1840, died 1881, owned 998 acres in the area. Other Whitsons in Scotland include, William Quhitsoun, bailie of Perth in 1369, known as Willelmus de Qwhithosum, burgess of the same town in 1379; John Quhytson who witnessed a charter by Robert Mersar of Innerpeffray in 1454; John Quhitsoun, burgess of Perth. In 1484 and again in 1498 the lands of le Peblis in Angus were leased to Thomas Quhitsone. James Quhitsoun was witness in Fife, 1547; Thomas Whitson was notary and writer in Kirktoun of Rattray, 1688, Janet Whitson appears in Easter Caputh in 1693, and Thomas Whitson was an important man in Dundee in 1823.
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