Charles Ormston

1625 - 1684  (59 years)

• Name	Charles Ormston
  Birth	1625	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Son of Robert Ormston and his second wife, Janet Lillie
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1665	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3]
  	Merchant and financier. Said to have acted "as banker and merchant for one-half of the Border gentry"
  	pp300-301: "...Charles Ormiston, merchant in Kelso. The transactions of the latter merchant with the Border lords and lairds appear to have been very extensive, he having large bonds over many properties, at a rate of interest which almost swallowed up the whole money rental. It was thus that when an estate once became encumbered, it was a matter of the extremest difficulty to clear it again without the alienation by sale of a portion of its territory. Thus also it came about, by the simple operation of the law of debtor and creditor, that a period was put to the territorial existence of a greater number of Border families during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, than was chargeable against the whole of the previous three centuries of feuds and armed contentions."
  Religion	1665	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1, 4]
  	Quaker. One of the earliest adherents in the Borders
  	Ormiston in 'The Ormistons of Teviotdale' says he joined in 1665 (p65)
  Legal	1 Feb 1665/66	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [5]
  	The Privy Council ordered the Sheriff-principal to arrest Charles and Walter Scott of Raeburn as practising Quakers and take them to Edinburgh Tolbooth
  Imprisonment	20 Feb 1667/68	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [6]
  	Held in Edinburgh Tolbooth, two years past. Date of release order by the Privy Council
  Imprisonment	4 Mar 1669/70	Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [7]
  	Held in Canongate Tolbooth with John Swinton and Walter Scott of Raeburn for practising as Quakers. Privy Council direction that they should be "transported to the severall prisons designed for them". Freed by the Privy Council on 8 March
  Imprisonment	7 Mar 1672/73	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [8]
  	Imprisoned in Kelso Tolbooth having been arrested with 10 others by the Town Militia for keeping a conventicle. Action at the behest of the Earl of Roxburgh . Date reported to the Privy Council
  Role	1683	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [9]
  	Fractioner (absent)
  Property	11 Feb 1682/83	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [10]
  	Purchased 1/5 of 1/48 of East New Jersey from Sir John Gordon of Durno
  Property	11 Feb 1683/84	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [9]
  	Deed, Sir John Gurden, Knight and Advocate, to Charles Ormiston for 1/5 of 1/48 part of East New Jersey
  Role	Abt Mar 1683/84	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [11]
  	Emigration agent
  Name	Charles Ormestoun  [5]
  Name	Charles Ormiston  [6, 11]
  Name	Charles Ormstoun  [12]
  Death	19 Dec 1684	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1, 13]
  	Ormiston reports that Charles died on "the 21st of the 12 month 1684", ie, 21 February 1685
  Person ID	I44819	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

  Family	Jennet Chatto   d. Bef 1682
  Marriage	1651	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
  	Probably...
  Children	1. Johne Ormstoun,   b. 1662, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland d. 22 Oct 1682, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age 20 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Charles Ormston,   b. 1 Apr 1667, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Joseph Ormston,   b. 6 Mar 1668/69, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland d. 23 Apr 1720, London, England (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Robert Ormston,   b. 1665, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Robert Ormston,   b. 1658, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland d. Bef 1665, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age < 6 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Margreat Ormston,   b. 1651, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland bur. 1698, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age ~ 47 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Issobell Ormston,   b. 1661, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Thomas Ormston,   b. 1664, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland d. Died young  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1625 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Marriage - 1651 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Occupation - Merchant and financier. Said to have acted "as banker and merchant for one-half of the Border gentry" - 1665 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Religion - Quaker. One of the earliest adherents in the Borders - 1665 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Legal - The Privy Council ordered the Sheriff-principal to arrest Charles and Walter Scott of Raeburn as practising Quakers and take them to Edinburgh Tolbooth - 1 Feb 1665/66 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Edinburgh Tolbooth, two years past. Date of release order by the Privy Council - 20 Feb 1667/68 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Canongate Tolbooth with John Swinton and Walter Scott of Raeburn for practising as Quakers. Privy Council direction that they should be "transported to the severall prisons designed for them". Freed by the Privy Council on 8 March - 4 Mar 1669/70 - Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Imprisonment - Imprisoned in Kelso Tolbooth having been arrested with 10 others by the Town Militia for keeping a conventicle. Action at the behest of the Earl of Roxburgh . Date reported to the Privy Council - 7 Mar 1672/73 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Role - Emigration agent - Abt Mar 1683/84 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland Death - 19 Dec 1684 - Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3749] Ormiston, Thomas Lane, The Ormistons of Teviotdale, p65. [S3619] Russell, John, The Haigs of Bemersyde, pp300-301. [S3619] Russell, John, The Haigs of Bemersyde, p280. [S3619] Russell, John, The Haigs of Bemersyde, p263. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, II, p135. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, II, p411. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, III, pp155-156, 162. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, IV, pp33,35. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p66. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, A(EJ): Folio 199 (SSTSE023). [S3659] Scots Proprietors, The, Advertisement to All Trades-Men, Husbandmen, Servants and Others Who Are Willing to Transport Themselves unto the Province of New-East-Jersy in America, a Great Part of Which Belongs to Scots-Men, Proprietors Thereof, p2. [S3614] Births (OPR) Scotland, Kelso. Ref 793/ 20 65. [S3615] Strath-Maxwell, Archibald, Digest of Quaker births, marriages and burials in Scotland, 1647-1878, (Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1960;), p199.