Lt-Col. Hon. James Alexander

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES ALEXANDER

Lieutenant-Colonel in His Majesty's Foot Guards

Bogus Genealogy

https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun08paul/page/180/mode/1up The Scots Peerage VIII: 180]

The Landed Familes of Britain and Ireland

The Question of Identity

Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander is the son of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, 7th Baron of Menstrie and his wife Janet Erskine, Countess of Stirling The Scots Peerage VIII: 180

Death and Burial

Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander died before 9 December 1671, the date upon which his body was interred in Greyfriars Burying-Ground in Edinburgh, Midlothiam, Scotland. Register of Interments in Greyfriars Burying-Ground, Edinburgh: 13

First Marriage

The Scots Peerage VIII: 180

Second Marriage

The Scots Peerage VIII: 180

Child of the Second Marriage

1. Margaret Alexander

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage VIII: 180
2. Stirnet: Alexander 1

Biographical Summary bt The Scots Peerage

Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander: "matriculated at Glasgow in 1635. He subsequently served in the Royalist Army, and was, in 1666, captain and lieutenant-colonel in His Majesty's Foot Guards. He left the Army 2 December 1668, and died three years afterwards, being buried in the Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, 9 December 1671. He married, first, 16 August 1656, Margaret, daughter of Captain David Scrimgeour, son of the first Viscount Dudhope. She was buried at Holyrood in January1662. and he married secondly, about 1668, Grizel, daughter of James Hay, second son of George, second Earl of Kinnoull. By his second wife he had a daughter Margaret, baptized 23 June 1669". The Scots Peerage VIII: 180

Biographical Summary for Lieutenant-Colonel James Alexander

Lt-Col. Hon. James Alexander (d. 1671), married first, 16 August1656, Margaret (d. 1662), daughter of Capt. Hon. David Scrimgeour and second, c.1668, Grizel, daughter of Hon. James Hay and had issue one daughter. The Landed Familes of Britain and Ireland