Christian Alexander

Alexander, Alexander (d. 1580/1). Eldest son of William Alexander (d. 1574) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Alan Coutts or Couttie. He married c.1567, Marion, daughter of Gilbert Graham of Gartavertane and had issue:

(3) Christian Alexander, married 25 September1592 Walter Neisch of Dubbiehead, bailie of Stirling (d. 1606) and had issue; died about 1618.

From “Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the House of Alexander ... “ By Charles Rogers. Page 29. GoogleBooks

By his marriage, about the year 1567, with Marion, daughter of Allan Couttie, Alexander Alexander had a son, William, and two daughters, Janet and Christian.

Christian Alexander, younger daughter of Alexander Alexander of Menstry, married, on the 25th September 1592, Walter Neisch of Dubbiehead, Stirling. In the record of the marriage she is described as “dochter to umquhil Alexander Alschunder of Menstrie” (Kirk Session Records of Stirling). In October 1593, Walter Neisch was placed on the Council of the Dean of Guild, on which he appears for several successive years, and again in 1606 (Guildry Records). On the 10th June 1599, he is described as a bailie of the burgh (Town Council Records). He died in September 1606 of “the contagious sickness of the plague of pest.” In his will he is described as “of Wester Dubbettis, bailie burges of Striveling;” he names as his executors “William Alschinder of Menstrie, and Alexander Duncan Paterson, burgess in Stirling, and Elizabeth Alexander, his spouse, the said Elizabeth only intromissatrix, and Lord Murray of Tullibarden oversman.” He appoints his “free geir" to be divided among his children. Among the debtors enumerated in his inventory are “Patrick Drummond of Milnab as chamberlain of Stratherne ; Abraham Drummond; Sir James Chisholm of Cromlix; Agnes Bruce, relict of John Murray of Mulardoch; Robert Murray of Buchindy; Drummond of Drummond Ernoch; John Stewart of Innergeldy; John Stewart in the Port; Mr William Murray of Oughtertyre; Patrick Murray of Lochland; James Mar, his tenant in Dubbettis; Richard Peat in Polmaise; Andrew Laurie; Sir Robert Melville, when he was treasurer; Lord Elphinstone, for two years' fee and ane half; Adam Oswald, servitor to my Lord of Tullibarden” (Commissariat Register of Stirling). Christian Alexander or Neisch died in 1608. Her will, dated 15th March 1618, names William Alexander of Menstry as one of the cautioners (Com. Reg. of Stirling).

Walter Neisch, son of Walter Neisch of Dubbiehead and his wife Christian Alexander, obtained office as an usher of the Scottish Exchequer. To this office he was appointed by a royal letter, dated Whitehall, 19th February 1632, and addressed to the Earl of Morton, Treasurer; the Earl of Stratherne, President of the Privy Council; and Viscount Stirling, Principal Secretary for Scotland. As installation was delayed, a royal letter was addressed to the Court of Session on the 12th November 1633, and again on the 28th January 1635, peremptorily commanding that his title to the office of usher should be legally confirmed (Register of Letters). Walter Neisch is named in 1640 as sheriff-clerk of Haddingtonshire, an office conferred by his relative, the Earl of Stirling (Reg. Mag. Sig., Paper Register, No. 479).

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