DAVIDSON, Alexander of Carnbrogie, Advocate 3
- Born: About 1598 1
- Marriage (1): ANDERSON, Euphemia 1 2
- Died: 26 April 1666 2 4
Other names for Alexander were DAVIDSON, Alexander of Carnbrogie 2 and DAVIDSONNE, Alexander.5
User ID: L931.
General Notes:
"Alexander Davidson, a prominent advocate in Aberdeen purchased the Cairnbrogie estate sometime between 1620 and 1640. Cairnbrogie was an estate located just the east of Oldmeldrum. This Davidson family was prominent in Aberdeenshire and City affairs over several generations as landowners and advocates."
'Alexander Davidson, the Advocate, was the son of Thomas Davidson, a burgess of Aberdeen. He was characterized by Spalding as…"ane good honest man of the Kingis".'
from Clan Davidson Association website 3
Noted events in his life were:
1. Admitted: Society of Advocates, 1616, Aberdeen. 1
Alexander married Euphemia ANDERSON, daughter of John ANDERSON Burgess in Aberdeen, Painter and Unknown.1 2 (Euphemia ANDERSON was born about 1610.)
Marriage Notes:
"Davidson (or Davidsone), Alexander. 1616.
M.A. Son of Thomas Davidson, burgess of Aberdeen. Procurator Fiscal of Aberdeenshire, 1631-60. Honorary burgess of Aberdeen, admitted, along with his servant, George Scot, 7th May, 1635. One of the Assessors to the Rector of King's Coll. in 1663. Proprietor of Cairnbrogie. Married Euphemia, younger dau. of John Anderson, painter, Aberdeen, with issue: 1. Alexander, advocate (1661). Died, 26th April, 1666."
from History of the Society of Advocates
"A tablestone in the nave of the West Church, Aberdeen, bears a Latin inscription that Alexander Davidson of Carnbrogie, advocate, died 26th April, 1666, and also that Alexander Davidson of Newton, advocate, his son, died 2nd April, 1685. [For notes see New Spalding Club's Sheriff Court Records, and House of Gordon, II., p. 467; Temple's Thanage, pp. 76 and 404; and Scottish Notes and Queries for October, 1887, p. 69.]
It is known that the former was admitted a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1616, and that he held the office of Procurator-Fiscal from 1631 to 1660, as also that the latter was admitted a member of the same Society in 1661. The. late Mr Andrew Jervise suggests [Walker's Deans of Guild of Aberdeen, p. 136] that the family may have been descended from Robert Davidson, the 'Provost of braif Aberdene,' who fell at Harlaw in 1411.
Neither the inscription nor any printed record mentions who the wife, of the first and mother of the second-mentioned Alexander Davidson was. Investigation on my part proved fruitless till the other day, when an examination of family papers - courteously loaned me from Birkwood, Banchory - disclosed that the lady was 'Euphen' (otherwise Euphemia) Anderson, younger daughter of John Anderson, who, as a painter, attained a high reputation, his 'fine painting yet (1642) remaining in Gordon Castle' being specially acknowledged."
from Notes and Queries 1 2
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