GARDEN, Alexander of Troup, Major 2 3
- Born: About 1610
- Marriage (1): STRACHAN, Betty in 1660 1
- Died: May 1662 3
Another name for Alexander was GARDEN, Alexander of Troupe, Major.4
User ID: X90.
General Notes:
"The estate of Troup had before 1696 passed to another family (from the Lesmoir Gordons). It is said to have been purchased by a Major Alexander Garden on his return from Sweden, after the battle of Lutzen about 1654."
from Lesmoir
"According to Burke, Major Garden, son of the last Garden of Banchory, entered the service of Gustavus of Sweden, and returning to Scotland in 1654, bought the lands of Troup, and married Betty, a daughter of Strachan of Glenkindie. By her he had a son, Alexander, who married Bathia, a daughter of Sir Alex. Forbes of Cragievar."
from Epitaphs and Inscriptions
"Three Alexanders were born in. Succession. died c.1636 and was "embarrassed by the Denmark experience" and had to sell Banchory. He married 1599 Janet Strachan."
".... was a Major (regiment Unknown) and married ."
from Garden of Troup Gravestone
"As a young man he purchased a commission in the army which was sent by Charles I to assist Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, during the Thirty Years' War. He served in the Swedish army from 1631.
He saw distinguished service and was present at the battle of Lutsen in 1632
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In the 1640's he served as a Captain in General Gustavus Wrangell's Life-guard of Dragoons.
On 14 January 1646, at the camp outside the city of Brix, General Gustavus Wrangell, wrote to the Commandant of the castle of Brix, ordering Captain Alexander Garden to govern and defend the castle of Brix 'to the last man'. A year later for his diligence Alexander was appointed governor of Dupau on 7 July 1647.
From 1649, Alexander held the rank of Major in the Swedish Army. Charles Gustavus, [afterwards Charles X of Sweden] subscribed to a Passport, dated 9 October 1649, in favour of Major Garden, mentioning that the said Major has served for 18 years."
from Wikitree
" A Major Garden, 'laird of Troup,' son to the laird of Nether Banchory, died May, 1662. (Scottish Notes and Queries, 1st series, vii., 54.)"
from House of Gordon
"As a country house dweller in Gardenstown, Banffshire for more than 30 years, I have always taken a keen interest in the local Kirk of St John, the burial place of Major Alexander Garden, 1st Laird of Troup and his son Alexander Garden, 2nd Laird of Troup and their wives Betty Strachan, daughter of Alexander Strachan of Glenkindy, and Bathia Forbes, daughter of Sir John Forbes of Craigievar....
These two seventeenth century stones are of huge importance to the history of the village of Gardenstown and should not be lost....
The legends are :
'Here lyes interred the bodye of Major Alexandre Garden of Troupe, who departed this life March 1682 (?) (misreading of 1662?), and Alexander garden of Troupe, his son, who departed this life Aprile 27th 1731'
and
'Here lyes interrd the bodies of Betty Strachan spouse to Major Alexander Garden of Troup who departed this life .....( indecipherable) and Bathia Forbes spouse to Alexander Garden of Troup who departed this life....... Not all clear .' "
from Eileen Bishop quoted in Wikitree 3 5 6 7 8 9
Research Notes:
TROUP
Troup was situated in the parish of Gamrie in Banffshire.
Alexander married Betty STRACHAN, daughter of Alexander STRACHAN 7th of Glenkindie and Margaret FRASER, in 1660.1 (Betty STRACHAN was born about 1623.)
Marriage Notes:
"...Betty married to Garden of Troup"
from Strachans of Glenkindie 1
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