McSWAIN, Donald Minister of Strathdon parish, Reverend Mr ¹

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Donald married Margaret ALEXANDER, daughter of Reverend Mr Thomas ALEXANDER Minister of Logie-Mar and Coldstone parish and Jannet FORBES.¹ (Margaret ALEXANDER was born about 1687 and died on 3 April 1754 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Strathdon in 1718)

"Donald M'Swain, born Skye, 1692; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (2nd May 1711); became tutor in the family of Major Hugh Mackay of Scourie; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 25th June 1718; called by the Presb. jure
devoluto 10th Sept., and ord. 26th Nov. 1718; died 8th June 1730. He marr. Margaret (died 3rd April 1754), daugh. of Thomas Alexander, min. of Colstone, and widow of John Forbes of Inverernan, and had issue Benjamin; Hugh; Elizabeth; Helen. [Aberdeen Tests.; Tombst.; Scots. Mag., lix. ; Laing's Donean Tourist.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹