INNES, Alexander of Breda, Advocate ^{1 4 5}

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  General Notes:

"INNES
ALEXANDER
JOHN INNES/JEAN DUFF
M
12/07/1727
156/ 10 375
Grange"

from Births and Baptisms


Old Parish Registers
Grange parish Banffshire
Baptisms

"July ye 12^th 1727
Alex^r Innes

John Innes of Edingight had a Son in the law and bond of marriage by his Lady Jean Duff baptized & called Alexander. Witnesses Alex^r Duff of Hatton, Alex^r Strachan of Glenkindy, Alex^r Innes Shirre Clerk of Banff, Ann Innes spouse to provost Innes in Elgine, Bathea Garden spouse of Wm Duff of Banff & Helen Innes spouse to Provost Scot in Banff."




167). INNES, Alexander, Commissary of Aberdeen. Advocate in Aberdeen [Henderson, Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, p. 226]. Baptised 12 July 1727, second son of John Innes of Edingight, Baillie of Regality of Strathisla [Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Innes of Balvenie], On 9 May 1754, 'unmarried, aged about 25' deponed concerning teinds as Factor or Cashier to Tutors of Thomas Gordon of Premnay, though Patrick Ochterlony, tenant of Mains of Licklyhead acted as sub-factor [TE.19/Box 78]. On 20 May 1763 had Factory from Patrick Duff of Premnay [CS.96/483, Duff of Fetteresso v. Earl of Fife], Had a Great Seal Charter 6 August 1764 of lands of Breda, which he had purchased. Was agent for James Grant of Grant and active in the formation of the new town of Grantown and settlement of marches with the Duke of Gordon. Was, with Andrew Thomson, advocate in Aberdeen, to whom he had been apprentice, responsible for country conveyancing and law businees for the Earl of Fife [GD.36/172/1]. Employed as arbiter in a number of disputes as to marches and divisions of mosses, for instance with William Fraser, Factor to Lord Saltoun (q.v.) in division of mosses of Crimonmogate 1768-1772. On 20 June 1771 purchased the estate of Cowie in Kincardine-shire at public roup for On 8 January 1772 named a testamentary trustee of Alexander Robertson of Glasgoego, Provost of Aberdeen [RS.8/30, part 2, p.64], On 30 December 1776 he was named one of the Testamentary Trustees of Alexander Lumsden, advocate, Aberdeen, son-in-law (see Note below) of said Provost Robertson [Aberdeen Sasine Abridgements, 1st Series, no.384 and RS.8/30, part 2, p.62], He was one of the creditors of Catharine Gordon of Gight 27 March 1786 [Aberdeen Sasine Abridgements, 1st Series, no.455 and RS.8/30, Part 2, p.137]. There is a portrait with biographical notes in Scottish Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, vol.12, p.49. Died 29 June 1788 [Aberdeen Journal, 1 July 1788],

Innes was named after his maternal uncle, Alexander Duff of Hatton, who served an apprenticeship with an Edinburgh Writer to the Signet and became joint-Factor on the forfeited estate of the Earls of Dunfermline and did much 'to introduce good husbandry amongst his own farmers and in the neighbouring parishes.'[Tayler, Book of the Duffs, pp.230-231]. Thomas Innes of Muiryfold (q.v.) was his granduncle on his father's side."

from Estate Managers Connected With North-Eastern Scotland

Note:

Alexander Innes was son-in-law of Provost Davidson, and his mother-in-law was half-sister of Provost Robertson.




"Innes
Alexander
31 / 12 / 1798
of Breda
disposition and settlement
Aberdeen Commissary Court
CC1/6/61"

from Wills and Testaments ^{4 5 6 7}

Alexander married Elizabeth DAVIDSON, daughter of William DAVIDSON Provost of Aberdeen and Violette ROBERTSON, on 9 February 1767 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (Elizabeth DAVIDSON was baptised on 11 February 1747 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"DAVIDSON
ELIZABETH
ALEXR. INNES/
09/02/1767
168 / A 130 / 495
ABERDEEN"

from Index of Marriages




"Alexander (Innes) .... became a lawyer, and eventually Commissary of the County of Aberdeen .... He prospered and became proprietor of Breda in Alford, Cowie, near Stonehaven, and Tillymorgan in the Garioch. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Davidson, Provost of Aberdeen, and had a large family of two sons and eight daughters."

from Innes of Edingight ^{1 2 3}