DUNBAR, Alexander of Westfield, (Sheriff of Moray (heritable), Sir ^{1 4}

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  General Notes:

"This James Dunbar Earle of Murray, had with Isobel Innes, daughter to the Laird of Innes (to whom he was betrothed, and privatly married,) Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, who was debarred the succession, because the marriage was not publicly solemnized, (thus Boethius.)"

from Family of Rose



"By Isabel Innes the Earl had a son Alexander, afterwards Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield. He died 10 March
1497-98. He inherited or obtained the lands of Carnousie, Cluny, and others which had belonged to his father."

from Scots Peerage ^{2 5}

Alexander married Isabella SUTHERLAND, daughter of Sir Alexander SUTHERLAND 3rd of Duffus and Muriel CHISHOLM.^{1 2 3} (Isabella SUTHERLAND was born about 1434.)

  Marriage Notes:

"3. Isabella, who married Alexander Dunbar of Westfield."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)



"He (Sir Alexander Dunbar) married Isobel Sutherland, eldest daughter of Alexander
Sutherland of Duffus, who survived him and was still alive in 1502."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)



"In right of Morella Chisholme, Alexander Sutherland obtained the following lands of Chisholme - Quarrelwood, Clunie, and Clova, in Moray ; Paxtoun in Tweedale, Kinsterrie in Nairnshire, and other extensive possessions. She is on record in 1424. .....Dovach, a daughter of this union, married Dunbar of Westfield, who, in her right, succeeded to the lands of Clova and Clunie in Moray, which his wife had inherited through her mother, Morella Chisholme."

from History of the Chisholms ^{1 2 3}