OGSTON, Alexander of Fettercairn ^{1 2}

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Alexander married Margaret STRACHAN, daughter of Sir Alexander STRACHAN of Thornton and Isabel FALCONER.¹ (Margaret STRACHAN was born about 1515.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret married, first, William Ramsay of Balmain, and, secondly, Ogston of Ogston"

from Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise (1877)




"By his (John Ogston of Fettercairn's) wife, a daughter of Barclay of Mathers, he had a son : - 3. Alexander Ogstoun, 'who married Margaret Strachan who had been wife befor to William Ramsay of Balmain' (History, page 83). We now ascertain that his wife was a daughter of Alexander Strachan of Thornton (Memorials of Strachan and Wise, by Chas. Rogers, 1877, privately printed), and by her he had, besides his heir Walter, two other sons, Alexander and David."

from Supplement to the History of the Families of Ogston ^{1 2}