IRVINE, Alexander 6th of Kingcausie 1
- Born: About 1589
- Marriage (1): IRVINE, Isobel
- Died: 17 August 1644
Cause of his death was murder by William Forbes.1
User ID: D745.
General Notes:
"17th March, 1630. - Alexander Irwing, now of Kincowsie, eldest son of the late John Irwing of Kincowsie, to-day admitted burgess of Aberdeen, and also served heir to his father in half a net's salmon fishing on the water of Don."
"14th August, 1630. - Alexander Irwing de Kincoussie haeres Joannis Irving de Kincoussie, patris. - (Retours Special, Kincardine, No. 55.)"
"31st December, 1631. - Sasine to Alexander Irvine, of Kingcaussie, on Kingcaussie."
"8th January, 1635. - Sasine to Alexander Irvine of Kingcaussie, on Auchorthies (County Kincardine)."
"25th January, 1642. - Renunciation of Kincoussie by Gilbert Menzies of Pitfoddells, in favour of Alexander Irvine of Kingcaussie."
"17th August, 1644. - Alexander Irving of Kincaussie was shot at the Crabstone, near Aberdeen, by William Forbes, natural son of John Forbes of Leslie. The Committee of Estates directed the assassin to be rewarded with 2000 merks. But after the Restoration, in 1661, for the same deed he was outlawed. - (Spalding's 'Trubles,' and Acts of S. Parliament.) This Alexander Irvine left a widow and five childrenn. (Spalding's 'Trubles.')"
from Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches
"...Alexander Irvine of Kincousie, of Kingcausie, who, on the night of Saturday, 17th August 1644, when near the Crabestone, riding into the town of Aberdeen, was slain by William Forbes, natural son of John Forbes of Leslie. 'Many,' writes Clerk Spalding in his Memorialls of the Trubles, under the date August 1644, 'wes sorrowful at his death, being mervalouslie weill belovit both in burghe and land. He left behind him his dolorous wyf and five fatherless children. Vpone the morne he is takin wp and buriet within the Larid Drumis Iyll in Sanct Nicholas' Kirk of New Aberdene with grty mourning and lamentations.' "
from The Scottish Johnstones 1
Alexander married Isobel IRVINE, daughter of Robert IRVINE of Fornet and Moncoffer and Margaret SKENE. (Isobel IRVINE was born about 1611.)
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