STEWART, Alexander 6th Earl of Galloway 2
- Born: 1694(1695) 2
- Marriage (1): KEITH, Anne in 1719 1
- Marriage (2): COCHRANE, Catherine 5 January 1728(1729) 2
- Died: 24 September 1773, Aix en Provence, France 2
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Alexander married Anne KEITH, daughter of William KEITH 8th Earl Marischal and Mary DRUMMOND, in 1719.1 (Anne KEITH was born about 1696 and died in 1728 1 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"Anne (Keith), married in 1719 to Alexander, sixth Earl of Galloway. (See that title.) She died 1728."
from Scots Peerage (vol 6)
"Under the Act for abolishing Hereditary Jurisdictions he (Alexander Stewart) claimed £6000 in respect of his hereditary offices of Bailie of Regality of the Priory of Whithorn, Stewart of the Stewartry of Garlies, and Bailie of Regality for the Island of Burray, in Orkney, to the last of which he had succeeded on the death of his kinsman (see William of Mains and Burray, brother of Alexander, first Earl). The sum awarded was, however, only £321, 6s. He died at Aix, in Provence, France, on 24 September 1773, in his seventyninth year, having married, first, in or before 1719, Anne, second daughter of William Keith, ninth Earl Marischal. She died in 1728"
from Scots Peerage (vol 4)
Note:
Anne's father is numbered as 8th Earl Marischal on this website. 1 2
Alexander next married Catherine COCHRANE 5 January 1728(1729).2 (Catherine COCHRANE was born about 1712 and died on 15 March 1786 in Bath, Somerset, England 2.)
Marriage Notes:
".... and the Earl (of Galloway, Alexander Stewart) married, secondly, 5 January 1728-29, Catherine, third and youngest daughter of John Cochrane, fourth Earl of Dundonald. The Countess of Galloway and her sisters, Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, and Susan, Countess of Strathmore, were celebrated beauties of their day. She died at Bath on 15 March 1786. Her will was proved at Edinburgh 1 April 1786."
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 2
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