FERGUSON, Alexander Minister of Crathie parish, Reverend Mr ¹

   Another name for Alexander was FERRIES, Alexander.¹

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Alexander married Christian OCHTERLONY.¹ (Christian OCHTERLONY was born about 1596 and died after 1671 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Crathie in 1626)

"Alexander Ferries [or Ferguson] of Crathienaird, born 1596; educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1613); adm. to Kindrochet in 1622; trans, and adm. before 11th Feb. 1626; was recommended to Parliament 30th July 1649 for reparation of his losses,amounting to £3805, 10s., incurred through having 2500 men quartered on his lands in April 1647, and March 1649, and an Act was passed in his favour; died May 1663. He marr. Christian Auchterlony (who was alive in 1671), and had issue Alexander, who married the heiress of Ballyoukan; John, min. of Glenmuick; James; William, wadsetter on the laird of Skene's lands, Tarland, said to be great - grandfather of Robert Fergusson the poet; Agnes (marr. as his second wife, James Farquharson, first of Inverey)."

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹