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Name |
Alexander Andrew (Dean of Orkney) Pitcairn |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I131509 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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Notes |
- The following seems at odds with the family detail here:
ALEXANDER PITCAIRN, born St Andrews. Fife; educated at Univ. of St Andrews; M.A. (23rd July 1658); passed trials before Presb. of St Andrews and recommended for licence 27th July 1664 ; ord. by Bishop Honyman and inst. to Sandwick and Stromuess 24th April 1666 ; adm. here in 1672, and became dean and provost of Orkney ; presided at the institution of Murdo Mackenzie as Bishop of Orkney, 5th Sept. 1676 ; dep. for Episcopacy 22nd June 1698, and deprived by Privy Council in 1699 ; died at Kirkwall in 1715. He marr. (1) Elizabeth (died 5th Sept. 1681), eldest daugh. of John Anderson, Dean of Guild, St Andrews, Fife, and had issue John, min. at Hoy and Graemsay ; Elizabeth ; Margaret (marr. William Halcro of Crook) ; Isobel ; Helen ; Christian ; Anna (marr. Donald Calder, periwig maker, Kirkwall) : (2) Alison Douglas, and had issue Alexander, merchant, Lerwick ; George of Muness. [Craven s South Ronaldshay, 60-74, 113 ; Gen. Reg. Sas., 18th April 1705 ; Orkney Tests. ; Old Lore Misc., iii., 98.]
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