Alexander Acheson

Bef 1577 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Alexander Acheson
  Birth	Bef 1577
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I99856	First tree
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2018

  
  

  Family	Helen Reid   d. Abt 1614
  Children	1. Alexander (of Gosford) Acheson,   b. Bef 1605   d. Yes, date unknown   2. George (of Gosford) Acheson   3. Helen Acheson,   b. Bef 1598   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F79856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Purchased Gosford Will dated 21 Jul 1606 (Research):Alexander Acheson, called of Gosford, was dilaitit l0th April 1569 for the murder of John Sinclair in Aberlady. He was the son of Alexander Sinclair of Gosford and Marion Cockburn his wife. This lady, in her widowhood, had made over part of Gosford to this Alexander Acheson and Helen Ryd [Reid] his wife, ten years previously. There was probably a quarrel between the unfortunate John Sinclair and Acheson about these lands, which Thomas Sinclair and Mirabelle Dalrymple his wife had charter of in 1458 from James II., in favorem mercatoris sui Johannis Dalrimple burgess de Edinburgh, proejus gratuitis servitiis. Mirabelle was the merchant's daughter. Sir Archibald Acheson of Gosford married first Agnes Vernor of Leith, and secondly Margaret, only daughter of Sir George Hamilton, third son of Claud Hamilton, Lord Paisley. The "Vernoures" were people of consideration in Edinburgh in 1450 '97 burgesses of that city. Their names appear frequently in the " Registrum Magni Sigilli." Sir William Cockburn, first Baronet of Langton's wife is stated to have been Sir Archibald Acheson's daughter by his first wife." Captain Patrick Acheson is assumed to have been a younger brother of Alexander Acheson, the first of Gosford ....Some years earlier he ??? had married Katherine Reid, sister of Walter Reid, abbot of Kinloss. In 1563 the abbot had granted Katherine a feu charter of the abbey's lands of West Grange, formerly belonging to Alexander Acheson and Helen Reid, presumably some relative. West Grange lay a little to the north of Forres, separated from the burgh by the lands of Tannachy (later called Invererne), belonging to Thomas Tulloch of Fleurs.5 In between the two properties was an area of .....