Alexander Pethein/Peden

ALEXANDER PEDEN OF AUCHINLONGFORD

Alexander Pethein (1648)

Alexander Peden of Auchinlongford is the grandson of Alexander Peden in Hillhead of Sorn . History of the County of Ayr II: p. 427 He was served heir to his grandfather, who is identified as Alexander Pethein in Hillheid of Sorne, on 16 March 1648. Inquisitionum Ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum, etc. Inquisitiones Generales. II

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

16 March 1648: (3433) ALEXANDER PETHEIN, haeres Alexander in Hillheid of Sorne, avi. xix. 309. Inquisitionum Ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum, etc. Inquisitiones Generales. II

Genealogy

History of the County of Ayr etc. By James Paterson (Thomas George Stevenson, Edinburgh, M.DCCCLII.), p. 427

Claimed Ancestry

James Pethein's son Alexander Pethein petitioned James VI of Scotland for lands formerly granted in Ayrshire, and toward the end of the 16th Century moved to Sorn in the eastern part of Ayrshire from the Isle of Mull at Lochbuie and became known as Alexander Pethein, The Laird of Aucheniongford, a minor baron land holder and friend to the Boswells. He married Margaret Hamilton, a cousin of James VI and daughter of Sir James Hamilton III and Janet Beaton (Petun). Sir Alexander Pethein must have had 5 sons, for in the early part of the 17th century there were 6 farms in Ayrshire owned by them, Auchentoigh, Auchmannoch, Blindburn, Hilhead, Burnshields and the one of Aucheniongford. Peden Family

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