ALEXANDER FERRIES [aka 1626 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). -- [Douglas's Baronage, 547; Aberdeen Sheriff Court Books, ii., 287 ; Perth Sas., 3rd ser., x. 68, xi. 217; Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, vii., 51.]
Mr. Ferguson of Kinmundy recollects a relative of his belonging to a previous generation stating that there was a connection between their family and the Farquharsons of Inverey. This indicates that the Rev. Alexander Ferguson, minister of Crathie and Braemar (pp. 238 and 306) in the seventeenth century, was of the same stock as the Badifurrow family. [Records of the Clan, p. 618]
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