Alexander Innes

Alexander Innes
(Cal 1754-1799)

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Alexander Innes ² ³

Born: Cal 1754 ⁴
Christened: 2 Sep 1755, Mortlach, Banff, Scotland, United Kingdom ⁵
Marriage: Katherine Duncan on 8 Oct 1786 in Fordyce ¹
Died: 15 Sep 1799, Loanhead ⁶
Buried: Rathven

Chronology:

He worked as a Lieutenant of 42nd Regiment of Foot in 1786 and resided at "in this parish", Fordyce. ⁷

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"42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot
The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment's lineage could be traced back as far as the 1660s, when independent companies of men were formed to police the Highlands by the local clan chiefs.
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Early history
After the 1715 Jacobite Rising the British government did not have the resources or manpower to keep a standing army in the Scottish highlands, as a result, they recruited men from local Highland clans that had been loyal to the Whigs to keep order. This proved to be unsuccessful in deterring crime, especially cattle rustling, so independent companies (of what would be known as the Black Watch) were raised as a militia in 1725 by George Wade to keep "watch" for crime. The militia was recruited from local clans, with one company coming from Clan Munro, one from Clan Fraser, one from Clan Grant and three from Clan Campbell. These companies were commonly known as the Am Freiceadan Dubh, or Black Watch, taking their name from their task and from the dark green government tartan they were issued, and eventually recruited many young gentlemen from both Jacobite and Whig clans.
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During the American Revolutionary War, [1775-1783] the regiment was involved in the defeat of George Washington in the Battle of Long Island and the later battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, the siege of Charleston, and the final Battle of Yorktown. The regiment returned to Glasgow in 1790. The Royal Highland Regiment never officially recognized the battle honours for their part in the American War of Independence, because it was decreed that Battle Honours should not be granted for a war with kith and kin...."

He worked as a Capt. of the Enzie Volunteers, before 1799. ⁸
[PTG] "I discovered that Enzie is an old name applied to the western end of the Rathven parish and the eastern end of Belie parish. Volunteer militias were formed all over the UK at the height of the Napoleonic scare." There is also a mention in an early book "the British Volunteer Movement, 1794 to 1806" by Austin Gee of the Enzie companies of the Banffshire Volunteers being predominantly Roman Catholic. (see Google Books).

Alexander married Katherine Duncan, daughter of John Duncan and Katherine Grant, on 8 Oct 1786 in Fordyce.¹ (Katherine Duncan was christened on 13 Aug 1765 in Fordyce,⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹ died on 24 Jun 1851 ¹² and was buried in Rathven.)

1 Scotland's People - Index, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 08/10/1786 INNES ALEXANDER KATHARINE DUNCAN/ M FORDYCE 153/00 0004
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3 Scotland's People - Index, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, List of Children. 05/09/1787 INNES HECTOR MINRO ALEXR INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN CHR FOUND IN 1788 CHR U FORDYCE 153/00 0003
05/09/1787 INNES HECTOR MUNRO ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR352 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
02/03/1789 INNES KATHARINE GRANT ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR352 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
02/03/1789 INNES KATHERINE GRANT AL. INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN U FORDYCE 153/00 0003
17/06/1790 INNES ANNA ALEXR INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN U FORDYCE 153/00 0003
01/02/1792 INNES JOHN ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR352 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001
18/02/1792 INNES JOHN ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR273 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001
01/02/1792 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR352 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001
18/02/1792 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR273 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001
29/04/1793 INNES ELSPET ALEXR. INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR281 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
29/04/1793 INNES ELSPET ALEXANDER INNES/KATHERINE DUNCAN FR352 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
16/08/1794 INNES MAGDALEN ALEXR. INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR283 F RATHVEN 164/00 0001
16/08/1794 INNES MAGDALINE ALEXANDER INNES/KATHERINE DUNCAN FR352 F RATHVEN 164/00 0001
28/12/1796 INNES MARY ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR288 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
28/12/1796 INNES MARY ALEXANDER INNES/KATHERINE DUNCAN FR352 U RATHVEN 164/00 0001
22/01/1798 INNES GEORGE ALEXANDER INNES/KATHERINE DUNCAN FR352 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001
22/01/1798 INNES GEORGE ALEXANDER INNES/KATHARINE DUNCAN FR293 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001.

4 Scotland's People - Index, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk,
All Al* Innes all parishes 1750 to 1758
25/07/1750 INNES ALEXANDER WILLIAM INNES/ U NEWLANDS 767/00 0001 No Image ORDER
2 14/08/1750 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/ M ABERDEEN 168/A0 0008 No Image ORDER
3 19/04/1750 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXR. INNES/ M OLRIG 039/00 0001 No Image ORDER
4 18/12/1751 INNES ALEXANDER GEORGE INNES/ELIZABETH DIAK M RAYNE 236/00 0001 No Image ORDER
5 22/04/1753 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/JANET MILLAR FR284 M SPEYMOUTH 143/00 0002 No Image ORDER
6 07/01/1753 INNES ALEXANDER JAMES INNES/CHRISTAN FORSYTH M NEW SPYNIE 136/00 0001 No Image ORDER
7 29/07/1753 INNES ALEXANDER WILLIAM INNES/HELEN INGLES FR1444 U PRESTONPANS 718/00 0005 No Image ORDER
8 31/07/1753 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/ M TURRIFF 247/00 0001 No Image ORDER
9 27/09/1754 INNES ALEXANDER ALEXANDER INNES/ M AUCHTERLESS 173/00 0001 No Image ORDER
10 09/06/1754 INNES ALEXANDER THOMAS INNES/MARJORY LAMB M TULLIALLAN 397/00 0001 No Image ORDER
11 02/09/1755 INNES ALEXANDER JOHN INNES/MAGDALEN GRANT M MORTLACH 162/00 0001 No Image ORDER
12 05/02/1756 INNES ALEXANDER WILLIAM INNES/JEAN PENNIE M ST FERGUS 166/00 0001 No Image ORDER
13 01/08/1756 INNES ALEXANDER JAMES INNES/ISABEL URQUHART FR143 M RATHVEN 164/00 0001 No Image ORDER
14 12/06/1757 INNES ALEXANDER JOHN INNES/JANET GRANT M MORTLACH 162/00 0001 No Image ORDER
15 21/01/1750 INNES ALEXR JOHN INNES/ M GARTLY 198/00 0001 No Image ORDER
16 29/06/1752 INNES ALEXR HARY INNES/GRISSEL FRIGG FR59 M ST ANDREWS LHANBRYDE 142/00 0001 No Image ORDER
17 23/03/1752 INNES ALEXR OR BREMNAR//ALEXR INNES/ELSPET BREMNAR U WICK 043/00 0001 No Image ORDER
18 01/03/1752 INNES ALEXR WILLIAM INNES/ELSPET BRECK FR269 367 M PREMNAY 234/00 0001 No Image ORDER
19 14/07/1754 INNES ALEXR WM. INNES/ U FYVIE 197/00 0001 No Image ORDER
20 06/05/1756 INNES ALEXR JAMES INNES/ISABEL ABERNETHY M KEITH 159/00 0002 No Image ORDER
21 19/07/1750 INNES ALLEXANDER WILLIAM INNES/ISOBELL RYNNAS U ROTHES (DUNDURCAS) 141/00 0001 No Image ORDER
22 15/12/1758 INNES ALLEXANDER JOHN INNES/ELSPET GRAY M RAYNE 236/00 0001
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5 Scotland's People - Index, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 02/09/1755 INNES ALEXANDER JOHN INNES/MAGDALEN GRANT M MORTLACH 162/00 0001.

6 Sheena Charles Web Site (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sheena_charles/), Further investigation of Alexander Innes led me to Tombstone No. 13 at Rathven "erected by Katherine Duncan to the memory of Alexander Innes, Capt. of the Enzie Volunteers, her husband, who died at Loanhead the 15^th Sept., 1799 and is interred here, aged 45." [PTG].

8 Sheena Charles Web Site (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sheena_charles/), Tombstone No. 13 at Rathven "erected by Katherine Duncan to the memory of Alexander Innes, Capt. of the Enzie Volunteers, her husband, who died at Loanhead the 15^th Sept., 1799 and is interred here, aged 45.".

10 Scotland's People - Index, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, 13/08/1765 DUNCAN KATHERINE JOHN DUNCAN/KATHARINE GRANT U FORDYCE 153/00 0002.

11 Scotland's People - Document Image, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, Baptism 1765. August 13th Mr John Duncan in Broom had a Child born by his spouse Katherine Grant baptised called Katherine so named after Mrs Gordon of Birkenbuth(?) and Mrs Kattie Grant of Nether Elchies(?). Witnesses Mr George Grant Minister at Rathven and Mr Robert Grant Minister at Cullen.

12 Paul Turton Gray, But the most likely Loanhead is the Innes homestead right next to Rathven town where Captain Innes's widow Catherine Duncan (died 24/6/1851 aged 85 - therefore born about 1766) and daughter Mary Munro Innes (died 25/3/1876 aged 78 - - born about 1798) were buried [Rathven Stone No. 14]
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