Alexander Buchanan

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  General Notes:

Date: 25/10/1798
Name: BUCHANAN, Alexander
Trade: Militia man Place: Topic: named as the father of Janet Nivison's child; now in Dalkeith Notes: army Archive Ref: CH2/537/10 Page(s): 83
Name: NIVISON, Janet
Trade: Place: Topic: with child; stated father was Alexander Buchanan, a Militia man who is now in Dalkeith; rebuked Notes: illegitimacy Archive Ref: CH2/5371/0 Page(s): 83

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Weaver. ¹

• Occupation: Sergeant Major in the Militia: Tain, Ross And Cromarty, Scotland.

• Occupation: Gunner, Royal Marine Artillary, 1812, Woolwich Arsenal, London.

Alexander married Elizabeth Paxton, daughter of Robert Paxton and Elizabeth Sivewright, in 1806. (Elizabeth Paxton was born in 1773 and died on 11 Feb 1845 in 14 Innes Street, Aberdeen, Scotland.)

Alexander next married Elizabeth Banks, daughter of James Banks and Leadia Paton, in 1799. (Elizabeth Banks was born on 27 Apr 1783 in Dalkeith, , Midlothian, Scotland and died in 1805.)

Alexander did not marry Janet Nivison French in 1798 in Kirkpatrick Juxta, Dumfries.