Name:
Alexander Fergusson
Relationship to John I [O8] PLANTAGENET :
Change 2nd cousin -20 times removed
Henry I Beauclerc (King of England 1100-1135) -> (Matilda) MAUD -> Henry II PLANTAGENET -> John I [O8] PLANTAGENET
Henry I Beauclerc (King of England 1100-1135) -> Robert de Mellent de Caen, 1st Earl of Glouceste -> William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester -> Alice FitzRobert -> Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester -> Isabella de Clare -> Sir Robert le Brus -> Robert I Bruce, King of Scotland -> Margorie Bruce, Princess of Scotland -> Robert II Stewart, King of Scotland -> King Robert III Stewart (King of Scotland) -> Lady Mary Stewart -> William Douglas (2nd Earl of Angus) -> George Douglas (4th Earl of Angus) -> Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus -> Marion Douglas -> William Cunningham (4th Earl of Glencairn) -> Alexander Cunningham -> William Cunningham -> Jean Cunnigham -> William Fergusson -> Robert Fergusson -> John Fergusson -> Alexander Fergusson
Remarks:
14th Laird of Craigdarroch.
Alexander, born in 1685, actively supported King William against the Stuarts.
In 1710 he married Anna Laurie or Annie Laurie, daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, Bt., of Maxwelton, the Annie Laurie of the song. In 1726 they commissioned William Adam,father of Robert Adam, Scotland's most famous architect, to build the new house. The estimate for the work in William Adam's handwriting (copy in the house) came to the then princely sum of £526 2s 9d. It was completed, much as it is today, in 1729, the date above the present front door. Robert Adam, then under his father's tuition, designed and made the fireplace in the hall. "Annie Laurie" lived at Craigdarroch for over 50 years and died at Friars' Carse, near Auldgirth, in 1763. Her grave has never been found.