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520 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
died in India, unmarried, about 1822. William Fettes,
his third son by Jane Trotter, was born 1803, and died
September 1891. He married Agnes Campbell Brown,
but had no children.
Margaret, Alexander's only daughter, married Patrick
Fairbairn, who became Principal of the Free Church
College, Glasgow. Their son, John, died in 1874, and
Margaret herself died in 1837.
Robert Pitcairn, Alexander's fourth son, married Jean
Kincaid, third daughter of John Kincaid and Elizabeth,
daughter of George Dainziell, merchant burgess of Glas-
gow. She was born the 23rd of October 1764, married
the 27th of April 1787, died nth of Sept. 1839.
They had five sons and two daughters —
1. John Kincaid, born 1790.
2. Robert (see next chapter).
3. James, born 1798, died 1847.
4. George, who died in the Crimea.
5. Alexander, died 27th May 1886.
1. Elizabeth, died unmarried.
2. Margaret, died unmarried.
James, the third son, was a doctor in Edinburgh. He
married Cecilia, daughter of David Thomson, W.S., and
had one son, who died sine prole, and three daughters.
The eldest, Margaret Thomson, married the Rev. Kenneth
Macleay Phin, D.D., Minister of Galashiels; the second,
Mary Thomson, married William Sym, Esq., and left six
sons : (1) James Pitcairn Sym, W.S. ; (2) John David,
Advocate, Sheriff- Substitute of Perthshire; (3) William
Melvill, C.A. ; (4) Allan Cuthbertson, M.D. ; (5) Rev.
Arthur Pollok, B.D., Minister of Lilliesleaf; (6) William
George, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. ; and a daughter, Cecilia
Thomson. The third daughter, Jane Kincaid, married
Rev. David Playfair, B.A. Cantab., and left two sons,
David Thomson, M.D., and Rev. Patrick Macdonald,
Minister of St Andrews ; and two daughters, Cecilia
Pitcairn (who married Rev. William Vassie, Minister of
Castleton), and Alice Jane Macduff.

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