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136 THE FRASERS OF COWIE, DTJRRIS, AND PHILORTH.
ALEXANDER TEASER, LADY MARGARET DE HAY,
FOURTH OF PHILORTH. DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM, FIRST EARL OF ERROLL.
Alexander Fkaser was served heir to his father, Sir Alexander, hy an
inquest held at Aberdeen on the 8th of May 1482. 1
He married Lady Margaret de Hay, the daughter of William, first Earl of
Erroll, probably about 1470, for the lands of Scatterty and Byth, which his
father had bought in the previous year, were settled upon him and his wife, 2
and in 1474 he also received the lands of Memsie from his father ; 3 but this
last estate seems to have been resigned by him in favour of his brother James
before 1479.
Little or nothing is on record respecting the career of this Lord of Philorth.
He appears to have had no inclination or no opportunity to take any share
in public matters during the lifetime of his more energetic father, and his
own tenure of the family property was but a very short one.
Crawfurd, indeed, says that " he was of those barons who were preparing,
as our historians tell us, to come to the assistance of King James in., when
he fought the battle of Stirling, without waiting for his northern friends,
anno 1488 ;" but he gives no authority for this ; and circumstances that will
appear in the account of his eldest son and successor, render it certain that
he died in or before the year 1 486.
By his wife, Lady Margaret de Hay, who survived him, 4 he left three
sons —
Alexander, who succeeded him.
William, who succeeded his brother.
George, of whose descendants, if there were any, no record remains.
And perhaps a daughter —
Janet, married in 1512 to George Baird of Ordinschivas.
1 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv. 3 Antiquities of Aberdeenshire, vol. iv.
p. 90. P- 125.
- Ibid. vol. iii. p. 530. i Ibid. vol. ii. pp. 402-3.