Alexander Bethune
b: BEF 1785
d: AFT 1811
Biography
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS
-- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 4.
Graduated M.A. in Aberdeen in 1785. he was ordained missionary in
Duirinish in 1790 and became Minister of Harris in 1806. He stated on
the 1st April 1811 that in his parish, there was a population of 3,000,
"and among them there not 200 that can read English, and none capable of
reading Gaelic alone." He married in 1802, Isabel, daughter of Sheriff
MacDonald of Greshornish, with issue.
Facts
  • BEF 1785 - Birth -
  • AFT 1811 - Death -
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Alexander Bethune
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Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) Neil Bethune
Birth
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Marriageto Janet MacLeod
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PARENT (F) Janet MacLeod
Birth
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Marriageto Neil Bethune
FatherWilliam MacLeod
MotherMargaret Bethune
CHILDREN
MAlexander Bethune
BirthBEF 1785
DeathAFT 1811
Marriageto Isabel MacDonald
MJohn Bethune
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Death
MFarquhar Bethune
Birth
Death
FMargaret Bethune
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Death
FMarion Bethune
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FAnn Bethune
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FChristina Bethune
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Family Group Sheet - Spouse
PARENT (M) Alexander Bethune
BirthBEF 1785
DeathAFT 1811
Marriageto Isabel MacDonald
FatherNeil Bethune
MotherJanet MacLeod
PARENT (F) Isabel MacDonald
Birth
Death
Marriageto Alexander Bethune
Father?
Mother?
CHILDREN
MNeil Bethune
Birth
Death
MWilliam Bethune
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Death
FIsabella Bethune
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Death
FHelen Bethune
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MDonald Bethune
Birth
Death
FJanet Bethune
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Death
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