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John Torrey

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Alexander Comyn

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• • 17th Great-grandfather of John Torrey — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 537468 
  • Father:
  • William Comyn 
  • Mother:
  • Marjory -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1217 
  • Birth Location:
  • Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1289 
  • Death Location:
  • Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elisabeth de Quincy
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  Alexander Comyn (Ahnentafel No:268734 )

  Elizabeth Comyn

  Marjory Comyn

  • Notes: 

  • 6th Earl of Buchan, Justiciar of Scotland

• Sources for Alexander Comyn

  • ¹ Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 4, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1907), 142.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 13.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 3, p. 360.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 530.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 405.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 120.
  • ⁷ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 142.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan", _Earl_of_Buchan, (accessed 03/01/2010).