Ancestry of
Alexander Spotswood

Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

Alexander Lindsay

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Alexander Spotswood — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1152 
  • Father:
  • David Lindsay 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Stewart   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1387 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 31 Mar 1438 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Marjory -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1410 
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  • Child:

  David Lindsay (Ahnentafel No:576 )

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd Earl of Crawford

• Sources for Alexander Lindsay

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 246.
  • ² Cockburn-Hood, Thomas H., The House of Cockburn of that Ilk and the Cadets Thereof: with Historical Anecdotes of the Times . . ., Edinburgh: Scott and Ferguson (1888), 47.
  • ³ Fontaine, Prof. William Winston, "The Descent of General Robert Edward Lee from Robert the Bruce, of Scotland., Southern Historical Society Papers: (1881) Online transcript at https://www.civilwarhome.com/leeancestors.htm, (accessed 03/04/2010).
  • 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), 141.
  • ⁵ 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), 59.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford", _2nd_Earl_of_Crawford, (accessed 03/04/2010).