Person:Alexander Ogstoun (3)

Alexander Ogston

• XVIII. Alexander Ogston.

He was schoolmaster of Tarves ; son of William Ogston and Elizabeth Ritchie, in Ironhill of Coburtie. He was born about 1725, and graduated M.A. at Marischal College. He became parish schoolmaster of Tarves; married, about 1760, a widow, Lind or Paterson, who, at the time of her marriage, had four children by her first marriage. In his later years, Alexander Ogston retired to Aberdeen, where he died in 1774, and was buried along with his wife and children in Footdee churchyard. His children’s names were :—

I. George, fiaxdresser, Aberdeen, born at Tarves, died aged 22.

II. James, born at Tarves, died aged 15.

III. Alexander, of whom afterwards.

IV. Catharine, died aged 16.

The next in succession is

1.   Ogston, Family of. Supplement to the genealogical history of the families of Ogston: With plates, maps and a genealogical table. (Edinburgh, Scotland: National Library of Scotland (Privately Printed), 1897).
2.   Temple, William. The Thanage of Fermartyn including the district commonly called Formartine, its proprietors: with genealogical deductions, its parishes, ministers, churches, churchyards, antiquites, &c. (Aberdeen [Scotland]: D. Wyllie, 1894).
3.   Patrick Lawrence Hogue (Samples) (compiler). Hog Family of Berwickhire.