Person:Alexander Stevenson (13)

Margaret had a brother, Alexander STEVENSON, commissary clerk of Glasgow, owner of the property Clinker (or Clincart), Cathcart, Lanarkshire, who died 16 apr 1783 (family bible). From “Decennial indexes to the services of heirs in Scotland 1700-1859”. Reg. 5sep1792. Benjamin Barton, Comm. Clerk of Glasgow, to his uncle Alexander Stevenson, Comm. Clerk there, heir gen. According to “Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry”, part of what became the estate of Moore Park, Govan, had been owned by Alexander Stevenson and his nephew Benjamin Barton, successively Commissary Clerks.

1.   various. Family letters (2).