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Facts and Events
| Name |
Alexander Stirling |
| Gender |
Male |
| Marriage |
Bef 1785 |
to Ann Alston |
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
References
- Groves, Joseph A. The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina compiled from English, colonial and family records. (Atlanta, Ga.: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1901).
- THE ROBERT MUNSON FAMILY OF LOUISIANA — 1792-present, in Rich, Erma Munson (researcher and compiler). The Munson Papers: the personal papers of Mordello Stephen Munson. (Austin, Texas: Eugene C. Barker Texas History Library, University of Texas at Austin)
Chapter 6.
- STIRLING AND ALSTON: The first reunion of the descendants of Alexander Stirling and Ann Alston was held May 26, 1934, at Wakefield Plantation. This was in an area once known as New Feliciana under the Spanish regime, but now it is West Feliciana Parish. This reunion commemorated the 150th anniversary of the marriage of this couple, and the 100th anniversary of the building of Wakefield house by their son, Lewis Stirling. Two hundred and twenty seven descendants (and their spouses) attended. In 1984, about 650 people attended the second reunion. A third reunion occurred in 1999.
Alexander Stirling is the first Stirling identified in this country. According to his will, he came from Forfar, Augusshire, North Britain, and according to Spanish records, his arrival took place prior to 1777. Evidence points to his forbears being at the settlement of Leckaway in the church parish of Kinnettles, about four miles west of the city of Forfar in Augusshire, but no records have been found to prove this.
According to records, Ann Alston -- who became Alexander's wife -- and her siblings, were sent to Benjamin Farrar's place in Pointe Coupee for protection sometime after the revolt at Fort Panmure in the Natchez District in 1781. Ann's father, John Alston, one of the leaders of the revolt, had absconded, later to be imprisoned in New Orleans, and her mother, Elizabeth Hines Alston, had died.
Alexander befriended the children, who were having a difficult time, and in 1784, he and Ann, both residents of Pointe Coupee, were married in the District of Baton Rouge by William Dunbar.
Source:
Weller, Ann Alston Stirling (Main Author). Alexander Stirling and Ann Alston in Spanish Feliciana: Ancestors, Descendants, and Allied Families c.1999
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