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Name: Alexander GORDON, Earl Of Sutherland
Sex: M
Birth: 1552 ^b
Death: 6 Dec 1594 in Dunrobin ^d
Burial: Dornoch ^u

Parents:

Father:
John GORDON, Earl Of Sutherland Birth: 1525 Death: 23 Jun 1567 in Dunrobin

Mother:

Helen STEWART Death: Abt 25 Nov 1564 in Flanders

Family:
Marriage:

Barbara SINCLAIR on Abt 1567 .^m1
Barbara SINCLAIR Death: Abt 1573

Marriage:

Jean GORDON on 13 Dec 1573 at Strathbogie .^m2
Jean GORDON Birth: 1546 Death: 14 May 1629 in Dunrobin

Children:

John GORDON, Earl Of Sutherland Birth: 20 Jul 1576 Death: 11 Sep 1615 in Dornoch
Sir Robert GORDON, Baron Of Gordonstown Birth: 14 May 1580 in Dunrobin Castle, co Sutherland Death: Mar 1656 in Gordonstoun, Moray

Bibliography

Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Baronetage, 1611-1800, vol 2 English Irish and Scottish 1625-1649. Exeter, England: W Pollard, 1902. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/268971 Also available at https://archive.org/details/completebaroneta02coka Also available at https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524382 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CB II [Ap][p0-9].*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-1, Skelmersdale-Towton. London: St Catherine Press, 1953. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/1 [Ap][p0-9].*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1[pc][0-9]*].
Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, with a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Additions. Baltimore, MD: Gen Pub Co, 2008. NYPL APK 08-4216. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Roberts RD600 p[0-9]*].
Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VIII p[0-9]*].
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1941]; second son, b Midsummer 1552 [Ref: CP XII/1 p552],
parents:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1941, CP XII/1 p552, Roberts RD600 p64, SP VIII p343]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: CP XII/1 p554, SP VIII p344],
place:: [Ref: CP XII/1 p554]

Sources for burial Information

place:: [Ref: CP XII/1 p554, SP VIII p344]

Sources with Information about marriage to Barbara SINCLAIR

date:: abt 1567 [Ref: CP XII/1 p553]; first marriage of Alexander [Ref: SP VIII p344],
divorced:: 30 Jun 1572 [Ref: CP XII/1 p554, SP VIII p344]

Sources with Information about marriage to Jean GORDON

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1941, CP XII/1 p554, SP VIII p344],
place:: [Ref: CP XII/1 p554, SP VIII p344],
names:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1056],
child:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1941, CB II p277, CP XII/1 p554, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p244, Roberts RD600 p64, SP VIII p345, Weis AR7 #252]