THanks!
I have been checking out a eerage of Scotland book that mentions the King family.
From what I can gather William King owned land near Aberdeen, and in Barra in the 1440's. His son James inherited and passed Barra to his son William in 1507.
William married Marjory Barclay. They had a son William who became heir in 1547. That William married Janet Grier and they had 2 sons- JOhn and James.
James inherited Barra in 1548 (this seems very close to his fathers inheritance only the year before....). James had 4 sons- William, James (advocate of Aberdeen), Alexander (advocate of Edinburgh, who was murdered by George and John Seton- and had 3 known sons- Alexander, Adam and James, all advocates), and finally David of Orkney.
So as far as I can tell, my Alexander was the grandson of Alexander killed by the Setons.....That Alexander married a Janet Douglas, and was also known as Alexander King of Burnhouse. HIs sons were Alexander, Adam and James. Alexander Jnr then had sons- Alexander of Drydane, Adam and James, and possibly a daughter Janet who married James Mossman. Alexander of Drydane then had at least one daughter, Margaret, whom I beleive married David Heriott the goldsmith....or perhaps I have one too many generations in there...
