Thanks, GR2.
That all looks a bit confusing, but the very first line is the one I am querying.
It also gives as the mother-in-law of Margaret Grant one Penuel Grant, not Elizabeth (or Margaret!) McDonald, and it suggests that William Innes in Kearn and later in Sluggan, was married three times: first to Janet Grant in 1806, then to Margaret Grant in 1807, and then to Janet Cameron in 1814; and it gives his DoB as c 1760, which is at odds with his consistently stated age in the censuses in 1841 (60), 1851 (73) and 1861 (83).
The death certificate of Alexander Innes, soldier, husband of Elizabeth Stuart, whom Dufftown believes to be the brother of William Innes younger in Kearn, says that his mother was Elizabeth McDonald, not Penuel Grant.
If Christian Innes, who married Charles Stuart in Kirkmichael in 1821, was the daughter of William Innes and Margaret Grant, she can hardly have been a younger sister of Alexander Innes who was baptised in 1808. He was baptised on 10 January 1808. Let us suppose that he was born on 1 January 1808. Then his mother could hardly have had another child before say 1 December 1808. Such a child would then have been just 12 years and 6 months old when Charles Stuart married Christian Innes, and just 13 years old when Ann, daughter of Charles Stuart and Christian Innes was born. If there was anything like the normal 2-year gap between Alexander and Christian, Christian would not have been old enough to marry legally in 1821 at all. So she must have been a daughter of a different William Innes, not of the one who married Margaret Grant.
Also, there is in the 1841 census a Christian Stuart, aged 55, with Ann Stuart, 15, in Tomintoul. If this is Christian Innes, she was born in 1781/1786. More likely to be a sister than a daughter of William Innes in Kearn and later Sluggan.
The Fasti just says Alexander Innes (1735-1819), minister of Glenlivet, married and had issue, without giving details. I will look at the Innes database again.
Yes, that is what the article in Vol 6, p 342, says. However there is another article in Vol 8, p 613, that lists his issue as "John Alexander Robert, Lieut 48th Regiment".
John died on 26 April 1870 in Newton, Inveravon; Alexander died 13 May 1875 in Shenval, Inveravon; and Robert (Lieutenant, 48th Regiment of Foot) died on 22 January 1877 in Milford Cottage, Aberlour. All three death certificates name their father as Alexander Innes, minister, and their mother as Elizabeth Innes.
Although I hesitate to question one as illustrious as Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, it does look as if there is some reason to doubt at least some of it?
