Kintyre People


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McAlester, Alexander

McAlester, Alexander

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  • Name McAlester, Alexander  [1]
    Gender Male
    Occupation 1710  Balinakill, Kilcalmonell parish, Argyll, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Beadle [A Scots word for a church official or attendant.] 
    Residence 1710  Balinakill, Kilcalmonell parish, Argyll, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Community-wide Assize Trial 3 Jul 1710  Tarbert, Kilcalmonell parish, Argyll, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    "Alexander McAlester Beddel [the]re Guilty of Killing some Trouts in harvest last by Confession" 
    Person ID I1381  Kintyre People
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2026

  • Notes 
    • In 1692, Archibald and John McAlester were fencible men in Blythswood's and Skipness's Lands.

      In 1694, John Dow McAllester occupied a hearth in Ballenakill.

      Inventory for John Dow McAlester of Ballinakillim, parish of Kilcalmonell, d. Nov. 1692; Archibald M. of Ballinakillim, father; Isabel, sister, and Malcolm McKellar, her husband Ronald McAlester of Tarbet cautioner to marriage cont Archibald McAlester of Tarbert, executor, 19 September 1693, see CC2/5/2.

  • Sources 
    1. [S34] National Records of Scotland, SC54/17/2/35/10.

    2. [S34] National Records of Scotland, SC54/17/2/35/10.
      "Alexander McAlester Beddel [the]re Guilty of Killing some Trouts in harvest last by Confession"

    3. [S36] DSL, (Dictionary of the Scots Language SCIO).
      #3
      https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/bedel_n