Alexander McEchny

Male 1747 - Yes, date unknown


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Alexander McEchny was born in Apr 1747 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Apr 1747 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (son of John McEchnie); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FamilySearch ID: KCY3-NL7
    • _UID: C803500B44694715A15D500A094E0000DE85

    Notes:

    Christened:
    MCECHNY
    ALEXANDER
    JOHN MCECHNY/ISOBEL LINDSAY
    M
    16/04/1747
    493/
    10 215
    Bonhill

    Alexander Mcechny
    Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
    Name:?tab?Alexander Mcechny
    Gender:?tab?Male
    Christening Date:?tab?16 Apr 1747
    Christening Place:?tab?BONHILL,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
    Father's Name:?tab?John Mcechny
    Mother's Name:?tab?Isobel Lindsay


    FamilySearch ID:
    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCY3-NL7


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John McEchnie was born in 1715 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Jun 1715 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (son of John McEchnie and Jenat Ewine); died about 1748 in Scotland.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: John McEchny
    • _UID: A1E2416773DD4661A0515E7DF18BAEC8E084

    Notes:

    (Research):?b?Clan MacFarlane
    ?/b?
    On 23rd July 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, son of James 'The Old Pretender' landed on the Isle of Eriskay off the west coast of Scotland. This was the start of the 'Forty-Five' Jacobite Rebellion. The following events culminated in the last major battle to be fought on British soil? Culloden.

    1688?tab?Nov?tab?'The Glorious Revolution'. Following the invasion from Holland by William of Orange, James II, the Catholic King of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, flees to France.
    1689?tab?27 July?tab?Battle of Killliekrankie. Supporters of James II, the Jacobites, led by Viscount Dundee defeat a Protestant Covenanter army.
    21 Aug?tab?Jacobites attempt a rising at Dunkeld, Scotland.
    1690?tab?1 July?tab?William of Orange defeats James II and his Jacobite supporters at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
    1691?tab?12 July?tab?Irish Jacobites defeated at the Battle of Aughrim.
    Aug?tab?William of Orange (pictured below) offers a pardon to all Jacobites in the Scottish Highlands who swear allegiance by year-end.
    William of Orange WKPD

    1692?tab?Jan?tab?King William III issues an order to discipline the Highland Scots.
    13 Feb?tab?The Glencoe Massacre. After the MacDonald chief was late talking his oath to King William, members of the Campbell clan killed 38 members of the MacDonald clan at Glencoe.
    1696?tab?Feb?tab?A Jacobite plot to murder King William III was uncovered.
    March?tab?Jacobite invasion scare.
    1701?tab?12 June?tab?Act of Settlement passed by Parliament, ensured that if William III and Princess Anne (later Queen Anne) should die without heirs, the succession to the throne should pass to Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of James I, and to her heirs, if they were Protestants. The house of Hanover, which ruled Great Britain from 1714, owes its claim to this act.
    6 Sept?tab?Death of the deposed James II. Louis XIV of France recognises his son as James III, later known as the 'Old Pretender'.
    1708?tab?23 March?tab?A French naval squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land the Old Pretender on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh.
    1715?tab?6 Sept?tab?Start of 'the Fifteen'. Following the accession of King George I, a Jacobite rebellion started in Braemar in Scotland.
    13 Nov?tab?The Scottish Jacobites were defeated at the Battle of Sheriffmuir.
    Jacobite rebels HUK

    14 Nov?tab?A Scottish and English Jacobite force was defeated near Preston in northwest England.
    22 Dec?tab?The Old Pretender lands at Peterhead in northeast Scotland, joining Jacobites at Perth before returning to France on 4 Feb 1716.
    1722?tab?24 Sept?tab?The Atterbury Plot. The Bishop of Rochester, Francis Atterbury, a Jacobite leader was arrested and later exiled.
    1745?tab?23 July?tab?Start of the 'Forty-Five'. Prince Charles Edward, son of James and also known as the 'Young Pretender' (pictured below), landed on Eriskay Island off the west coast of Scotland.
    Bonnie Prince Charlie WKPD

    19 Aug?tab?With support from some of the Catholic MacDonalds, Charles 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' was able to gather his men at Glenfinnan. There the standard was raised and his father was proclaimed King James III and VIII.
    11 Sept?tab?Jacobites capture Edinburgh.
    21 Sept?tab?Jacobites defeat a British force at the Batlle of Prestonpans and move south into England.
    Jacobite with Flag HUK

    4 Dec?tab?Jacobites reach Derby, just 150 miles from London. Due to lack of support Lord George Murray and the other chiefs advise Charles to return to Scotland and wait for French help.
    18 Dec?tab?Arguably the last 'battle' to take place on English soil, the Clifton Moor Skirmish saw the retreating Jacobites meet the Duke of Cumberland's forces at Clifton in Penrith. Twelve Jacobites and fourteen of the Duke's men were killed, with the English being buried in the Clifton churchyard and the Scots under an oak tree (known locally as the Rebel Tree), where a plaque still remains.
    Jacobite Battle HUK

    1746?tab?17 Jan?tab?Back in Scotland the Jacobites fail to capture Stirling Castle, but then defeat General Henry Hawley's army at the Battle of Falkirk Muir.
    18 Feb?tab?Withdrawing ever further north, the Jacobites capture Inverness. They stay there for 2 months. Meanwhile a government army, led by the king's younger son, Prince William Duke of Cumberland, was catching them up.
    16 April?tab?Against the advice of his chiefs, Charles lined up the Jacobite army ? hungry and tired ? on the flat moor of Culloden. It was to be the last major battle fought on British soil. In less than an hour Cumberland's cannon destroyed the military threat of Jacobitism.

    20 Sept?tab?Charles fled Culloden Moor with a reward of ?30,000 on his head and after many adventures, he eventually escaped on a ship to France.
    1766?tab?1st Jan?tab?Death of the Old Pretender.
    1788?tab?31 Jan?tab?Death of the Young Pretender.
    1807?tab?13 July?tab?Death of Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, younger brother of the Young Pretender and the last Stuart in the male line.

    Christened:
    Name:?tab?John Mcechnie
    Gender: Male
    Christening Date:?tab?17 Jun 1715
    Christening Place: BONHILL,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
    Father's Name: John Mcechnie
    Mother's Name: Jenat Ewine

    Children:
    1. Janet "Jonat" McEchny was born in Sep 1744 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Sep 1744 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    2. 1. Alexander McEchny was born in Apr 1747 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Apr 1747 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    3. Margaret McEchny was born in May 1748 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 12 May 1748 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John McEchnie was born in 1678 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 26 Nov 1678 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (son of James McEchnie and Elizabeth McEchnie); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 9F1B14F1C47F48719D468D9F4ABD08FAD3EC

    Notes:

    Christened:
    MCECHNIE
    JOHN
    JAMES MCECHNIE/ELIZABETH MCECHNIE
    M
    26/11/1678
    493/
    10 13
    Bonhill

    John married Jenat Ewine on 14 May 1709 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Jenat Ewine

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Jenat Ewing
    • _UID: 57414842946847DBB032BCD523D7B680E3D6

    Notes:

    Married:
    ame:?tab?John Mcechnie
    Gender:?tab?Male
    Marriage Date:?tab?14 May 1709
    Marriage Place:?tab?Bonhill,Dunbarton,Scotland
    Spouse:?tab?Jenat Ewine
    FHL Film Number:?tab?1041982

    Children:
    1. James McEchnie was born in 1710 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 6 Jul 1710 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    2. William McEchnie was born in 1711 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 14 Oct 1711 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    3. Jenat McEchnie was born in 1713 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 1 Oct 1713 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    4. 2. John McEchnie was born in 1715 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 17 Jun 1715 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; died about 1748 in Scotland.
    5. Donald McEchnie was born in 1717 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 2 Jun 1717 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    6. Helen McEchnie was born in 1719 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Jan 1718/19 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  James McEchnie was born in 1713 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 13 Dec 1713 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (son of McEchnie, son of Donald McEchnie and Helen McEchnie); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 64FFF81BC49545ED943D091BE71F330E3D33

    Notes:

    Christened:
    MCECHNIE
    JAMES
    DONALD MCECHNIE/HELEN MCECHNIE
    M
    13/12/1713
    493/
    10 135
    Bonhill
    Vi

    James married Elizabeth McEchnie about 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth McEchnie

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • _UID: 8E89087A8FA1494D9A4EBA3B0BF627FA5E82

    Children:
    1. 4. John McEchnie was born in 1678 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 26 Nov 1678 in Bonhill Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; and died.
    2. Margaret McEchnie was born on 13 Oct 1680; and died.




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