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- Information from
South Alabama Roots and Branches
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marjoeal
by Mary Stearnes Henley
Death: 27 AUG 1687 in New Kent Co. VA
Death: 27 APR 1686 in Charles Parish, VA
Contributed: Son: Alexander Fleming, b.1669, Charles Parish, York, Virginia, U.S.A. d. 1711. Source: Ancestral file 858J-5H, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Ancestral file (R) (Copyright) (C)1987,June 1998,data as of 5 Jan.1998
- (Research):I have removed a previous entry which showed John to be the son of Captain Alexander Fleming and Elizabeth Anderson.
The following is supplied by Ron Goodman:
Based on the actual christening record found for him, it appears he was son of a William Fleming of Glasgow, and probably the grandson of Malcolm Fleming, the 2nd son Sir John Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigton.
He could NOT be the son of Alexander Fleming whose wife was Elspeth Anderson. Re: PID: PMJB-V5S. That Alexander Fleming was born ca 1620-21, and married Elspeth Anderson on 7 December 1643 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. They had three daughters born between 1644 and 1648 in Glasgow, and this Capt. John Fleming was born 10-11 years before they married. That Alexander Fleming died before 1659, when his widow Elspeth Anderson re-married to Robert McClae in Glasgow, and she had 5 more children with him between 1650 and 1657. Re: PID: GG8H-W5J.
He could NOT have been the son of Sir John Fleming 3rd Earl of Wigtown, because Sir John had a different son John Fleming, who was later the 4th Earl of Wigtown, and who died in 1668 in Scotland and was never in America.
He could NOT have been a son of Capt. Alexander Fleming and Ursula Browne (nee Elliot), widow of John Browne. They did not marry until about 1657 in Virginia, after her first husband died in 1656. re: PID: LCPZ-7SH.
If he was a son of any Alexander Fleming, and born in Scotland, then it would have had to have been by a currently unknown and unidentified wife, who he would have had to marry about 1632 or earlier. However, while possible, this theory has never been supported by any original sources or proof of another marriage or children to be found in Scotland.
It is also doubtful that Capt. Alexander Fleming (PID: GDJS-2R3) and the one who married Elspeth Anderson in Glasgow, Scotland on 7 December 1643 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (PID: GG8H-ZMZ) are the same person, as there is no mention of a wife Elizabeth or any of the three daughters he had with Elspeth Anderson in Glasgow between 1644 and 1648, having ever come to Virginia.
There were so many Alexander Flemings in western Scotland, in and around Glasgow (County Lanarkshire), in Sterlingshire, and as far east as Fife, that is is impossible to identify a specific one who could have been the father of Capt. John Fleming. For example, it could have been an unknown son of the Alexander Fleming, born 1595 to John Fleming, 4th son of the John Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigtown: (PID: G87S-RTP), for who we have not yet found a source for wife or children.
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1633 - 1687 (54 years)