Alexander Dalgliss

- Abt 1685

• Name	Alexander Dalgliss
  Gender	Male
  Legal	1679	Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	On list of fugtives in Lanarkshire
  Occupation	1679	East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Tenant farmer or cottar
  Residence	1679	East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [2, 3]
  	Lickprivick
  Military service	1679	East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [4]
  	Confessed in Galsgow on 14 Oct to have held arms with the rebels when they were at Kilbryde. May have been at Bothwell Bridge
  Role	1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Transported prisoner - died
  Legal	Abt 15 May 1685	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  	Refused the oath of allegiance and sent to Burntisland to join the Covenanter prisoners. Held in Glasgow Tolbooth.
  Imprisonment	24 May 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland
  	Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August
  Imprisonment	Abt Jul 1685	Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland   [5]
  	One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture
  Departure	5 Sep 1685	Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [6]
  	Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - banished
  Title Suffix	in Lickprivick
  Name	Alexander Dalgleish  [2, 5]
  Origin	East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [2]
  Death	Abt Oct 1685	At sea
  	En route to Perth Amboy
  Person ID	I44596	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Legal - On list of fugtives in Lanarkshire - 1679 - Lanarkshire, Scotland Occupation - Tenant farmer or cottar - 1679 - East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland Residence - Lickprivick - 1679 - East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland Military service - Confessed in Galsgow on 14 Oct to have held arms with the rebels when they were at Kilbryde. May have been at Bothwell Bridge - 1679 - East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland Role - Transported prisoner - died - 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Legal - Refused the oath of allegiance and sent to Burntisland to join the Covenanter prisoners. Held in Glasgow Tolbooth. - Abt 15 May 1685 - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Dunnottar Castle until c12 August, then marched to Leith arriving 17 August - 24 May 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Imprisonment - One of 15 Covenanter prisoners who escaped and were recaptured and subjected to torture - Abt Jul 1685 - Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland Departure - Aboard the Henry and Francis. Prisoner - banished - 5 Sep 1685 - Leith, Midlothian, Scotland Origin - - East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC 39/2. [S3611] Privy Council of Scotland, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 3rd Series, XI, pp289-294. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;), JC39/2. [S3526] National Records of Scotland, (Location: Edinburgh;). JC39/57/10 [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p19. [S3610] Anderson, James, The Black Book of Kincardineshire, p10.