Mr Alexander Skene

1621 - 1693  (72 years)

• Name	Alexander Skene
  Title	Mr
  Birth	1621	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Baptism	27 Oct 1621	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Property	20 Jun 1648	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Served heir to his father Robert
  Occupation	1656	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Magistrate
  Property	1657	Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Purchased the lands of Newtyle from Sir Alexander Forbes of Newtyle
  Religion	1669	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [2]
  	Quaker
  Imprisonment	12 Mar 1675/76	Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  	Held in Aberdeen Tolbooth, accused of attending Quaker meetings in his own house and those of Alexander Harper, George Keith and Robert Bruce, and of failing to attend Kirk services
  Title Suffix	of Newtyle
  Name	Alexander Skeine  [3]
  Residence	3 Apr 1677	Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  	Date of release from Aberdeen Tolbooth, on condition to confine himself to his own house
  Property	1680	Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [4]
  	Sold the estate of Newtyle reseving certain liferents to William Gordon
  Occupation	1685
  	Author of "Memorialls for the Government of the Royal-Burghs in Scotland, under the pen-name, "Philopetus, or a lover of Publick Welfare"
  	Skene, Alexander. Memorialls for the Government of the Royal-Burghs in Scotland with Some Overtures Laid before the Nobility and Gentry of Several Shyres in This Kingdom : As Also, a Survey of the City of Aberdeen with the Epigrams of Arthur Iohnstoun, Doctor of Medicine, upon Some of Our Chief Burghs Translated into English. John Forbes, 1685. http://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=eebo-ocm18196182e.
  Death	7 Mar 1692/93	Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [5]
  	Kingswells
  Burial	9 Mar 1692/93	Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [5]
  	Kingswells Quaker Burial Ground
  Person ID	I44862	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family	Lilias Gillespie,   b. 1626, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland d. 21 Apr 1697, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	26 Aug 1646	Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland   [2, 3]
  Children	1. John Skene,   b. Abt 1649, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. Aft 19 Aug 1690, Westampton, Burlington, New Jersey, USA (Age > 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Lilias Skene,   b. 1651, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Christian Skene,   b. 1654, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F31228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1621 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Baptism - 27 Oct 1621 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Marriage - 26 Aug 1646 - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland Property - Served heir to his father Robert - 20 Jun 1648 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Occupation - Magistrate - 1656 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Property - Purchased the lands of Newtyle from Sir Alexander Forbes of Newtyle - 1657 - Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Religion - Quaker - 1669 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Imprisonment - Held in Aberdeen Tolbooth, accused of attending Quaker meetings in his own house and those of Alexander Harper, George Keith and Robert Bruce, and of failing to attend Kirk services - 12 Mar 1675/76 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Residence - Date of release from Aberdeen Tolbooth, on condition to confine himself to his own house - 3 Apr 1677 - Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Property - Sold the estate of Newtyle reseving certain liferents to William Gordon - 1680 - Foveran, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Death - 7 Mar 1692/93 - Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Burial - 9 Mar 1692/93 - Newhills, Aberdeenshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3626] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Name: Oxford University Press; Location: Oxford;), 'Skene, Alexander, of Newtyle', 2004. [S3651] Skene, William Forbes, Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene, p77. [S3608] Marriages (OPR) Scotland, (Name: National Records of Scotland; Location: Edinburgh;), Kirkcaldy 442/10 298. [S3651] Skene, William Forbes, Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene, p78. [S3615] Strath-Maxwell, Archibald, Digest of Quaker births, marriages and burials in Scotland, 1647-1878, (Location: Aberdeen; Date: 1960;), p205.