Alexander Couts

Spouse	Children
Margaret Hume (Family Record)	Mary Couts Elisabeth Couts Charlotte Couts Grizel Couts Allan Couts Charles Couts John Couts Eupham Couts Isobel Couts Margaret Couts

Event	Date	Details
Birth	27 Mar 1709	Place: Edinburgh Source: OPR Edinburgh Quality: Primary Source Text: Thomas Couts merchant and Isoble Greig his spouse A S N Alexander w william Harvie peutherer and magnus Black mert burgesses Source Notes: Note on witnesses - Black, Magnus, mt. B. and G. by r. of admission of Bailie Archd Rule, gratis 12 June 1706 There is birth of a Magnus Black in Corstorphine, 7 Nov 1680, to Magnus Black and Janet Ramsay, a marriage of a Magnus Black in Edinburgh Parish 22 Dec 1681 to Margaret Smaile, and children born to Magnus Black and Agnes Waldie, in Edinburgh parish including another Magnus bap. 16 Sep 1707 and again a Magnus bap. 10 Sep 1710. This may though have been another Magnus Black (unless he changed his trade) according to Edinburgh Guildry, as an entry in the Dean of Guild's accounts has for 1732, 'Dec 13th... to Agnes Waldie, relict of Magnus Black, vintner burges, 5s., of supply.' Harvie, Wm. B., putherer, as p. to John Syd, putherer, B (22 oct 1662) 26 June 1672.
Death
Baptism	27 Mar 1709	Place: Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh
Burgess	7 Sep 1737	Notes: Coutts, Alexr., tailor, B., by r. of fr. Thomas C., mt., B. and G. 7 Sept. 1737

Notes:: Note: this may refer to a later Alexander Coutts, tailor. (From Ancestry records)

Name: Alexander Coutts
Dates: 1751-1775
1751-1760
1761-1770
LOCATION:
Town: Edinburgh Edinburgh
Occupation:
Occupation: taylor
Gender: Male
Address:
Address: Werriston'S Close
&Nbsp;Town: Edinburgh
Source Date: 1774
Source Info:
Listed in, [Edinburgh, 1774] Williamson's Directory for the City of Edinburgh, Canongate, Leith & Suburbs, from 25th May 1774, to the 25th May 1775 containing An Alphabetical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Members of the College of Justice, Public and Private Gentlemen, Merchants, and other eminent Traders; Mechanics, and all Persons in public Business; where, at one view, you have a plain Direction, pointing out the Streets, Wynds, Closes, Lands, and other Places of their Residence, in and about this Metropolis. Together with Separate Lists of the Magistrates, Court of Session, and Court of Exchequer; the Constables of Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith, Carriers, &c. [Price One Shilling.], 1774, WILLIAMSON, Peter, Edinburgh. Printed by and for Peter Williamson, and sold at his Printing-house in Swan’s Close, a little above the City Guard, North-side of the Street; and by all the Booksellers in Edinburgh and Leith

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