Looking for info: Janet Orr 19/10/1815 Ayr and Frederick Mcpherson (writer)

[Alan of Kaslo]

Big blank spot. Witness son Hugh did not even mention his name...

[chempat]

Proposed death of Alexander McPherson:

Major Alexr McPherson  age 62 on 20/03/1842 Ayr

[Neale1961]

Have you seen this about Fred. Ad. McPherson in Australia?
https://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=101284

edited:Keep scrolling down the page - there is a wealth of detail.

[Neale1961]

From the Melbourne Argus 1863

Death notice for Frederick Adolphus McPHERSON/MacPHERSON on 20 JUL 1863 at his residence (Southey Street, St. Kilda). Son of the late Major Alexander McPHERSON, 2nd West India Regiment.

See separate notice is this list for his father's death (in 1842 at Ayr, Scotland). Parentage is confirmed in the banns OPR from St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh.

[chempat]

In London 13th September 1818 Neal (gent. of College Street) and Sarah McPherson have baptised James Malcolm, 1810, Maria Louisa, 1812, Frederick Adolphus, 1814, and Charles Archibald, 1816.

(Original on Ancestry from London C of E births and baptisms.)
Is Neal an alternative, ever, for Alexander?
As 4 children being baptised at same time, possible implication that they were born abroad....

[chempat]

You could try searching the London Gazette for Alexander MacPherson, as details should be in there if he was a Major.  Possibly do a general search, not specify London nor Edinburgh editions.

e.g.
In 1803
Inverness and Fort George Battalion
Cantray Company.
Alexander MacPherson, Gent, to be Lieutenant.

[Neale1961]

Alexander Major McPherson also has 2 daughters Helen and Sarah who marry at St. Cuthberts Edinburgh.
I cannot find birth records for these Girls, and if he was in the army they may have been born abroad.

I found Alexander Major in the 1841 census in the Greenwich Hospital.

Have run out of time at the moment - will look more later.

ADDED - I am not sure he was a major now, as in army rank. His name appears as Alexander Major McPherson.

[loobylooayr]

Hi again

There is a Sarah McPherson   aged 55     Independent  born England on the 1841 Census in Ayr at Wellington Square. She's with an Emily McPherson (most likely her daughter ) aged 15 also born in England and 3 servants.

Looby

Added - the Courthouse and prison was in Wellington Square. The court still sits in the court building there.

[chempat]

Yes, I also wondered if he was using Major as a middle name, not as a rank. 

However, London Gazette February 1798, Alexander MacPherson promoted to Major

HIS MAJESTY has been pleased to. appoint the under mentioned Officers of the East India Companies Forces to take Rank, by Brevet, in His Majesty's Army in the East Indies only, as follows.
Commisions dated the first Day of January, 1798. ....