Alexander Macrae

A resident planter, nephew of Colin Macrae (q.v.), and author of A Manual of Plantership in British Guiana (1856), dying at Southampton in 1860.  

1. He registered enslaved people in 1834, and in 1845 was described as the attorney of the partners in John Campbell Senior & Co.

2. The Alexander C. Macrae in the 1881 census aged 64, born Demerara 'Physician Edinboro', living at 119 Westbourne  [Road?] with his wife Louisa (born in Calcutta) was the son of Colin Macrae (q.v.) and the cousin of Alexander MacRae of this entry.  

T71/886 British Guiana claim nos. 1162, 1165 and 1171. T71/887 British Guiana claim nos. 2163 and 2317A&B (Endeavour); David Alston, Slaves & Highlanders a href="http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=300467">http://www.spanglefish.com/slavesandhighlanders/index.asp?pageid=300467 [accessed 26/07/2015]; David Dobson, Scots in Latin America which gives death at Southampton 31/05/1860.

1. Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database on-line], British Guiana, 1834. London Gazette, Issue 20513, 30/09/1845, p. 2972.

2. 1881 census online.