Lt. Col.
Alexander
of Whitehills
Agnew
Born about in Lochnaw Castle, Leswalt, Wigtownshire, Scotland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Patrick Agnew
and Margaret (Kennedy) Agnew
Brother of
Agnes Agnew, Andrew Agnew M.P., John Agnew, James Agnew, Rosina (Agnew) Cathcart and Patrick Agnew Jr.
Husband of
Marian Brisbane
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Susan (Degarris) Agnew
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 85
in Wigtownshire, Scotland [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander "of Whitehalls" Agnew, born 1609 in Lochnow Castle, Leswalt, Wigtownshire, Scotland, son of Father Sir Patrick Agnew, 8th Hereditary Sheriff of Galloway, and 1st Bt. b. Abt 1578, d. 1661, Lochnaw (Age ~ 83 years) Mother Margaret Kennedy, bur. Leswalt. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Earl of Galloway's Regiment.
Children:
- Andrew Agnew, 2nd of Whitehills. 1647–1738 • KT7V-R6C
- John Agnew 1640–1723 • KT7V-R47
- James Agnew, 1645 Balloo County Down, Ulster, Ireland – 1681 Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland • LZLP-RTT
9th Sheriff of Galloway. Galloway, lying between England and Lowland Scotland, and in sight of Ireland—from the Doon of Kildonan the Roman legionaries in the year 79 "gazed with wonder at the serrated outline of the Mourne Mountains, which, like giant's fingers, seemed to beckon them onwards to new worlds across the stormy waters," was for generations a cockpit for various races—Scots, Picts, Irish, Saxons, and Norsemen.
Alexander; died 1695 in Whitehills, Scotland
Sources
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 46. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
- The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; their "forebears" and friends, their courts and customs of their times, with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, the baronage and place-names of the province by Agnew, Andrew, Sir, 8th bart., 1818-1892
- A History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway - by SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART., M.P. EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1864 , PRINTED BY R. AXP n. CLARK, ElUNBITRfJH.
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