Alexander Low TURREFF [10198]

  General Notes:

Alexander was a well known clothier/draper with a business at 39 Union St Aberdeen (J Blackhall & Co.) which he took over from his uncle James Blackhall (his mother's brother).

City of Aberdeen Directory 1826/50 describes Alexander as a draper at 33 Union St, living at at Silver St Aberdeen.

He died at Millburn St described as a retired cloth merchant.

Anthony Turreff has watercolour portraits of Alexander, Anne and their two eldest children James and Anne done about 1847/50

  Other Records

1. Census: Scotland, 1861, 39 Upperkirkgate Aberdeen. Alexander is recorded as head of house married aged 54 a woollen draper born St Nicholas Aberdeen.

2. Census: Scotland, 1881, 39 Upperkirkgate Aberdeen. Alexander is recorded as head of house married aged 74 a woollen draper born Aberdeen

Alexander married Anne Campbell MURDOCH [10199] [MRIN: 3398], daughter of William MURDOCH [10218] and Anne OSWALD [10219], on 19 Oct 1841 in Old Machar Aberdeen. (Anne Campbell MURDOCH [10199] was born on 22 Oct 1818 in St Nicholas Aberdeen and died on 9 Jul 1888 in Old Machar Aberdeen.)