Celebrating the heritage of the lands our surname derived from.

Myth 1: The fours sons of Alexander Kincaid, Lord Provost of Edinburgh

It has been widely circulated that Alexander Kincaid, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, had four sons who in 1746 fought in a rearguard action after the Battle of Culloden. It is said that they were captured but escaped and fled to Virginia in the United States of America where they became patriarchs of a number of Kincaid lines emanating from there.

Alexander Kincaid, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, is on record as having only one son, Alexander, who succeeded to him in his office. Alexander Kincaid Jr. himself died a single man not long thereafter and his heir was a distant relative, John Kincaid, tenant in Grange. This is illustrated by the following records.