This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gV.2ADEB/3800.1.2 Message Board Post: The name Alexander did not come about until the 1400's, but the lineage goes much further to 873 King Godfrey of Scotland. MacAlexander, became Alexander Alexander Lord of the Isles Founder of the House of Alexander. (Alexander MacDonald made war on the King of Scotland and was banished. Alexander, son of Alexander McDonald thus lost his surname and was then known as Alexander, Alexander 1472 and obtained lands from the Argylls and lands of Menstrie.(descendant) Thomas Alexander, found in a record in March 6 1505 as Baron of Menstrie, born and died in Menstrie, Sterling, Scotland.