Wife #1, Jane ? ,
I found record of christening of 1 son, I suspect the eldest, Alexander Andrew, Christened 16 Sept 1827, St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London, I cannot trace him in England or that he emigrated to Australia with the family,
I presume she died before 1833

Jane Findlater was born in Gamrie in 1806, now called Gardenstown, on Gamrie Bay near Banff, the youngest daughter of 5 children of Alexander Findlater and Ann Herd..
Alexander James Jamieson married Jane Findlater on 6 Aug 1826 in Marnoch, Banff, Aberdeenshire.
It was very unusual in those days for people to marry outside of their local district, so I wonder if the Jamiesons came from this area also. Gamrie was a relatively prosperous farming area, and as Alexander Jamieson's father James Jamieson was shown as a farmer on the Jamieson/Aiken marriage certificate, it is possible his farm was in this area.

There is a CD in existence with the church(kirk) records which cover the Findlaters et al.

When I have the Findlater file up to date I shall send you a copy.

I have still found only 2 children from the Jamieson/Findlater marriage and the sequence seems to be
6 Aug 1826 Marriage of AJ and JF in Gamrie, Scotland
16 Sept 1827 Christening of Alexander Andrew Jamieson in St.Dunstan's Stepney, London
4 April 1830 Christening of John Pirie Jamieson in St. Dunstan's
26 Sept 1833 Marriage of AJ and Mary Wilson in St.Dunstan's
18 June 1834 Christening of Mary Jamieson in St.Dunstan's.

If the normal pattern of those days was followed, Mary Wilson was brought in as the nanny/governess for the children, and then became AJ's second wife, so poor Jane Findlater would have died between 1830 and 1833, I haven't found any record yet, but will keep looking.
The gap between 1827 and 1830 and 1833 could mean other children were born which we haven't traced yet.
Also AAJ and JPJ seem to have disappeared, they didn't come to Australia in 1853, probably they married and led a separate life, but they could have gone back to their mother's family in Gamrie, lots of possibilities.

regards Crichton

My Alexander Jamieson was a sea captain, who sailed between UK and Australia from the 1830's until he emigrated to Adelaide in 1852, and died in 1868, aged 79. I am still trying to contact descendants of his first family, mother Mary Anderson, none of whom accompanied him to Australia.
My research from UK BDM cd-rom at Mortlock Library, Adelaide, source batch file c119066, shows he was christened at Aberdeen Old Machar 12/1/1789, naming his father as Alexander Jamieson also.
It is possible that his eldest son was named Alexander and is your ancestor, but it requires more searching of the Aberdeen parish records to identify the children of the first marriage. It is a long-term goal of mine to do this,but it is very time consuming.
regards Crichton

I am looking for descendants of the family of Helen Aiken,b 6 April 1814 in Aberdeen There was a Captain Jamieson who was on a ship called “Dowson” enroute to
> Quebec in 1824 that was shipwrecked, Alexander and 5 of his crew were
> saved by a ship named the British Queen
> www.theshipslist.com/ships/arrivals/1842b.htm
> you should be
> able to bring it up and read about it.