Married 3 June 1805 at Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland. Alexander Anderson was the son of John Anderson, farmer in Dothan north of Chapel House, Abbotshall Parish, Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland. His wife Cecilia was the daughter of Henry and Janet (nee Hutchison) Oliphant. Nine of their ten children arrived with them, son Henry having arrived Swan River c1830 and then to Van Diemens Land. Also in the party was Thomas Anderson husband of Alex and Cecilia's daughter Janet (Jessie) who later married George Hardie in Victoria. Based on the goods and number of people they brought to the Colony, Alex and son-in-law Thomas were granted 6,900 acres at Mt Anderson, Toodyay (Newcastle), also 400 acres at Bassendean. In 1835 and 1836 Alex and Thomas applied for an exchange of land on the other side of the Avon River. In 1836 Alex senior and Thomas with Drummond and Whitfield explored a more direct route from Upper Swan to Newcastle via Woorilow Brook and Jimperding Hill, which was very rough and steep for horses, let alone carts. They followed the Avon River six miles to their grants which they looked over and defined their boundaries. A three day trip. As they were far from protection of the military at York and the few stock arriving at Swan River were being killed by dingoes and natives, no one settled on these grants at first, but they had to make improvements to gain their titles. In 1836 Alex Snr went to Van Diemens Land to buy stock, taking daughters Jane and Cecilia. While there he joined George Russell on an expedition to Victoria. When he returned to Swan River in 1837 on the 'Eudora' with their sheep, he left Jane and Cecilia with his brothers John and Henry at Thorpe Mill, Bothwell, Van Diemens Land. John was a Master Mariner trading between Swan River and Port Phillip. Thomas and Jessie and three children arrived Hobart, May 1837, and a few months later Alex Snr and Cecilia and the rest of the family followed on the Abeona, joining the others at Thorpe Mill. Later to Port Phillip and Portland District. Eventually many descendants came back to Western Australia. Alex Senior and Cecilia returned to Chapel House, Scotland in 1854, accompanied by son Henry and wife Julia and their Australian born children. Some of them returned to Australia later.