 They bequeathed the part of the Barony of Bollingshaw named Chapelton to their younger son James, who never married and died in 1857.Charles the father died in 1847 and his eldest son, also called Charles Somerville McAlester, born in 1828 and married to Mary Brabazon, inherited the Kennox estate.It is recorded by Dobie that the older Charles was an eccentric and was one of the last of the country squires of old in his attitudes and behaviour.