Early life and education. Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816-1888) and Grace Stirling Morton (1848-1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage to Grace, and died ....