-Their is a story that John Fyfe, father of Alexander Adams, was a a Scottish Earl. Adams claimed his father John was the Earl of Fyfe. Court Records from Scotland show that there was an Earl of Fyfe (Fife) in existence at least until 1864. At that time, the current Earl was engaged in a series of land disputes with the Duffs, whose ancestors (the MacDuffs) were an earlier line of Earls of Fyfe.