McGONIGAL, Elizabeth Cotton weaver ^{3 4 5}

   Another name for Elizabeth was McGONIGALL, Eliza.⁶

  General Notes:

1891 census: cotton weaver; address 58 Clyde Street, Anderston, Glasgow ^{5 8}

Elizabeth married.^{1 2}

  Marriage Notes:

"His (Thomas Gordon's) first wife was Janet Brodie, sister of Alexander Brodie of Brodie. She evidently had provision by a bond over Monaughty, and during her married life occupied the house, and so he would have been styled 'in Monaughty'. A deed of exoneration dated at Brodie on October 19, 1683, and recorded in the Elgin Commissary Records on November 3, 1683, contains the following statement:

'I, Alexander Gordone, eldest son to Thomas Gordone, brother to the Laird of Lismore, for myself and as taking burden on me for Williame Gordone, my brother german, onlie children procreat betwixt my said father and Janet Brodie, our mother, be thir presents grant me to have received compleat satisfaction from my said father of the hail soumes providit by the contract of marriage past betwixt my said father and mother to the children of that marriage'.

Janet Brodie died September 20, 1666 (AIves Register of Deaths)."

from Lesmoir




"Thomas Gordon in Cloves - or Monauchty - in the parish of Alves, near Elgin, was the third son of Sir William Gordon, third Baronet of Lesmoir, and his wife, Christian Walker. He was twice married - first, to Janet Brodie, who died in 1666, survived by two sons, Alexander and William; and, secondly, at Aberdeen, on 1st July, 1668, to Helen Seton"

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs ^{1 2}