BAIRD, Anna

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Anna married John GORDON 5th of Coclarachie, son of George GORDON 4th of Coclarachie and Elizabeth FRASER, 3 and 15 December 1679(contract).¹ (John GORDON 5th of Coclarachie was born about 1648 and died on 8 July 1714.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John Gordon, V. of Coclarachie, the eldest son by the second marriage of George Gordon, IV. of Coclarachie, was a minor when his father died in 1663, and received sasine on Coclarachie in February, 1670. He was a student at King's College, Aberdeen, in 1668 (Fasti Aberd., p. 487). The valuation of Coclarachie in 1696 was £330 6s. 8d. Scots (Poll Book, ii., 271).

He married in December, 1679, Anna, daughter of Sir James Baird of Auchmedden (Appendix X.), by whom he had :

1. George and 2* Alexander alive in 1696 (Poll Book, ii., 271), but died before their father.

3. James, who succeeded to Coclarachie.

4. Christian.

5. Anna, who married in June, 1712, James Lunan, eldest son of Alexander Lunan, M.A., minister of Daviot, Aberdeenshire (Appendix XII.).

6. Isobel.

John Gordon, V. of Coclarachie, died on July 8, 1714."



"Abstract of X.

Instrument of sasine attesting that on December 16, 1679, George Keith of Northfield, as procurator for Anna Baird, daughter of Sir James Baird of Auchmedden, produced a matrimonial contract (dated at Auchmedden and Coclarachie December 3 and 15, 1679, and witnessed as above) between John Gordon of Coclarachie and his mother, Elizabeth Fraser, on the one part, and Sir James Baird of Auchmedden, and James Baird, junior of Auchmedden, his eldest lawful son, and Anna Baird, on the other part, whereby the said John Gordon bound himself to infeft the said Anna Baird, his apparent spouse, in liferent in certain lands of Coclarachie; and that John Symson in Cocklarachie, as bailie, gave sasine in common form in presence of Robert Duncan in Boigheid, John Young, Thomas Skinner, George Mill, Alexander Browster and John Ogston in Cocklarachie; the notary being William Symson."

from Coclarachie ¹