DUFF, John of Pitchaish ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"John of Pitchaish seems to have lived for many years on the farm of that name on the estate of Ballindalloeh in Banffshire. Letters from him from that place are to be found among the correspondence of Robert Grant, factor for Ballindalloch, in the MS. Room at the British Museum, and are wrongly indexed as being from his first cousin, John Duff, merchant, and Provost of Elgin." (page 466)


"John Duff of Pitchaish is thus briefly alluded to in Baird's history of the Duffs :

'There is a sister of the present James Gordon of Latterfurry (Letterfourie), married with one of the name of Duff, a respectable farmer; they have five sons, whom their uncle is educating, and by his interest and money providing for them in the army, navy, mercantile and other genteel employments.'

This, of course, explains how three of the sons came to enter the Indian army, and the other two a Gordon house of business." (page 468)

from Book of the Duffs ²

John married Mary GORDON, daughter of James GORDON 5th of Letterfourie, Jacobite 1715 and Grizell DUNBAR, on 21 August 1739 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary GORDON was born about 1716 and died in April 1782 in Foggyloan, Auchintoul, Banffshire, Scotland ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"DUFF
JOHN
MARY GORDON/FR547 (FR547)
21/08/1739
164 20 / 41
RATHVEN"

from Index of Marriages




"29 July 1739 John Duff of Craiginach? in Newtown of Alves and Mrs Mary Gordon Letterfuries daur were proclaimed in order to marriage & said marriage solemnized August 21st. [Vol.2 p.38] [Mary Gordon was the daughter of James Gordon of Letterfourie]."

from Rathven Marriages




"John Duff of Pitchaish had married, in 1739, Mary Gordon of Letterfourie.

'John Duff, son of Patrick of Craigienach, contracted matrimony with Mary Gordon, daughter of James Gordon of Letterfourie, 7 Aug. 1739.' (¹Rose MSS., Advocates' Library, Aberdeen)

They had five sons and two daughters. The eldest. James, born 1741, Patrick, Robert, William, and John ; and two daughters, Margaret and Anne who appear to have died unmarried. According to Imlach's History of Banff they had a house in that town, and their brother Robert, who died in 1807, left annuities to both of £25 yearly. John, who lived till 1828, made his will in 1813, and left a legacy to Margaret only, Anne evidently being already dead. Margaret had died in 1822, and therefore did not benefit {Scots Magazine)."

from Book of the Duffs< ^{1 2}