GORDON, James

  General Notes:

'William Gordon married, at least as earlv as 1601, Helen Garden, daughter of David Garden of that ilk (Great Seal).
On December 31, 1642, she was described as "wife of William Gordon of Arradowl, formerly of Knockespock." She then renounced her rights in the lands of Knockespock, Over and Nether, in favour of George Gordon of Knockespock, the commission being carried out by John Gordon of Carnefeild as Sheriff Depute in that part. Among the witnesses was James Gordon, fiar of Arradoull, and his father's illegitimate brother James (Littlejohn's " Aberdeenshire Sheriff Court," ii. 506).'

from Gordons of Cairnfield