BAIRD, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Dr James GORDON 3rd of Fechil, son of John GORDON younger, 2nd of Fechil and Rachel SANDILANDS.¹ (Dr James GORDON 3rd of Fechil was born about 1672 and died in August 1723 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Katharine Douglas, wife of Major James Mercer, and her brother, Sylvester Douglas of Fechil, were the children of Katharine Gordon of Fechil, who succeeded her father, James Gordon of Fechil, M.D. 17 July 1741, who was a descendant of Robert Gordon of Straloch and Pitlurg. This Dr Gordon's wife was Margaret Baird, daughter of James Baird of Auchmeddan : and their 3 daughters married as follows :

1. Jean married Rev. John Gordon D.D. of St Paul's, Aberdeen.

2. Katharine married John Douglas, son of Sylvester Douglas of Whiteriggs, Co. of Kincardine.

3. Mary married James Irvine of Kingcaussie.

These 3 sisters were served heirs portioners special in the lands of Fechil on 17 July 1741 (see Temple's Than, of Fermartyn p.p. 505-6), from which several of the details about the Fechil family have been collected."

from Later Gordons of Beldorney ¹