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DAVIDSON, Thomas Commissary Clerk, Burgess of Aberdeen
(About 1565-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Janet

DAVIDSON, Thomas Commissary Clerk, Burgess of Aberdeen 1 2

  • Born: About 1565
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Janet 1

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  General Notes:

"Alexander Davidson, the Advocate, was the son of Thomas Davidson, a burgess of Aberdeen. He was characterized by Spalding as…'ane good honest man of the Kingis'."

from Clan Davidson Association website 2

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Received: as Guild brother, 27 October 1578, Aberdeen. 3


Thomas married Janet GORDON, daughter of James GORDON of Haddo and Agnes GORDON.1 (Janet GORDON was born about 1582.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (James Gordon) married, secondly, Agnes Gordon, said to have been the daughter of John Gordon of Tillyhilt, and therefore her husband's first cousin, by whom he had .... Janet, married to Thomas Davidson, Commissary Clerk of Aberdeen. She was served heir to her father in certain lands, 11 February 1625."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 Internet Site, Clan Davidson Association 2008 at www.clandavidson.org.uk/trail2/Section_7.pdf.

3 e-mail, N. Hide 28 May 2013.

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