FORBES, Daughter

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Daughter married William GORDON of Cairnfield, Bailie of Enzie, son of John GORDON 3rd of Buckie and Agnes GORDON.¹ (William GORDON of Cairnfield, Bailie of Enzie was born about 1569 and died on 5 January 1632.)

  Marriage Notes:

"THE FIRST SET OF GORDONS OF CAlRNFIELD, 1615-67.

William Gordon, I. of Cairnfield.

The estate of Cairnfield first came into the hands of the Buckie Gordons at least by 1615, and probably before that: and it slipped out of their grasp in 1667.

This line was founded by William Gordon. He was the second son of John Gordon of Buckie, who was killed at the battle of Tillyangus in 1571, and his mother (Agnes?) was a daughter of George Gordon of Beldorney. She seems to have been married either before or after Buckie's deaths for James Ogilvie of Acheeries is described as brother uterine to William and his brother John of Buckie, whom the Balbithan MS. wrongly describes as 'George.' On July 27, 1615, 'Mr' William Gordon of Cairnfield, as executor to the deceased Agnes Gordon, good wife of Buckie, raised an action in the Court of Session against John Gordon of Benholm for payment of £1000 ('Acts and Decreets,' vol. 302, ff. 60, 269). That is the first application I have found to the territorial designation." (page 7)

"According to the Balbithan MS., William Gordon died January 5, 1632. The same authority states that he married three times. His first wife was a daughter of Forbes, laird of Auchintoul. The second was "the goodwife of Skeith," and the third was the goodwife of Findochty, thereafter goodwife of Drainie. The Balbithan MS. names only one son : John Gordon of Cairnfield, by the first wife." (page 8)

from The Gordons of Cairnfield ¹