DUNCAN, Isobel (DNA Linked) ²

   Other names for Isobel were DUNCAN, Isabel,³ DUNCAN, Isabella ⁴ and GORDON, Isabella.⁴

   User ID: B233.

  General Notes:

Old Parish Register
Botriphnie Parish Banffshire
Baptisms

"Dec 24 1739
Duncan & Taylor
Robert Duncan in Newburgh with his spouse Margaret Taylor had a child baptised called Isobel, James Stuart, Arthur George, Isabel Stuart & Isobel Duncan in Towiemore witnesses"


From gravestone in Rothes cemetery, Scotland:

"Erected
in memory of
JAMES GORDON late tenementer in Rothes
who died 28th January 1822 aged 89 years
Also of his spouse ISABEL DUNCAN
who died 16th July 1827 aged 86 years" ²

Isobel married James GORDON in Pitcraigie, DNA Linked, son of John GORDON In Collargreen and Elspet ANDERSON, between 1772 and 1774.¹ (James GORDON in Pitcraigie, DNA Linked was baptised on 31 October 1731 in Aberlour parish, Banffshire, Scotland,⁵ died on 28 January 1822 in Rothes parish, Moray, Scotland and was buried in 1822 in Rothes Old Churchyard, Rothes, Moray, AB38 7AA Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

No record of a marriage between this couple has been found as yet.

In August 1772 a son John Gordon was baptised in Mortlach parish to this couple and was recorded as their 'natural child'. In August 1774 James Gordon was baptised in Mortlach parish and Isobel Duncan was recorded as the wife of the child's father, James Gordon. It seems, then, that for the present, the best we can conclude is that James Gordon and Isabella Duncan married after the birth of their son John and before the birth of their son James.

In January 1779 their son Peter was baptised. One of the sponsors was James Duncan of Allbeg, or Aultbeg, which was in the parish of Aberlour. Assuming that this man was a relative of Isabella and that she too came from that parish, and would have been likely to marry there it is interesting to consult the OPR marriages for the parish. According to the Genuki online tables for Church Records for marriages in Aberlour, volume 145/1 for Aberlour covers 1708 to 1774, at which month is not stated, and volume 145/2 begins at 1776 and finishes at 1819. It is just possible that the marriage which we believe may have taken place in this, or another neighbouring, parish slipped through the space between one volume and another.

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