GORDON, Alexander of Hillside of Polquhyte 1 2 3Another name for Alexander was GORDOUN, Alexander.4 User ID: W879. General Notes: "Alexander of Hillside of Polquhyte. He is sometimes called the second, sometimes the third son. On August 10, 1630, George Gordon of Newton, having infeft his son Alexander in 'Hilsyid of Pulquhyt,' with reservation to himself of the reversion, now discharges the said reversion in favour of his said son Alexander (written with his own hand). On Novembers, 1650, at Auchmull, Alexander Gordon, 'second lawful sone on lyf to George Gordon of Newton,' consents to the provisions of Anna Sibbald's (his sister-in-law) matrimonial contract ; witnessed before James Gordon of Rothiemay, Mr. Thomas Smart of Reidhill, Alexander Gordon at the mill of Avochie, and James Troup, notary public. On May 11, 1677, Alexander Gordon, 'third lau. sone to deceist George Gordon, some tyme of Newton,' having sold 'the lands of Pulquhyt callit the Hillsyde' to Robert Forbes, Forbes having disponed these lands and others to Mr. Alexander Davidson of Cairnbrogie, advocate, and his sons, Mr. Alexander Davidson and James, now assigns to them the said Alexander Gordon's disposition of the said lands. ....... The following statement perhaps refers to this Alexander : 'Alexander Gordon in Culsalmond and James Elphinstone of Warthill supplicate the Presbytery to be relieved from excommunication, May 23, 1650" (ibid., p. 308)." (page 315) Alexander married Anna LEITH, daughter of John LEITH 4th of Harthill, 'the violent laird' and Jean FORBES, about 1652.1 2 (Anna LEITH was born about 1630 and died after 1661.) Marriage Notes: "Alexander Gordon married Anne Leith, the heiress of Harthill (Newton MS.), about |
1 e-books, Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch by John Davidson (1878).
2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Newton by J.M. Bulloch assisted by D. Wimberley.
3 e-books, The Leiths of Harthill : the story of some turbulent lairds and a royalist martyr by F.L. Bickley (1937).
4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
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