GORDON, Margaret 1
User ID: B396. Margaret married Walter INNES of Auquhorsk, son of James INNES 2nd of Toux and Agnes URQUHART.1 (Walter INNES of Auquhorsk was born about 1540 and died before 1 September 1574 1.) Marriage Notes: "Margaret was married three times (Balbithan MS.). Her first husband was Walter Innes of Auquhorsk, by whom she had a son, Walter, afterwards of Touchis, referred to in the following Royal charter: Margaret next married Patrick GRANT younger, 3rd of Ballindalloch, son of John GRANT 2nd of Ballindalloch and Barbara GORDON, about 1576.1 2 (Patrick GRANT younger, 3rd of Ballindalloch was born about 1539 and died on 8 September 1586.) Marriage Notes: "He (Patrick Grant) was twice married, first, about 1565, to Grissel Grant, daughter of John Grant of Freuchie; and secondly, about 1576, to Margaret Gordon, widow of Walter Innes of Auchroisk, who survived him and married John Gordon, son of Thomas Gordon of Cluny." Margaret next married John GORDON of Cluny, then of Birsemore, son of John GORDON of Cluny (of the First House) and Margaret GORDON.1 (John GORDON of Cluny, then of Birsemore was born about 1558 and died on 24 November 1590.) Marriage Notes: "She (Margaret Gordon) married thirdly John Gordon of Birsemoir, in the parish of Birse, the second son of John Gordon of Cluny : by this marriage she had two sons, Patrick of Birsemoir and John. Patrick married Jean, daughter of Patrick Leslie, Provost of Aberdeen. Her second and third marriages led to some serious results. On Ballindalloch's death, John Grant in Foyness, his brother ... the Tutor (legal guardian) of his son, withheld payment of the rents due to her as his widow, and endeavoured otherwise to wrong her. Upon this her nephew, James Gordon, grandson of Lesmoir, and afterwards first Baronet, took up her quarrel, and went with some of his friends to Ballindalloch to obtain justice for her. Thereupon the Tutor paid up all the arrears due to the lady, except a trifle, which he insisted on retaining. An altercation ensued, in which the servants of both parties took part and came to blows, but they were separated, and James Gordon returned home. Judging that his aunt's interests would be better attended to if she had a husband's protection, he persuaded John Gordon of Birsemoir, brother of Sir Thomas of Cluny, to marry her, the families of Cluny and Lesmoir having been long on an intimate footing. This incensed the Tutor of Ballindalloch so much that he killed one of John Gordon's servants; and in consequence he and such of his servants as harboured or assisted him were declared outlaws and rebels, and the sixth Earl of Huntly got a Commission to apprehend and bring them to justice (Browne's History of the Highlands). The quarrel soon extended to a feud between the Gordons and the Grants." |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Lesmoir by Douglas Wimberley.
2 e-books, The Rulers of Strathspey: A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield by the Earl of Cassillis (1911).
3 e-books, The Chiefs of Grant by William Fraser (1883).
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