GORDON, Alexander in Burngraynes ¹

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Alexander married Daughter HAY.¹ (Daughter HAY was born about 1585.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander (Gordon), 'in Burngraynes' (so described in the Privy Council Register), took part in the murder of Francis Hay. He was denounced as a rebel in 1616 for attacking Leask of that ilk. He was also prosecuted as a Papist. The most notable events in his career were his attacks on Sir William Keith of Balmure." [....] The next we hear of Alexander Gordon is as an enemy of Sir William Keith of Balmure, for on June 4, 1618, it was reported by Keith to the Privy Council that 'mony insolencyis' had been committed on him by John Gordon of Ardlogie, his brother Alexander in Burnegraynes, and William Gordon of Saphak, 'thair suster sone'. On March 10, 1618, according to Keith's story, the three went armed to the land of Kellie, belonging in liferent to Keith's wife, Dame Margaret Bannerman, rode about in a bragging and insolent manner near to the place where pursuer happened to be staying, and endeavoured to provoke him to come forth." [....]

On June 4, 1618, John Hedderwick in Boddam complained to the Privy Council that on the night of April 4, 1618, Alexander Gordon, brother to the laird of Gight, Johne Sinclair, brother of --- Sinclair of Achannachie, and George Bruce, servitor to the said Alexander, all armed with swords, hagbuts and pistollets, assaulted him at the place of Fortrie, 'shote tua billotis throw his richt thie, and with ane lance ran him throw the same thie'. They then struck him to the ground and wounded him very seriously in the head. Alexander Gordon did not appear before the Council and was put to the horn.

According to the Balbithan MS., Alexander Gordon married a Hay."

from Gight ¹