BANNERMAN, Elizabeth ^{2 3 4}

   Other names for Elizabeth were BANNERMAN, Margaret ⁴ and BENNERMAN, Daughter of Laird of Watterton, now Laird of Elsick.¹

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  General Notes:

"Alexander and Margaret Reid had issue: Patrick, who died young; George, and Elizabeth."

from Scotweb website ⁴

  Research Notes:

WHICH GORDON?

"An earlier Bannerman, Elizabeth, the daughter of Alexander Bannerman and Margaret Reid ... married a Gordon of Lesmoir in 1580. This Gordon took part in the murder of the Bonnie Earl of Moray and the burning of Donibristle in 1592 and was at the Battle of Glenlivet on 4 October 1594."

from Scotweb website

Notes:

1]
It is doubtful if Elizabeth Bannerman married, as his second wife, Alexander Gordon III of Lesmoir. House of Gordon does not include her as a wife, only mentioning Marjorie or Mariot Forbes as the mother of all Alexander's children. House of Gordon does state that a daughter of Bannerman of Waterton married John Gordon of Cairnborrow and Edenglassie.(see Marriage Notes)

2]
In any case, it was Alexander III of Lesmoir's son James Gordon, not Alexander, who was mainly involved in the Donibristle murder:
"1592, February 7. - On this date occurred the burning of Donibristle and the murder of the Earl of Moray, for which James Gordon, apparent of Lesmoir, and others were ordered to be apprehended when the Privy Council met at Aberdeen, March 9, 1592; the Earl Marischal being appointed Crown Commissioner for the Shires of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, with power to apprehend them Privy Council Register). On March 16 the persons put to the horn on the above date were relaxed by the King, with the advice of his Council at Edinburgh, James Gordon, of Lesmoir, being one of them (ibid,). He got a remission, March 18, 1593 (Great Seal, v., No. 2259). His father's first cousin, Captain John Gordon, of the Gight family, was mortally wounded in this fray, taken prisoner, and, in spite of his condition, executed in Edinburgh." (House of Gordon by John M. Bulloch volume 2)

3]
Elizabeth Bannerman married as his first wife John Gordon of Cairnborrow and Edenglassie; he was accused of complicity in the murder of the 'Bonnie Earl o' Moray' 1592 as a result of which his house was occupied by government soldiers during the Catholic rising two years later. ^{4 5 6}

Elizabeth married John GORDON of Cairnborrow and Edenglassie, son of John GORDON of Cairnborrow and Edinglassie and Bessie GORDON.^{1 2 3} (John GORDON of Cairnborrow and Edenglassie was born about 1553 and died before 6 February 1624 ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (John Gordon married to Bessie Gordon of Buckie) Son John Gordon Laird of Edenglassie and representative of the Family of Cairnborrow married first the Laird of Wattertons daughter Bennerman now Lairds of Elsick, with whom he begat three Sons and two daughters"

from Balbithan MS




"...and that the said Jeane Gordon hir mother wes dochter to Alexr Bannerman of Watertoun." (birth brieve)

from Families of Colt and Coutts




"The last-mentioned John Gordon and his first wife, Elizabeth Bannerman, had sasine on Badinzone (Badenyon), also on Easter and Wester Inverbuchettis in the barony of Kyldrymmie, on 10th September, 1572. In 1573-4 they had an action of removing in the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire against William Anderson in Drumnahuif relative to the town and lands of Badinzone, while in July or August, 1584, the same John Gordon, but then designed as 'apparent of Carneburrow' was the pursuer in an action of cognition in the same court against Alexander Elphinstoun of 'Balnaglaik,' in which he produced his title to Easter and Wester Innerbuchettis as above."

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions ^{1 2 3}