GORDON, Elizabeth ^{1 2}

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Elizabeth married John INNES 5th of Edingight, son of John INNES 4th of Edingight and Christian BRUCE.^{1 2} (John INNES 5th of Edingight was born about 1638 and died after 1724 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"At any rate John Gordon of Ardlogie and Isobel Innes had a daughter, Elizabeth Gordon, who married her distant kinsman, John Innes of Edingight (probably about 1659), and (possibly) had three sons and a daughter. One of these sons, John, sixth of Edingight, was the father of Alexander Innes of Rosieburn, and the grandfather of Katherine Innes, Mrs. Byron's mother ..."

from Gight




"These and other liabilities seem to have led to John Innes and his wife, Christian Bruce, in 1653 raising a loan of 9500 merks by a wadset on Edingight - and this was advanced by his cousin John Innes, son of Herome Innes minister of Fyvie. But apparently all expedients failed to restore his fortunes, for at his death in 1674, we have the inventory of his personal estate given up by his son John. In 1659, fifteen years before his death, he had denuded himself of the lands of Edingight, and by a deed of sale conveyed them to his son, and was then designed as 'of Kinowdie,' - but this was probably only his wife's jointure house ....

.... So far as known he had only one son John, to whom he conveyed the lands of Edingight by a deed of sale in 1659. The deed of sale is not extant, but it is narrated in the son's marriage contract, to which he was a party. This marriage contract is without a date, but as it was connected with the minute of sale of the lands, the date of which is quoted in the contract, it is probable that the marriage took place at that date. The son having thus, on his marriage, come into possession of the family estate became John Innes V. of Edingight, and he seems to have set himself about putting the familyaffairs in order, and it was his happy lot to survive to a good old age and see his great-grandson as heir to the inheritance which he had redeemed. He married Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of John Gordon of Ardlogie in Fyvie. Her mother was Isobel Innes, one of the heirs-portioners, sisters of John son of Herome Innes minister of Fyvie. By this marriage, as his wife's marriage portion, he obtained the discharge of one-third of the wadset on Edingight, which had been granted by his father for a loan of 9500 merks from John Innes son of Herome minister of Fyvie .... The family of John Innes V., presumably by his first wife Elizabeth Gordon of Ardlogie, consisted of three sons and two daughters - John, James, Thomas, Jean, and Margaret."

from Innes of Edingight ^{1 2}