GORDON, Jean 1 2
- Baptised: 27 February 1727, Cullen parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): MILNE, James Merchant in Norway 1
User ID: F876.
General Notes:
"GORDON
JEAN
WILLIAM GORDON/MARGARAT DUFF
F
27/02/1727
150/ 20 345
Cullen"
from Births and Baptisms 1 2
Jean married James MILNE Merchant in Norway, son of George MILNE Supervisor of Excise and Margaret DUFF.1 (James MILNE Merchant in Norway was baptised on 10 April 1732 in Banff parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"His (James Duff of Corsendae') daughter Margaret .... married : first, to Mr. George Milne, by whom she had one son, James Milne, a merchant in Norway, who married his cousin, a daughter of Gordon of Farskane, and had issue, Margaret Milne, who in right of her grandmother Helen, succeeded to the estate of Eden..." (page 332)
"It was this James Milne who married the Jean Gordon of Farskane, and whose daughter subsequently became heiress of Eden, and mother to James Cuninghame Grant Duff. It is thus that the Grant Duff family appeared in the entail of Corsindae, broken in 1883." (page 334)
from Book of the Duffs
Note:
The dates do not allow the relationships here to be literally accurate; 'cousin' appears to have been used in the looser old Scots sense of 'relative'. Also, Margaret Milne was Helen Duff's great granddaughter. The author makes it clear elsewhere that this is in fact the case. 1
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