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GORDON, James of Lesmoir
(About 1480-1558)
STEWART, Margaret
(About 1492-After 1541)
FORBES, Alexander 3rd of Towie
(About 1488-Before 1549)
GORDON, Janet
(About 1495-)
GORDON, George 2nd of Lesmoir
(About 1509-)
FORBES, Katharine
(About 1520-)
GORDON, Alexander 3rd of Lesmoir
(About 1538-About 1609)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FORBES, Mariot

GORDON, Alexander 3rd of Lesmoir 1

  • Born: About 1538
  • Marriage (1): FORBES, Mariot 1
  • Died: About November 1609 1

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  General Notes:

"Alexander III. of Lesmoir, who was born probably about 1538, succeeded his father in the autumn of 1591. In October, 1591, the Earl of Huntly granted precept of infeftment in his favour in the lands of Mekil Coldstone. The only retours of service are one on the lands of Grudie in the barony of Kynnadie dated October 3, 1600, and another dated December 20, 1600, on Glascoforest, which had probably by some arrangement reverted from his brother John to his father.
The name of Alexander Gordon - who got a grant of the lands of Garrochie in 1561 from his father - occurs either as 'apparent of Lesmoir' or as laird thereof not infrequently from 1562 up to a short time before his death, generally in connection with bonds of caution for others to keep the peace."

from House of Gordon 1


Alexander married Mariot FORBES, daughter of Alexander FORBES 5th of Pitsligo, 'the Red Laird' and Beatrix ABERNETHY.1 (Mariot FORBES was born about 1540.)


  Marriage Notes:

spouse, the lands of Gorrachie, one half of Cragheid
and the Mill of Balmad. According to the 1600 Gordon MS., Alexander
M made a fair conquest and has repaired and builded in Lesmoir more
sumptuouslie by farr then it was befor ". 1

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Lesmoir by Douglas Wimberley.

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