GELLIE, Alexander of Blackford 1
- Born: About 1640
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Margaret of Badycaiss (Baldyquash) 1
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Alexander married Margaret GORDON of Badycaiss (Baldyquash).1 (Margaret GORDON of Badycaiss (Baldyquash) was born about 1645.)
Marriage Notes:
"We may mention that Blackford was for long the property of a family of the name of Gardyn or Garden.
Baldycaiss in 1330 belonged to Thomas de Gardyn. In 1417, Thomas de Gardyn is mentioned - probably of the same family; while in 1504, Gardyn de Blackfurde is present at an inquest of Walter Dempster of Auchterless. Alexander Gardyn de Blackfurde is one of the subscribers of a band in 1589 in defence of the true religion, and twelve years previous to this date, he is on the inquest of George Meldrum of Fyvie, 1577. In 1594, James Gardyn, fiar of Blackfurde, a son probably of the above Alexander, the last of the Gardyns of Blackfurde, is security, along with Patrick Copland of Udoch, for three hundred merks.
"For want of heirs, Blackford fell to the Crown in the time of James VI., who granted it to Sir Malcolm of Balbertie. He sold it to Adam Urquhart of Meldrum, who soon after sold it to John Gellie, who was minister of Monymusk, and was infeft in the lands of Blackford in 1635, and died in 1637. His son, Alexander Gellie of Blackford, married Margaret Gordon of Badycaiss (Baldyquash), and had issue a daughter, Helen, who married Alexander Forbes, and thus brought to him the estate of Blackford."
from Thanage of Fermatyn 1
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