GORDON, Margaret 2
Another name for Margaret was GORDON, Helen.1 User ID: D256. Margaret married Thomas FRASER 6th of Durris, son of Alexander FRASER younger, of Durris and Isobel GUTHRIE.1 (Thomas FRASER 6th of Durris was born about 1538.) Marriage Notes: "Helen, 'daughter of James Gordon of Midmar and Abergeldie,' apparently the 3rd laird, married Thomas Fraser of Durris (Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections, ii., 323) and became the grandmother of Sir Alexander Fraser, the famous physician who trepanned Prince Rupert, and whose daughter, Carey Fraser, married (about 1678) the third Earl of Peterborough. Sir Alexander's son Charles translated Plutarch (Dict. Nat. Biog.)." |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Abergeldie by J.M.Bulloch.
2 e-mail, M.Wade 15 July 2022, citing Arbuthnott Inventory, entries #435 (marriage contract), #436 (follow-up charter) & #437 (royal confirmation of said charter).
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