GEDDES, Marjorie ^{1 2}

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Marjorie married John INNES of Leuchars, Constable of Spynie, son of John INNES of Leuchars and Elizabeth DOUGLAS.¹ (John INNES of Leuchars, Constable of Spynie was born about 1620.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The eldest son John (Innes) married without consent of his friends, Marjiorie Geddes, daughter to James Geddes of Achinreath .... this Marjiorie Geddes was ane gentlewoman, and proved ane virtuous wife and bore to this her husband 18 children, whereof ten came to the perfection of men and women, and are all alive at this day (1710) except Walter, who was youngest, and basely murdered at Chattam; after he had wounded his antagonist and taken his sword, he treacherously thrust him thorow the back in cold blood and in peace. The eldest was John, Robert, Alexander, Charles, James, William, and Walter."

from Familie of Innes




"John Innes (of Leuchars, son of Alexander Innes and Marjorie Gordon of Gight) began life in the French army with his distant kinsman, Colonel Gordon (of Wallenstein notoriety). His eldest son married Marjorie Geddes, daughter of James Geddes of Auchenreath, and had eighteen children, including John Innes of Leuchars, who married, at the age of forty-nine, Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Sir George Gordon of Edinglassie, the latter being his father's first cousin."

from Gight ^{1 3}