GORDON, John 'of Oxhill', farmer in Gartly Parish 1
- Born: About 1645
- Marriage (1): ROSS, Margaret 1
User ID: J116.
John married Margaret ROSS, daughter of Captain James ROSE of Allanbuie and Unknown.1 (Margaret ROSS was born about 1650.)
Marriage Notes:
"A very interesting light is thrown on the Oxhill and Leichestoun Gordons in a letter written in May, 1826, by Anne Grant, Aberdeen, to her brother Joseph Grant, and preserved (in the form of a copy made in Glenlivet on February 12, 1848) by Mrs. Donald Gordon of the Tullochallum family, now residing at 50 Crescent Lane, Clapham Park, London, S.W.
It states in brief that John Gordon of Oxhill, Cotton hill and four oxgate of Dallachie, married Margaret Ross, daughter of the laird of Allenbuie, against the will of his father John, who was so angry that he 'gave up the charters of all his lands to the Duke of Gordon, redeemable at the end of forty years when he thought his son would begone : but his grandchildren would have it'.
After thus being expelled from Oxhill, John, the husband of Margaret Ross, became a farmer at Gartly : while the Duke of Gordon gave him Leichestoun in tack. He built a house there with 'J. G. for his name and the date of the year of God above the entry'. It was standing in 1809. John died thirteen years after his father's renunciation and left three sons Alexander, William and a third who went abroad."
from A Tradition about Leichestoun 1
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