LESLIE, Margaret ¹

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Margaret married Sir John GORDON younger, of Golspeter and Embo, Baronet of New Embo, son of John GORDON of Golspeter, then Embo and Jane GORDON 'of Garty'.¹ (Sir John GORDON younger, of Golspeter and Embo, Baronet of New Embo was born about 1575 and died in 1649 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir John Gordon died in 1649 (Earls of Sutherland p. 549 He married Margaret daughter of the Hon. Robert Leslie of Findrassie, by Margaret, daughter of Alexander Dunbar of Grange, Dean of Moray, and one of the Lords of Session, which Robert was the son of George, Earl of Rothes. On stones on the archway of the cattle court at Embo mains are still to be seen two adjoining coats of arms, 'I.G.' '1627': and 'M.L.'. clearly standing for John Gordon and Margaret Leslie.

Sir John and his wife had two sons and a daughter : - 1 John Gordon 2 Sir Robert Gordon, 2nd bart. Jane Gordon : married Dr Lamere, a French phjsician, and died in 1656, (Sir Robert Gordon's Tables)."

from The Gordons of Embo ¹