GORDON, Thomas of Dilspro ¹

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  General Notes:

"He seems to be Thomas 'of Delspro'. He and his father and mother got a charter of Saphak on May 10, 1600. On November 18, 1619, Thomas 'of Delspro,' James Gordon of Lesmoir and William Gordon of Chappelton got licence to go abroad, for the 'doing of thair lawfull affairs' (Privy Council Register)... On April 12, 1621, Thomas of Dilspro got sasine in a tenement in Old Aberdeen. On April 19, 1621, Thomas Gordon of Broadland got sasine in Dilspro, Saphak and Mekil Govil. On June 16, 1621, William Lindsay renounced Dilspro to Thomas Gordon of Dilspro, and on the same date there is a reversion by Lindsay of Auld Govil to Thomas Gordon of Dilspro and Thomas Gordon of Brodland, which clearly shows that these two Thomases were different persons. On November 12, 1624, Thomas Gordon in Broadland renounced the mill, etc., of Dilspro, Denstoun and Carnefield to Thomas of Dilspro. On February 13, 1640, Thomas of Dilspro gets discharge. All these transactions are noted in the Particular Register of Sasines, Aberdeen."

"In Nov., 1638, Thomas Gordon, 'late of Dilspro,' resigned the shady half of the lands of old Govill in New Machar to John Kintie."

from Lesmoir ¹

  Research Notes:

DIFFERENT THOMAS GORDONS

It is clear from the records reproduced in House of Gordon that there were several men named Thomas Gordon living in the same general area about the same time, and at least two of them had some legal connection or were connected by name with Dilspro. The man here is one of them. However they were of two different families of Gordon. The three Thomas Gordons that should be distingusihed were:

1

Thomas Gordon of Grandholme, sometimes named of Dilspro, son of Alexander, was of the Abergelsie family;

2

Thomas Gordon of Dilspro, son of Henry or Harry, was of the Lesmoir family.

3

Thomas Gordon of Broadland, son of James Gordon, was also a Lesmoir descendant. he was an ancestor of the Buthlaw family of Gordon.

Matters are complicated further because more than one branch of them had legal or land links to Goval in New Machar.

Dilspro and modern Grandhome are situated quite near each other, a few miles east of Aberdeen Airport at Dyce. ¹

Thomas married Margaret ALLARDICE, daughter of John ALLARDICE of that Ilk and Alison LYNDSAY, by 16 June 1620 (sasine).¹ (Margaret ALLARDICE was born about 1603.)

  Marriage Notes:

"On June 26, 1620, Thomas Gordon of Dilspro and his wife Margaret Allardes got sasine in 'Saak'. She was Margaret Allardyce, daughter of John Allardyce of that Ilk."

from Lesmoir ¹