GORDON, James 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715, Sir 1 2 3 4 5
- Born: About 1683
- Marriage (1): FRASER, Helen in 1709 1 2
- Marriage (2): ELPHINSTONE, Margaret about 1720 2 3 4 5
- Died: 15 December 1727 2
Cause of his death was apoplexy.2
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James married Helen FRASER, daughter of William FRASER 2nd Lord Saltoun of the Fraser line (11th Lord Saltoun, old numbering) and Margaret SHARP, in 1709.1 2 (Helen FRASER was born about 1685.)
Marriage Notes:
"Helen (Fraser), married, in 1709, to James, eldest son of Sir John Gordon of Park, in Banffshire."
from Scots Peerage (vol 7)
"Gordon, James, of Park
Son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet of Park, and his fourth wife Helen Ogilvy, daughter of James, 2nd Earl of Airlie. Married twice, firstly, in 1709 to Helen Fraser, daughter of William, 11th Lord Saltoun and by her had William, John and Helen .... Died 15 December 1727 of apoplexy."
from Jacobites of 1715 1 2
James next married Margaret ELPHINSTONE, daughter of Colonel John ELPHINSTONE 8th Lord Elphinstone and Isabel MAITLAND, about 1720.2 3 4 5 (Margaret ELPHINSTONE was born on 30 May 1684 in Elphinstone, East Lothian, Scotland 5.)
Marriage Notes:
"Margaret (Elphinstone) .... was married, secondly, to Sir James Gordon of Park"
from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
"Gordon, James, of Park
.... Married .... secondly about 1720, Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of John, 8th Lord Elphinstone and widow of George Leslie of Balquhain, who died in 1715. By this second marriage he had one son, James Gordon of Cobairdy and three daughters, Died 15 December 1727 of apoplexy."
from Jacobites of 1715
"(Fetternear parish)
The oldest memorial is probably a defaced tablet fixed into a recess over the arch of the entrance gate. It is inscribed -
. . . Lord Elphinston hath in this year 17 - 9 re - aired and built anew in memory of her dear husband George Lesley of Balquain (Wt. a Son) herein interred, who leaving be hind him these children, James and Ernest, then infants, dyed at Fetternier in the 34th year of his age, June 17, 1715.
The first portion of the above inscription is entirely removed, but it is known that the lady who originally erected the monument was the Hon. Margaret, second daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, who, in 1706, married George Leslie, sixteenth baron of Balquhain. About five years after Mr Leslie's death, his widow married Sir James Gordon of Park, and it is alleged that a son of this marriage, James Gordon - afterwards of Cobairdv - acquired acquired considerable portions of land in Insch district, to the prejudice of the Leslie family."
from Epitaphs and Inscriptions
" .... the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone also induced her son, Ernest, Count Leslie, eighteenth Baron of Balquhain, to dismember the family estates. She had a locality, that is the revenue of certain lands for her jointure on the lands of Insch and Boddam, belonging to the Balquhain estates. After her husband's (George Leslie's) death, about 1720, she married Sir James Gordon of Park, by whom she had a son, James Gordon, styled of Cobairdy, and she prevailed on her son Ernest, when he succeeded to the Balquhain estates, to dispone part of the lands of Insch, and the lands of Boddam, to the said James Gordon, his uterine brother, which was in defraud of the deed of entail made by Count Patrick Leslie, fifteenth Baron, in 1700."
from Family of Leslie 2 3 4 5
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