ELPHINSTONE, Margaret 1 2 3 4
- Born: 30 May 1684, Elphinstone, East Lothian, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): LESLIE, George 16th Baron of Balquhain in 1706 1 2
- Marriage (2): GORDON, James 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715, Sir about 1720 1 2 3 4
- Marriage (3): FULLERTON, John of Dudwick 2
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Margaret married George LESLIE 16th Baron of Balquhain, son of Patrick LESLIE 15th Baron of Balquhain and Mary IRVINE, in 1706.1 2 (George LESLIE 16th Baron of Balquhain was born on 26 August 1682 1 and died on 17 June 1715 1 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"Margaret, born at Elphinstone 30 May 1684, married, first, to George Leslie of Balquhain in 1706. He died 17 June 1715, aged thirty-four"
from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
"Count George Leslie married, 1706, the Honourable Margaret Elphinstone, second daughter of John, eighth Lord Elphinstone, and by her had issue ... "
from Family of Leslie 1 2
Margaret next married Sir James GORDON 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715, son of Sir John GORDON 3rd of Park and Cluny, Baronet and Helen OGILVY, about 1720.1 2 3 4 (Sir James GORDON 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715 was born about 1683 and died on 15 December 1727 3.). The cause of his death was apoplexy.
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 1 2 3 4
Margaret next married John FULLERTON of Dudwick.2 (John FULLERTON of Dudwick was born about 1680.)
Marriage Notes:
"Margaret (Elphinstone) .... married, secondly, to Sir James Gordon of Park ; on his death she became the wife of John Fullerton of Dudwick."
from Scots Peerage (vol 3) 2
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