DUFF, Janet ^{1 2}

   Another name for Janet was GORDON, Janet, Dame.³

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Janet married Sir William GORDON 5th of Park, 3rd Baronet, Jacobite 1745, son of Sir James GORDON 4th of Park, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite 1715 and Helen FRASER, in June 1745.^{1 2} (Sir William GORDON 5th of Park, 3rd Baronet, Jacobite 1745 was born in 1712 and died on 5 June 1751 in Douai, France ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Duff) married at eighteen, in 1745, Sir William Gordon of Park, who had already identified himself with the Jacobite cause. He was described by an official of the Commissioners of Excise as 'A rebel Collonel, and very actif in distressing the country by levying money, using very violent measures.' Her father alludes to ' the young Knight of Park,' in connection with some fishing disputc in 1733, so he was considerably his wife's senior. She is said to have eloped with him from Rothiemay, leaping from a window for the Purpose...."

from Book of the Duffs (vol 1)




"Gordon, Sir William, of Park

Eldest son of Sir James Gordon of Park and his wife, Helen Fraser, born in 1712.He married in June 1745 Janet Duff second daughter of Lord Braco. It is said she eloped with him from Rothiemay leaping from a window. She was 15 years younger than he, being only 18. He escaped abroad after Culloden and his wife followed him to France.He had a daughter and a son, John James, born 26 March 1749, and William, born 1750. He died of a fever in Douai on 5 June 1751. His widow returned to Scotland and married George Hay of Mountblairy. She died in 1758."

from Jacobites of 1745 ^{1 2}

Janet next married George HAY of Mountblairy, son of Andrew HAY of Mountblairy, Writer to the Signet and Mary ALLARDICE, in 1753.^{1 2} (George HAY of Mountblairy was born about 1725 and died on 2 July 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Hay, George, of Mountblairy Second son of Andrew Hay of Mountblairy WS. He was probably under 20 Years at the time of the Rising, and was said to look 15. He married in 1753, Janet Duff, widow of Sir William Gordon of Park, who was then 25 years old, and after her death in 1758 he married Miss Peggy Sinclair of Scotscalder, leaving issue. He was a prisoner in London, having been taken before Culloden. He died peacefully in Edinburgh on 2 July 1771."

from Jacobites of 1745




"....in 1753 she married again, George Hay, younger of Mountblairy, and had a happy married life with him at Carnousie (which he had purchased from the trustees of Arthur Gordon), and she died there March 3, 1758. She had several Hay children, but only one daughter, born 1754, survived her."

from Book of the Duffs (vol 1) ^{1 3}