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WILSON, James of Auchaber, Farmer and Factor
(About 1755-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Isobel

WILSON, James of Auchaber, Farmer and Factor 1 2 3

  • Born: About 1755
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Isobel 1

   Another name for James was WILSON, James Farmer in Bankhead, Clatt.4

   User ID: B586.

  General Notes:

"James Wilson, who succeeded to Auchaber (Cairnbanno and Auchmunziell going to his cousin, James Reid, who took the name of Wilson, and who was the son of his father's sister, Ann Jane Wilson, who married and had two sons who died unmarried)."

from The Gordons in Haddoch 1


James married Isobel GORDON, daughter of James GORDON in Old Merdrum, progenitor of Gordons of the Knoll and Helen GRANT 'of Speyside'.1 (Isobel GORDON was born about 1751 and died on 27 May 1828 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Isobel (Gordon) (by first marriage) : married James, son of James Wilson, Auchaber (Temple's Fermartyn, 205). He died in early manhood, before his brother, who owned Cairnbanno and Auchmunziell. His wife died May 27, 1828, aged 71. They had :

James Wilson, who succeeded to Auchaber (Cairnbanno and Auchmunziell going to his cousin, James Reid, who took the name of Wilson, and who was the son of his father's sister, Ann Jane Wilson, who married and had two sons who died unmarried)."

from The Gordons in Haddoch

Note:

Isobel's recorded age at death does not quite fit other information proffered.
1

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Birkenburn by Captain Douglas Wimberley The Gordons in Haddoch: Possible Cadets of Birkenburn.

2 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae by Hew Scott.

3 e-books, Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries 2nd Series Volume 4 ed John Bulloch (1903).

4 ANESFHS Journal, Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries 2nd Series Volume 4 ed John Bulloch (1903).

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