GORDON, Eleanora ^{1 2}

   Other names for Eleanora were GORDON, Eleanor ³ and GORDON, Helen.

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  General Notes:

No baptism record has been found for Eleanora.

Eleanora married George FRASER 5th Lord Saltoun of the Fraser line, (14th Lord Saltoun, old numbering), son of Alexander FRASER 3rd Lord Saltoun of the Fraser line, (12th Lord Saltoun, old numbering) and Mary GORDON, on 30 May 1746 in Philorth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (George FRASER 5th Lord Saltoun of the Fraser line, (14th Lord Saltoun, old numbering) was born on 10 October 1720 ^{1 3} and died on 30 August 1781 ^{1 3}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Eleanora, born at Kinnaird Head, August 4, 1731. She married at Philorth on Sunday, May 30, 1756, her cousin George, fourteenth Lord Saltoun (1720-1781). She died at Edinburgh September 13, 1800, and was buried at Holyrood House Chapel. She had four sons and three daughters, including Alexander (Fraser), fifteenth Baron Saltoun."

from Lesmoir




"George Fraser, fifth Lord Saltoun of the Fraser line and fourteenth from the first creation. He was born on 10 October 1720. He entered the Army and obtained a commission in the Royal Marines. Succeeded his brother in 1751 ; was interested in politics, and often voted at the elections of Representative Peers. He took no part in active affairs, and died on 30 August 1781 at the age of sixty-one.

He married his cousin Eleanor, daughter of John Gordon of Kinellar, who survived him, and died in 1800 ; by her he had seven children"

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) ^{1 3}