GORDON, Anne ^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

Grave Inscription:

"Here lies the remains of ANNE, Countess of Aberdeen, relict of William, Earl of Aberdeen, and daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, obiit 26th June a.d. 1791, aetatis suae 78, and also her son, The Honourable ALEXANDER GORDON, Lord Rockville, obiit 13 March 1792. aetatis sui 53, also his daughter, CATHERINE GORDON, wife of Robert Hepburne, Esquire, of Clarkington, who died 2nd April 1832, aged 53 years ; also ROBERT HEPBURNE, Esquire, of Clarkington, who died 5th August 1846, aged 80 years"

from Find a Grave website ⁴

Anne married William GORDON 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, son of Sir George GORDON 3rd Baronet of Haddo, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Chancellor of Scotland and Anne LOCKHART heiress of Tarbrax, on 9 December 1729 in Bellie parish, Moray, Scotland.¹ (William GORDON 2nd Earl of Aberdeen was born on 21 December 1679, baptised on 22 December 1679 in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,⁵ died on 30 March 1745 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ³ and was buried on 15 April 1745 in Methlick parish Churchyard, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁶.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
ANNE
WILLIAM GORDON/
09/12/1729
126
10 / 228
Bellie"

from Index of Marriages




"Anne (Gordon), married, as his third wife, to William, second Earl of Aberdeen, with issue, and died at Edinburgh 22 June 1791, aged seventy-eight."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




William (Gordon) bought the estate of Fyvie in Aberdeenshire in 1733 for his third wife Anne Gordon, daughter of the Duke of Gordon, and her children since the Haddo estate was to pass to his eldest son of a previous marriage. When he died in 1745 Fyvie passed to his 9 year old son William.

from Fyvie Castle, Garden and Estate ^{1 2 7}