GORDON, George of Blairdinnie, 2nd of Coclarachie 1 4
- Born: About 1513, Milton of Noth, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Daughter 1 2 3
- Died: 2 November 1562, Aberdeen, Scotland 4
Cause of his death was execution.4
User ID: V583.
General Notes:
"By a charter, dated at Aberdeen, November 16, 1556, and confirmed under the Great Seal, August 13, 1586, William, Bishop of Aberdeen, feued to George Gordoun of Blairdynnie, 'the hauch of Bogy' in the parish of Clatt. On February 7, 1560, George Gordon bought the fourth part of Coclarachie that belonged to Alexander Forbes, the son of his halfsister, and he got sasine thereon on February 10 following, being described in the instrument of sasine Appendix II.) as 'Georgius Gordoun hereditarius de Blairendenny '. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Corrichie in October, and was executed at Aberdeen on November 2, 1562, at the same time as Sir John Gordon, second son of the Marquis of Huntly (Balbithan MS., p. 52 ; Macfarlane's Genealogical
Collections, i., 237).."
from Cocklarachie 4
George married Daughter GORDON, daughter of John GORDON of Tilphoudie and Unknown.1 2 3 (Daughter GORDON was born about 1530.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (George Gordon) married a daughter of John Gordon of Tilphoudie, who was second son of Adam Gordon of Aboyne and his wife Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, and by her had :
1. George, his successor (Rec. of Aboyne, pp. 42, 210).
2. Bessie (Temple's Fermartyn, p. 277)."
from Coclarachie
Note:
The Thanage of Fermartyn lists a daughter named Bessie for George Gordon 1st of Coclarachie and also for his son George, but offers no information about who they married. It appears to be the daughter, Bessie, of the younger George Gordon who married Lawrence Leith.
"Adam of Aboyne, who married the heiress of the Sutherland family, and Adam's daughter, Lady Helenor, married a George Gordon of Auchmalidy, apparently of the Auchmenzie family (see Rec. of Aboyne, p. 212), and got Tilphoudie for her portion, and her brother John, who resided at Tilphoudie, had a daughter who became the wife of George Gordon of Coclarachie. (See Rec. of Aboyne, p. 42.)"
from Gordons of Craig
He (John Gordon) had issue a daughter, married to George Gordon of Cochlarachie.
form Scots Peerage (vol 8)
"Sir Robert Gordon in his Earldom of Sutherland says that John of Tilphoudie, second son of Earl Adam, had a daughter who married George Gordon [second] of Cochlarachie, and the author of the Manuscript of 1580 gives the same account"
from Records of Aboyne 1 2 3 4 5
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