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GORDON, Patrick in Fulziemont and Johnsleys, Laird of Craig
(About 1445-1519)
BARCLAY, Rachel
(About 1459-)
GORDON, George of Coclarachie
(About 1479-Before 1534)
OLIPHANT, of Berridale
(About 1485-)
GORDON, George of Blairdinnie, 2nd of Coclarachie
(About 1515-1562)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Helenor

GORDON, George of Blairdinnie, 2nd of Coclarachie 1 4

  • Born: About 1515, Milton of Noth, Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Helenor 1 2 3
  • Died: 2 November 1562, Aberdeen, Scotland 4

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  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."

from Cocklarachie 4


George married Helenor GORDON, daughter of John GORDON of Tilphoudie and Unknown.1 2 3 (Helenor GORDON was born about 1530.)


  Marriage Notes:

"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



"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

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Gordon of Craig and Notes on the Cabrach by Douglas Wimberley (1904).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

3 e-books, The Records of Aboyne 1230-1681 edited by Charles XI Marquis of Huntly (1894).

4 e-books, The House of Gordon ed. J.M.Bulloch vol.1 (1903) Coclarachie by Stephen Ree.

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