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GORDON, George 3rd of Coclarachie
(About 1546-Before 1633) |
GORDON, George 3rd of Coclarachie 1 2
User ID: B568. General Notes: "George Gordon, III. of Coclarachie, was a minor at the time of his father's forfeiture and execution, but was included in the remission for Corrichie, granted February 26, 1567 (Spalding Club Misc., iv., 155).On November 20, 1587, he bought from the Earl of Huntly a fourth part of Coclarachie [....] Having joined the Earl of Huntly and having been present at the Battle of Glenlivet in October, 1594, he was again forfeited, and did not obtain remission till April 2, 1603 (Spald. Club Misc., iv., 159). On March 16, 1615, he obtained confirmation under the Great Seal of the charter of February 7, 1560, by which his father had acquired from Alexander Forbes a fourth part of Coclarachie, it being explained that the delay in obtaining confirmation had been caused by his father's death soon after the purchase and his own minority at the time of his father's death. Having resigned the fourth part purchased in 1587, he received from the Marquis of Huntly on May 21, 1617, a charter on the three fourth parts of Coclarachie, redeemable on payment of 6,000 merks...He thus obtained the whole of Coclarachie, which remained in possession of his descendants till 1767." (page 8) George married Bessie DUNCAN, daughter of James DUNCAN of Meldrum and Janet LUMSDEN.1 (Bessie DUNCAN was born about 1572 and died by 15 December 1643 1.) Marriage Notes: "George Gordon, III. of Coclarachie, married Bessie, daughter of James Duncan of Merdrum. Bessie Duncan survived her husband [.....] In 1636 'the guidwyff of Coclarachie' was residing in Old Aberdeen (Munro's Old Aberdeen, i., 354); and probably the charter of liferent to Grissell Seton on December 15, 1643 (Appendix VII.), was granted shortly after Bessie Duncan's death." |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Coclarachie by Stephen Ree.
2 e-books, The Thanage of Fermartyn by William Temple (1894).
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