GORDON, Catharine ¹

   Another name for Catharine was GORDON, Katharine.²

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  General Notes:

"Register of Deeds 1673

Gordon, Katharine, relict of Robert Leslie of Edintore, Grantor, Disch(arge?), (recorded) 3 July, volume 33, page 536"

from Register of Deeds ²

Catharine married Robert LESLIE of Edintore of Coldwells.¹ (Robert LESLIE of Edintore of Coldwells was born about 1620.)

  Marriage Notes:

"3. Catharine (Gordon), married as his second wife Robert Leslie of Edintore and Coldwells (near Keith). His first wife was Isobel Gordon, sister of Alexander Gordon who bought Edintore and Coldwells in 1670."

By his second wife he had : -

(1) James Leslie in Birkenburn, who with his sons got 305 merks under his sister, Katherine's, will, 1724.

(2) Alexander Leslie, merchant, Aberdeen, dead by 1724. He had two sons and two daughters, who all benefitted by their aunt Katherine's will. Apprenticed to John Chrystie, merchant, Aberdeen, March 11, 1669 (S. N. & Q., xii., 6).

(3) Janet Leslie : will October 19, 1715.

(4) Katherine Leslie : will May 27, 1724. She nominated William Gordon of Birkenburn as her sole executor; and as he held all her money on loan, she appointed him to pay the legacies in cash, or to grant his bond to the legatee. She left him 400 merks 'for the benefit off Magdalen Gordon, his eldest daughter, or failing of her be decease to any of his children he shall think meet'. The will was signed by Mr. George Chalmers, minister of Botriphnie, by request of the said Katherine, and witnessed by Robert Watt in Birkenburn and Alexander Winchester, servant to William Gordon of Birkenburn."

from Birkenburn ¹