WEMYSS, Patrick of Craighall family ²

   Another name for Patrick was WEMYESS, Patrick.¹

Patrick married Mary GORDON, daughter of Charles GORDON 6th of Terpersie, Jacobite 1745 and Margaret GORDON, on 6 December 1761 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Mary GORDON was born about 1730.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Wemyss, to whom the estate of Edintore was conveyed during his minority by his grandmother, Mrs. Garioch (under an action of adjudication, raised by his father William, and settled on February 21, 1765), did not take sasine till after her death; and he assumed the name of Gordon, being one of the first people to adopt the surname.
He was the second son of William Wemyss of Craighall by his wife, Jane Garioch. His uncle, Patrick Wemyss, married Mary Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon of Terpersie [see ante, p. (348)]. At a meeting of heritors of Keith on February 12, 1766, there were read letters from Mrs. Garioch, liferentrix on Edintore, and from William Wemyss of Craighall as administrator for his son, a minor and heir of fee of Edintore."

from Edintore ²