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GORDON, Alexander 5th of Birkenburn, Commissioner of Supply for Banffshire
(About 1633-1709)
BISSET, Helen
(About 1634-After 1704)
DUFF, William Provost of Banff, then of Inverness
(About 1626-)
LOCKART, Jane
(About 1648-)
GORDON, William 6th of Birkenburn, Commissioner of Supply for Banffshire
(About 1668-1740)
DUFF, Jean
(About 1682-)
GORDON, Helen
(1706-1778)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FRASER, George in Cuperhill
2. MILNE, William Minister of Inverkeithny parish, Reverend Mr

GORDON, Helen 1 2

  • Born: 7 February 1706, Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
  • Baptised: 9 February 1706, Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2 3
  • Marriage (1): FRASER, George in Cuperhill on 27 December 1733 in Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1
  • Marriage (2): MILNE, William Minister of Inverkeithny parish, Reverend Mr on 4 September 1740 in Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 4 May 1778 4

   Another name for Helen was GORDON, Hellen.3

   User ID: W369

  General Notes:

"GORDON
HELLEN
WM. GORDON/
F
09/02/1706
159/ 10 44
Keith"

from Births and Baptisms 3


Helen married George FRASER in Cuperhill on 27 December 1733 in Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 (George FRASER in Cuperhill was born about 1700.)


  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
HELEN
GEORGE FRASER/
27/12/1733
159/ 40 70
Keith"

from Index of Marriages




"Helen (Gordon) 'was born on Thursday 7 Febrij 1706 about 12 acloack att night, my mother and the Lady Lesmurdie being Godmothers'. She was baptised at Keith, February 9, 1706 - witnesses : Charles Gordon of Glengerack, Charles Gordon in Auchinhoof, and Charles Stewart in Achoynany. She is said to have had a very handsome tocher.

She married (1) George Fraser in Cuperhill, December 27, 1733; and (2) September 4, 1740, Rev. William Milne, minister of Inverkeithney (1721-66)."

from Birkenburn 1 2

Helen next married Reverend Mr William MILNE Minister of Inverkeithny parish on 4 September 1740 in Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland.1 2 (Reverend Mr William MILNE Minister of Inverkeithny parish was born about 1695 in Cairnie parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 4 and died on 15 September 1766 4.)


  Marriage Notes:

"MILNE
WILLIAM
HELEN GORDON/
04/09/1740
159/40 88
Keith"

"MILNE
WILLIAM
HELEN GORDON/
24/08/1740
158/10 263
Inverkeithny"

from Index of Marriages




(at Inverkeithney in 1721)


"William Milne, born Cairney about 1695, third son of John M., portioner of Urquhart, and Elspet Taylor; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1710); licen. by Presb. of Strathbogie 28th Sept. 1720; called by the Presb. jure devoluto 4th Jan., and ord. 15th March 1721; died 15th Sept. 1766. He marr. (1) July 1722, Jean, daugh. of James Brown, merchant, Edinburgh : (2) 4th Sept. 1740, Helen (died 4th May 1778), daugh. of William Duff of Birkenburn, and had issue John, his successor in the parish; William, born 11th Jan. 1743; Jean, born 5th Aug. 1744, died 25th Oct. 1747. [Pirie's Parish of Cairnie, 127; Cramond's Family of Milne.]

from Fasti Ecclesiae

Note: "
Helen (died 4th May 1778), daugh. of William Duff of Birkenburn" is an error. It should read William Gordon of Birkenburn. 1 4

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Birkenburn by Captain Douglas Wimberley.

3 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

4 e-books, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae vol. 6 Aberdeen & Moray by Hew Scott.

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