AUCHINLECK, Marjorie ¹

   Another name for Marjorie was AUCHENLECK, Majorie.²

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Marjorie married Captain John GORDON Burgess of Guild, Aberdeen, son of John GORDON of Ardmachar, 4th of Gight and Marjory GORDON.¹ (Captain John GORDON Burgess of Guild, Aberdeen was born about 1542 and died 12 February 1591(1592).). The cause of his death was execution for murder of the Bonny Earl of Moray at Donibristle.

  Marriage Notes:

"On June, 1593, according to the Balquhain Charter, No. 659, quoted in the History of the Family of Leslie (in., 64), 'Marjory Gordon, relict of Captain John Gordon, brother of William Gordon of Gight, granted a letter of reversion of the lands of Kirkhill, containing the sum of 3000 merks, in favour of John Leslie of Balquhain'. The Balbithan MS. says that the Captain married the 'laird of Shevthins daughter Affleck, with whom he begat two daughters, and was killed at Dinnibersell without more succession'. Captain Gordon's widow, Marjorie Auchinleck, afterwards married Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne, who figures in Barclay's protocol, 1601, as having a large claim on the Gight estates on behalf of his wife (Davidson's Earldom of the Garioch, p. 242)."

from Gight ¹

Marjorie next married Reverend Mr Robert BURNET Regent of King's College, minister of Oyne parish.¹ (Reverend Mr Robert BURNET Regent of King's College, minister of Oyne parish was born about 1560 and died after 19 November 1633 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Captain Gordon's widow, Marjorie Auchinleck, afterwards married Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne, who figures in Barclay's protocol, 1601, as having a large claim on the Gight estates on behalf of his wife (Davidson's Earldom of the Garioch, p. 242)."

from Gight




(at Oyne in 1596)

"Robert Burnet, regent in King's College, Aberdeen, 1583; adm. in 1596 . app. by presb. of Aberdeen, 11th April 1606, in preaching at Insch, to demit and desire them to provide a minister and a living ; was named by the Assembly Dec. that year as constant Moderator of the Presb., which was charged by the Privy Council to receive him as such within twenty-four hours after notice, under pain of rebellion ; was a member of Assembly in 1610 ; still min. 19th Nov. 1633. He marr. (1) Margaret Leith (see Corrigenda below) : (2) Marjorie Auchenleck, widow of Captain John Gordon of Adiell : (3) Marjorie, daugh. of James Leslie of Warthill and Beatrix, daugh. of Walter Abercrombie, min. of Rayne. [Barclay's Prot.-Book ; Aberdeen Hornings, ix., 135 ; Aberdeen Sas., vii., 101, 103.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)

(at Oyne in 1596)

"Robert Burnett, Margaret Leslie was his widow, not his first wife."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8 Addenda et Corrigenda)




"Perhaps young parsons, in those days, took example from impoverished lords and lairds, who, then as well as since, married where money chanced to come along with the object of affection. Mr. Mill of Inverurie wedded a wealthy widow, old enough to have been his mother, if he had married as young as did Alexander Jaffray, junior. Mr. Robert Burnet, the parson of Oyne, had performed much the same exploit before him ; and figures, in Barclay's Protocol in 1601, as having a large claim upon Gight, on the part of his wife, Marjory Auchinleck, widow of Captain John Gordon. The poverty of the clergy became at length so great a scandal that King James passed an Act, in 1617, raising their stipends to the minimum value of 500 merks with 800 nierks as a maximum endowment."

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