AUCHINLECK, Marjorie 1
User ID: M995. 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)." |