BARCLAY, Jane co-heiress of Cairness ¹

   Another name for Jane was GORDON, Jean.²

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Jane married Thomas GORDON, son of Charles GORDON 5th of Buthlaw, Advocate and Jean UDNY.¹ (Thomas GORDON was baptised on 2 August 1717 in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland ³ and died on 28 April 1749 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

" Jane (Barclay), also served co heiress to her brother, James, in Cairness, 19th March 1766, and of her sister, Ann, in Cairness, 15th Aug. 1766, marr. Thomas Gordon (died 28th April 1749), son of Charles Gordon of Buthlaw .... with issue, including Charles, who succeeded his uncle, John Gordon, in the estate of Buthlaw in 1775, and also of Cairness which in 1776 was transferred to him by his aunt, Mary, and his mother, who died after 2nd Feb. 1780; and possibly also, William, 'son of Mr John Barclay, minister' ; who on 28th Aug. 1732 was apprenticed to John Aitoun, wright, Edinburgh"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8)




"Gordon, Jean, wid. of Thos. Gordon in Aberdeen, to her sister Mary Barclay, wife of John of Buthlaw h. gen. S. H., 19 Jan. ; 2 Feb. 1780"

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