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BYRES, James Merchant in Aberdeen
(About 1645-Before 1693)
MIDDELTONE, Janet 'of Stenhouse'
(About 1647-1695)
BYRES, Isobell
(1670-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Robert 1st of Esslemont and 12th of Hallhead

BYRES, Isobell 2

  • Baptised: 12 May 1670, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 2
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Robert 1st of Esslemont and 12th of Hallhead 1

   Other names for Isobell were BYRES, Isabel 1 and BYRES, Isabella.3

   User ID: K741.

  General Notes:

"BYRES
ISOBELL
JAMES BYRES/JANET MIDLTOUN
F
12/05/1670
168 / A 40 / 560
ABERDEEN"

from Births and Baptisms 2


Isobell married Robert GORDON 1st of Esslemont and 12th of Hallhead, son of Patrick GORDON 9th of Hallhead and Margaret BURNET.1 (Robert GORDON 1st of Esslemont and 12th of Hallhead was born about 1665 and died about 1728 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

XII. Robert Gordon of Hallhead and Esslemont.

Robert Gordon purchased in 1728, from James Gordon of Ellon, the lands of Esslemont. He was a wine merchant in Bordeaux, where he acquired sufficient fortune not only to purchase the paternal estate of Hallhead, but also the additional one of Esslemont. He married Isabel, daughter of James Byres of Tonley, by his wife, Janet Middleton, baptised 12 May 1670. By her he had issue"

from Thanage of Fermartyn 1

Sources

1 e-books, The Thanage of Fermartyn by William Temple (1894).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

3 Internet Site, https://www.thepeerage.com/p39999.htm#i399981 George Gordon, 2nd of Esslemont and 13th of Hallhead.

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