GORDON, Agnes ¹

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Agnes married John DUFF 9th of Muldavit, JP for Banffshire, son of Mr John DUFF 8th of Muldavit, 'Goodman of Craighead', Burgess of Aberdeen and Elizabeth ABERCROMBY 'of Skeith'.¹ (John DUFF 9th of Muldavit, JP for Banffshire was born about 1565 and died about 1627 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"This John Duff, ninth laird, the first of the family to be described as 'of Craighead,' got a charter upon the lands of Muldavit, during his father's lifetime, dated July 10, 1575, and another, February 24, 1610. He was a Justice of the Peace for Banffshire, 1611. He married Agnes Gordon.'' (page 20)

John (ninth laird), eldest son of 'Mr.' John, married Agnes Gordon (the recusant mentioned on page 16), and in 1626 he and his son sold Muldavit to James Hay of Rannes, 'with the consent of Agnes Gordon his spouse, John his eldest son, and Isabel Allan, spouse of the said John, by charter, apud Cullen.' The signatures of these four persons may still be seen in the Court Books of Cullen. The elder John Duff (ninth laird), who had three other sons, Walter, prebendary of St. Anne's, James, the witness (baillie of Cullen), and William, as well as a daughter Margaret, who married George Ogilvie of Clunes, died in 1627 (Precept of Chancery, September 4, 1627).

From 1626 then the family is no longer 'of Muldavit.' " (page 21)

from Book of the Duffs ¹