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GORDON, William 2nd of Craig
(About 1476-1559)
STEWART, Elspet
(About 1489-After 1559)
LESLIE, Alexander 3rd of Wardis
(About 1488-1573)
FORBES, Margaret
(About 1497-)
GORDON, Patrick younger, of Craig
(About 1508-1547)
LESLIE, Johanna
(About 1520-)
GORDON, Elizabeth
(About 1537-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. LESLIE, William

GORDON, Elizabeth 1 3

  • Born: About 1537
  • Marriage (1): LESLIE, William 1 2 3

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Elizabeth married William LESLIE, son of William LESLIE 1st of Warthill and Janet CRUICKSHANK heiress of Warthill.1 2 3 (William LESLIE was born about 1521 and died before 1592 2.). The cause of his death was killing by William Gordon 5th laird of Gight.


  Marriage Notes:

"Elisabeth (Gordon), married to William Leslie, 3rd or 4th son of William Leslie, first laird of Wartle : her husband William is said to have been killed by William Gordon of Gicht. (Macfarlane's Geneal. Collns. II. p. 41.)"

from Gordon of Craig




"William (Leslie), who married Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of the Laird of Auchindoir. He was killed by William Gordon of Gight in a quarrel between George Troup of Begshall and William Gordon, but more by accident than design."

from Family of Leslie




"Before he succeeded to Gight in 1592, William (Gordon 5th of Gight) had made himself a terror. Let me summarise his career :

No date. According to Colonel Leslie in the History of the Leslies (iii., 296), he killed William Leslie (son of William Leslie, first of Warthill), who had married a daughter of Gordon of Auchindoir. Gordon was really quarrelling with Troup of Begshall, and Leslie seems to have interfered. At any rate, he was killed more by accident than design."

from Gight 1 2 3

Sources


1 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Gordon of Craig and Notes on the Cabrach by Douglas Wimberley (1904).

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Gight.

3 e-books, Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067-1869 vol. 3 by Col. Leslie of Balquhain (1869).

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