ERSKINE, Margaret 'of Ardestie' ¹

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Margaret married Patrick GORDON of Boghead, son of William GORDON 5th of Gight and Isobel OCHTERLONY, 29 May 1613(charter).¹ (Patrick GORDON of Boghead was born about 1565 and died before 12 February 1626 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick Gordon married Margaret Erskine of Ardestie, Forfarshire (Balbithan MS.). On July 18, 1642, the king confirmed the charter (dated May 29, 1613) by the late Sir Henry Lindsay (13th Earl of Crawford) to Alexander Durham of Downiemylne, Forfar, with a precept of sasine to Patrick Gordon. Janet Durham married Robert Erskine of Ardestie, whose son resigned these lands to the sixth laird of Gight in 1623 (the year that Sir Henry Lindsay died).

It will be remembered that Patrick Gordon committed a brutal assault on George Thomson, writer to the signet, on the highway near Dundee in 1623, when the lawyer had apparently been settling this business with him. This was the third alliance of the Gight Gordons with Forfarshire women, for Patrick's father, William, V. of Gight, married an Ochterlony, while his brother, George, VI. of Gight, married Isobell Wood of the House of Bonnyton. The Balbithan MS. says that Patrick Gordon 'has issue'. A son (whose Christian name is not given) was denounced in August, 1634, for joining in the attacks on the laird of Frendraught."

from Gight ¹