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WIFE, Unnamed
(About 1567-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Walter

WIFE, Unnamed 1 2

  • Born: About 1567
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Walter 1 2

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Unnamed married Walter GORDON, son of Right Reverend Dr William GORDON last Pre-Reformation Bishop of Aberdeen and Janet KNOWLES.1 2 (Walter GORDON was born about 1557.)


  Marriage Notes:

"The cadents of William Gordon, bishop of Aberdeen, fourth son to Alexander 3d Earl of Huntly. This William Gordon Bishop of Aberdeen had two natural Sons, viz. Mr John Gordon who coft some Houses in the Old town of Aberdeen, and Mr Walter Gordon ; the said Mr John Gordon dyed without Succession, his brother Mr Walter succeeded to his Houses and Lands and married and begat a son called Wm Gordon."

from Balbithan MS




John Gordon died without issue, and he was succeeded by another brother, 'Mr. Walter who married and had a son, William Gordon' (M. S. Pedigree)."

from Records of Aboyne 1 2

Sources


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

2 e-books, The Records of Aboyne 1230-1681 edited by Charles XI Marquis of Huntly (1894).

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