GORDON, Anna 2
Another name for Anna was GORDON, Ann of Nethermuir.3 General Notes: "GORDON Anna married William DINGWALL of Brucklay, son of Arthur DINGWALL of Brownhill and Lucresia IRVINE, on 25 October 1711.1 (William DINGWALL of Brucklay was born in 1676 4 and died in 1733 4.) Marriage Notes: "2. Anna Gordon, baptised May 28, 1689. Anna, Countess of Aberdeen (who was a daughter of George Lockhart of Tarbrax), and Lady Christy Grant being godmothers. ('Name of Dingwall Fordyce,' 1885, p. 153). She married October 25, 1711 William Dingwall, the first laird of Brucklay (born in 1676?), who was the son of Arthur Dingwall, of Brownhill, in the parish of Monquhitter (Ibid., p. 66). A gravestone in the churchyard of New Deer records that 'William Dingwall of Brucklay, Esq., also his lady, Ann Gordon of Nethermuir, died in one week in May, 1733, leaving six sons and three daughters all under age. As a Justice of the Peace he was a zealous Protector of his Neighbours and the Poor from every specious [sic] of Fraud and Oppression' (Henderson's 'Aberdeenshire Epitaphs,' i., 407)" |