OGILVY, James 2nd Earl of Airlie 1 2 3
User ID: F504. James married Helen OGILVY, daughter of Sir George OGILVY Lord Banff, Provost of Banff and Margaret IRVINE, 20 and 25 March 1629 (contract).1 (Helen OGILVY was born about 1610 and died after February 1664 3.) Marriage Notes: "... he (James Ogilvy) married (contract dated 20-25 March 1629) Helen Ogilvy, eldest daughter of George, first Lord Banff. She was the Lady Ogilvy of the burning of Airlie, and was, after the destruction of her husband's castles by Argyll, forced (though with child) to flee with her children to Dundee. She died after February 1664 .... He left issue by his first marriage" James next married Mary GRANT, daughter of Sir John GRANT 6th of Freuchie and Mary OGILVY, 31 October 1668(contract).2 3 (Mary GRANT was born about 1629 and died after 1707.) Marriage Notes: "Mary, who married, first, Lord Lewis Gordon, third son of the Marquis of Huntly, who afterwards succeeded as third Marquis of Huntly. According to tradition. Lord Lewis Gordon was concealed for some time in a cave in a rocky glen about two miles from Castle Grant. To that hiding-place the Laird of Grant's sister Mary carried supplies to the fugitive, and her attentions led to their marriage. The cave is still called 'Huntly's cave.' The marriage took place about October or the beginning of November, 1644. He had with her a tocher of 20,000 merks. He died in December, 1653. There was issue of this marriage, George, created first Duke of Gordon, and several daughters. She married, secondly, James Ogilvie, second Earl of Airlie, as his second wife (Contract dated 31st October, 1668), without issue. As she had been excommunicated, her marriage was arranged with great difficulty." |