SETON, Grissell ¹

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Grissell married George GORDON 4th of Coclarachie, son of George GORDON fiar of Coclarachie and Jean GORDON, in May 1629.¹ (George GORDON 4th of Coclarachie was born about 1610 and died on 4 August 1663.)

  Marriage Notes:

"This laird (George Gordon 4th of Coclarachie) succeeded his grandfather in 1633, though he and his first wife had received, on the occasion of their marriage in 1629, a charter on Coclarachie and also on Overblairton and Pettens in the parish of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire (Appendix VI.). On October 6, 1643, he sold the lands in Belhelvie to George Davidson, burgess of Aberdeen (Scottish Notes and Queries, ii., 102) ; but he also acquired lands in the parish of Marnoch, Banffshire, including the barony of Auchintoul. [...]

He married (I) in May, 1629, Grissell, daughter of Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, by whom he 'begat sons and daughters' (Balb. MS., p. 52) : -

1. George of Auchintoul.

2. Alexander of Auchintoul.

3. James of Ardmeallie.

4. Marie, who married in March, 1659, John Grant in Lettoch, eldest son of James Grant of Auchernick (Elgin Commissary MS. Records, 26th June, 1684)."

from Coclarachie ¹