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GORDON, George 6th Earl, then 1st Marquis of Huntly
(1559-1636)
STEWART, Henrietta
(1573-1642)
CAMPBELL, Archibald 7th Earl of Argyll
(1575-1638)
DOUGLAS, Agnes
(About 1574-1607)
GORDON, George 7th Earl, 2nd Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Enzie and Viscount Aboyne
(About 1590-1649)
CAMPBELL, Anne
(1594-1638)
GORDON, Mary
(About 1625-Before 1682)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. IRVINE, Alexander 11th of Drum

GORDON, Mary 3 4 5

  • Born: About 1625
  • Marriage (1): IRVINE, Alexander 11th of Drum 8 November 1643(contract) married 8 December 1643 1 2 3 4
  • Died: Before 1682 3

   Another name for Mary was GORDON, Marie.

   User ID: N272.


Mary married Alexander IRVINE 11th of Drum, son of Alexander IRVINE 10th of Drum, Sheriff Principal of Aberdeen and Magdalene SCRIMGEOUR, 8 November 1643(contract) married 8 December 1643.1 2 3 4 (Alexander IRVINE 11th of Drum was born about 1620 and died on 18 September 1687 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Mary (Gordon), married, 8 December (contract 8 November) 1643, to Alexander Irvine of Drum."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"This Alexander Irvine died on the 18th September, 1687, leaving by his first wife, Lady Mary Gordon, one son and four daughters. Two sons had died in youth. By his second wife, Margaret Coutts, he left one son and three daughters. By his first marriage he had:-(1) Alexander, who succeeded him; (2) and (3) Robert and Charles, who died young; (4) Mary, married to Patrick, Count Leslie, of Balquhain; (5) Margaret, married to Gilbert Menzies of Pitfoddels; (6) Jean, who, some years after her father's death, was married to Alexander Irvine of Murthill, afterwards of Drum; (7) Henrietta, married to Alexander Leslie of Pitcaple. By the second marriage he had:-(1) Charles, who died a minor in 1693; (2) Catherine, married to John Grey of Gallowhills; (3) and (4) Anne and Elizabeth, who died in their minority, unmarried."

from The Irvines of Drum

Note:

This author notes two different daughters named Margaret who married
'Gilbert Menzies of Pitfoddels', one daughter of the 8th Laird, and one of the 11th Laird. Only the first seems to fit the dates. 3 4

Sources


1 e-books, The Irvines and their kin. A history of the Irvine family and their descendants by Loucinda Joan Rodgers Boyd.

2 e-books, A Short Account of the Family of Irvine of Drum in the County of Aberdeen by Captain Douglas Wimberley (1893).

3 e-books, The Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches by Jonathan Forbes-Leslie (1909).

4 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).

5 e-books, Historical Records of the Family of Leslie 1067-1869 by Col. Leslie of Balquhain (1869).

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