GORDON, Marie ⁴

   Another name for Marie was GORDON, Mary.^{3 5}

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  Research Notes:

WIFE OF ALEXANDER

Both the given names Mary/Margaret and the parentage of the wife of Alexander Irvine are confused in some secondary sources. ⁶

Marie married Alexander IRVINE 11th of Drum, son of Alexander IRVINE 10th of Drum, Sheriff Principal of Aberdeen and Magdalene SCRIMGEOUR, 7 or 8 December 1643.^{1 2 3} (Alexander IRVINE 11th of Drum was born about 1620 and died on 18 September 1687 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The eleventh laird's first wife had apparently been somewhat aristocratically aloof but, after she died, he spotted a young shepherdess on his estates, some forty-seven years his junior. Sixteen-year -old Mary Coutts was not one to sell her virtue short so, despite general disapproval, the two were married and the old laird enjoyed six years of bliss before dying not long before his seventieth birthday in 1687. This story is recorded in the traditional ballad 'The Laird of Drum'."

from The Irvine Family




"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 7}