GORDON, Christian ²

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Christian married Duncan FORBES of Ardgeithen, son of Sir John FORBES of Tolquhon and Mariote PRESTON co-heiress of Fermartyn.^{1 2} (Duncan FORBES of Ardgeithen was born about 1430.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Duncan Forbes of Argeighten married Christian Gordon, daughter to Thomas Gordon of Auchindore who did bear to him John Forbes in Terpersie, with diverss daughters"

from Family of Forbes




"Duncan Forbes of Ardgeithe, second son of Sir John Forbes of Tolquhon, married Christian, daughter of Thomas Gordon of Auchindoir, and had a son John, in Terpersie"

from House of Forbes




"Duncan Forbes of Argeighton 2d Son to the first Sir John Argeighton. Married Christen Gordon Daughter to Thomas Gordon of Achendore who bear to him John Forbes of Terpersie with divers Daughters"

from MacFarlane's Collections




"Macfarlane mentions (vol. II., p. 227) that a Christian Gordon, daughter to Thomas Gordon of Auchindoir, married Duncan Forbes of Argreighton [2nd son of the first Sir John Forbes of Tolquhon] 'father of John Forbes in Terpersie.,' This Thomas was presumably (see Note below) the Thomas Gordon, son of Patrick of Johnisleys, mentioned in the charter granted by Adam of Aboyne in 1517."

from Gordons of Craig


Note on the identity of the father of Christian Gordon:

This Thomas Gordon cannot be the Thomas Gordon mentioned by Wimberley (above), since the Thomas Gordon referenced by Wimberley was flourishing in the late 15th and early 16th century. Christian's father would have to have been alive almost a hundred years earlier than that, born in the early 1400s at the latest.

Auchindoir, well before it belonged to the Gordons of Craig, was held by the Irvines of Drum:

"The Earl of Mar afterwards wedded the Lady of Duffyl in Brabant; and on his return to Scotland granted to his cousin ('consanguineo nostro'), Sir Alexander Irewyne, the lands of Davachindore ² [² Now called Auchindoir, Craig of Auchindoir, etc.] and Fidelmonth in perpetuity. In this charter, which is dated at Kyndromy, 16th December, 1410, the granter styles himself Earl of Mar and the Garviauch and Lord of Duffyl in Brabant." (Irvines of Drum page 32)

Much later, in the early 1500s, the laird of Irvine entered into an agreement with Patrick Gordon of Johnisleys, ancestor of the Gordons of Craig or Auchindoir.

Before that happened, Alexander Irvine of Drum resigned the lands of Braeruddoch in Aboyne, and George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, by charter, dated at Banff, 24th January 1473-4, conveyed them to his 'beloved cousin, Thomas of Gordon,' upon the same tenure. The latter was most probably Thomas Gordon of Kennerty, son of Thomas Gordon of Daach.

It is possible that Christian or Christen Gordon who married Duncan Forbes was this younger Thomas's sister, a daughter of Thomas Gordon of Daach who is said to have fathered a many children by several partners.

It is even possible that the designations 'Daach' and Davachindore have been confused in naming her father, Thomas Gordon, and that the more modern 'Achendore' has replaced Davachindore, mistakenly substituted for Daach. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}