GORDON, Patrick 2nd of Letterfourie ²

   Another name for Patrick was GORDON, Patrick of Letterfurie.¹

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  General Notes:

Patrick Gordon 2nd Laird of Letterfourie and George Gordon, 6th Earl and 1st Marquess of Huntly, were both descended from the 2nd Earl of Huntly so they were 'family'. In 1592 Patrick was among the kinsmen who went with the 1st Marquess to Donibristle in Fife, Scotland. They went there to carry out a plot to murder James Stewart, Earl of Moray. Moray, living at his mother's house, expected to have a meeting with Huntly and was not well protected. Huntly's men set fire to the house and killed Moray. Huntly was arrested then pardoned, perhaps, some said, because King James VI had wanted Moray killed.

"1591-92, 22nd March — The following persons are denounced as rebels at a meeting of the Council, but (as pointed out in a note to the published edition of the Records), only for form's sake, and as a legal sequence to a charge previously made, in connection with the slaughter of the Earl of Murray at Donibristle,
viz., the Earl of Huntly, Sir Patrick Gordoun of Auchindoun, Sir Thomas Gordon of Cluny, William Gordon of Geycht, Robert Innes of Innermarky, Gordon of the Craig of Auchindoi, Johnne Gordoun of Cairnburrow, George Gordoun his brother (two named servitours of Innermarky), Patrick Gordoun of Letterfoury, Patrick Gordoun of Correchrie, John Gordoun of Auchannachie (nine others named), George Gordon of , George Gordon, brother to the goodman of Correchrie, Johnne Chalmers, sister's son to the laird of Geycht (and three others named), having failed to appear, as charged. "

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Received gift: of Abbey of Fearn erected into a feudal barony, August 1591, South East of Tain In Ross-Shire. ⁴

Patrick married Helen INNES, daughter of James INNES 3rd of Drainie and Katharine GORDON.^{1 2} (Helen INNES was born about 1560 and died after 1608.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick Gordon of Letterfurie married the Goodman of Drainies daughter Innes, with whom he begat five sons and Daughters, his eldest son James Gordon of Letterfurie, John Gordon of Coffurach, Tho. Gordon of Currydown, Robert Gordon Burgess in Elgin, and Mr Patrick Gordon ; one Daughter married the Goodman of Tannachy Stuart, one married John Ross of Bellivate, one married Walter Ross
of Badyvochell."

from Balbithan MS



"James Gordon IV. of Cairnfield was the grandson of Patrick Gordon II. of Letterfourie by his wife Helen Innes, who was alive in 1598 ('Aberdeenshire Sheriff Court Records,' i. 380), and who was the daughter of the laird of Drainie (Balbithan MS.). This Patrick had at least six sons and three daughters"

from Gordons of Cairnfield ^{1 2}