INNES, James of Drumgask, then 1st of Balnacraig, Jacobite 1745 ^{1 2 3}

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James married Catharine GORDON, daughter of Dr Alexander GORDON of Balnacraig then Keithmore, Jacobite 1715 & 1745 and Isobell MITCHELL.¹ (Catharine GORDON was born about 1710 ⁴ and died on 5 May 1790 in Balnacraig, Aboyne Parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Dr (Alexander) Gordon, of whom mention has been made more than once in the foregoing pages, had at one time owned the estate of Balnacraig, on Deeside. This he gave, in default of male heirs, during his lifetime to the eldest of his three daughters, who had married James Innes, of Drumgask, near Aboyne."

from Catholics of Scotland




Only two Deeside houses visited by Government troops appear to have escaped destruction - Balmoral Castle, the home of James Farquharson, 'Balmoral the Brave', which is described in records as very bad and was apparently unworthy of their attentions, and Balnacraig, saved from ruin by a clever piece of subterfuge by it's lady, Catherine Gordon, wife of James Innes of Balnacraig (a Jacobite)"

from The Story of the Aberdeenshire Dee ^{1 3}