LYON, Elizabeth ^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

ELIZABETH LYON X2

According to Scots Peerage, volume eight, there were two women, of two successive generations, who married a Gordon Earl of Aboyne. The details and out these two women will be found first on page 299, and the second on page 303, of that book. The first lady married once. The second lady married three times.

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Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne, who died in March 1681, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne on 28 August 1665. The first Elizabeth Lyon was her husband's fourth cousin.

2

Charles Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aboyne who died in April 1702, married Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. After the death of Charles Gordon, this Elizabeth Lyon married Patrick, 3rd Lord Kinnaird. After her second husband's death she married Captain Alexander Grant of Grantsfield. The second Elizabeth Lyon died in 1739. She was her husband's first cousin. ²

Elizabeth married Charles GORDON 1st Earl of Aboyne, Lord Strathavon and Glenlivet, son of George GORDON 7th Earl, 2nd Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Enzie and Viscount Aboyne and Anne CAMPBELL, 28 August 1665(contract).^{1 2} (Charles GORDON 1st Earl of Aboyne, Lord Strathavon and Glenlivet was born about 1628 and died in March 1681 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Elizabeth (Lyon), married (contract 28 August 1665) to Charles, first Earl of Aboyne."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"Lady Elizabeth Lyon was the daughter of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne and Lady Elizabeth Maule. A contract for the marriage of Lady Elizabeth Lyon and Charles Gordon, 1st Earl of Aboyne was signed on 28 August 1665."

from thepeerage.com website ^{1 2}