BAIRD, Katharine ¹

   Another name for Katharine was BAIRD, Katherine.²

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Katharine married Alexander GORDON 3rd of Blelack, son of John GORDON 2nd of Blelack and Cristan LUMSDEN, on 26 November 1604.^{1 2} (Alexander GORDON 3rd of Blelack was born about 1577 and died in August 1650 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (John Gordon's) eldest Son the said Alexander Gordon of Blelack married the goodman of Achmeddens daughter Katharine Baird with whom he had no succession. The said Alexander Gordon bought the Lands of Proney and died in Peace in Culldrain in August 1650 years.

His brother Son (ie his nephew) John Gordon of Blelack succeeded ...."

from Balbithan MS




"Gordon of Blelack was an old family in Aberdeenshire. Alexander Gordon of Blelack married, Nov. 26, 1604, Katherine, daughter of Gilbert Baird, of Auchmedden. - Vide 'History of the Baird Family,' by W. N. Fraser, Esq., of Tornaveen, a representative of Auchmeddden."

from Monumental Inscriptions ^{1 2}