GORDON, Alexander 6th of Blelack 2
Other names for Alexander were GORDONNE, Alexr 4 and GORDOUNE, Alesr.1 User ID: H92. General Notes: "Gordon, Alexander, gentleman, brother to and principal tenant of Charles of Blelack, Invernochtie, and his wife. I. 542." Noted events in his life were: 1. Witness: at the baptisms of William and Barbara Gordon, twins, 9 April 1697, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 4 Alexander married Barbara STEWART, daughter of Thomas STEWART 3rd of Drumin and Lilias GRANT, on 11 July 1695 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 (Barbara STEWART was born about 1671.) Marriage Notes: Old Parish Registers Alexander next married Isobel FORBES, daughter of William FORBES of Belnabodach and Mary STEWART.2 (Isobel FORBES was baptised on 30 March 1685 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 6.) Marriage Notes: "Gordon, Alexander of Blelack .... Married .... secondly to Isobel Forbes, who was described as 'a masculine character', and had two sons, John and Charles." |
1 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Strathdon parish Aberdeenshire Marriages.
2 e-books, Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 North East Scotland by Frances McDonnell (in paper Clearfield 1996).
3 e-books, The House of Gordon III: Gordons Under Arms by C.O.Skelton and J.M.Bulloch (1912).
4 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Strathdon parish Aberdeenshire Baptisms.
5 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Appendix ll Pollable Persons.
6 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.
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