GORDON, Janet

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Janet married James CRICHTON of Frendraught and Auchingoul, son of Sir James CRICHTON of Frendraught and Johanna KEITH.¹ (James CRICHTON of Frendraught and Auchingoul was born about 1560 and died by 19 February 1620 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Gordon) (alive 1620), married James Crichton of Frendraught. According to the Balbithan MS. she married secondly Thomas Gordon of Grandholm (of the Abergeldie Family). James Crichton had charters of parts of the lands of Logie Altoun, March 31, 1592, and of Darley."

from Lesmoir



He (James Crichton) married Janet, daughter of Alexander Gordon of Lesmoir. She survived him, and married, secondly, Thomas Gordon of Grandoun. James Crichton had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ^{1 2}

Janet next married Thomas GORDON of Grandholm, Burgess of Aberdeen, son of Sir Alexander GORDON 4th of Abergeldie and Midmar and Janet IRVINE.² (Thomas GORDON of Grandholm, Burgess of Aberdeen was born about 1571.)

  Marriage Notes:

"According to the Collections on the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff (p. 231), Grandholm was called Dilspro 'while possessed by the Jaffrays'. In 1626 Thomas Gordon of Dilspro was caution in £20 (Privy Council Register) that Sir James Gordon of Lesmoir (whose sister Thomas Gordon of Grandholm married) should pay his College of Heralds bill (Sir James was made a baronet in 1625). Dilspro had belonged to the Lesmoir Gordons, for the first Laird of Lesmoir had a son Harry of Dilspro. In Nov., 1638, Thomas Gordon, 'late of Dilspro,' resigned the shady half of the lands of old Govill in New Machar to John Kintie."


"Janet, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Laird of Lesmoir, and widow of James Crichton of Frendraught, whose son was the host of Lord Aboyne when the latter was burned at Frendraught in 1630. (A Thomas Gordon appears in 1635 as one of the Gordons called on to give caution for their good behaviour, especially in view of the Frendraught affair.)"

from Lesmoir ¹