GORDON, Alexander 2nd of Knockespock 1 2Another name for Alexander was GORDON, Alexander of Boddam.1 User ID: K287. General Notes: "William Gordon, first laird of Knockespock by repute, was the third son of John Gordon of Essie by Spens, daughter and heretrix of Boddam, in the parish of Insch (Balb. MS., p. 57), and grandson of Alexander of Essie by Christian, daughter of Leslie of Balquhain. John is said to have sold Boddam and bought Buckie (Balb. MS., ibid), but perhaps he sold only part of Boddam, for Alexander Gordon of Boddam is mentioned as a witness to a charter granted by the Earl of Huntly in 1553 (R.M.S., III., No. 1295). This Alexander may have been William's eldest son. Again, William Spens of Boddam was witness to charters in 1527, 1535, and 1536 (R.M.S.); and John Spens was served heir to his father, William of Boddam, in 1579, and Alexander Spens, heir to John, his father, in 1586. Perhaps John Gordon of Essie's wife was heretrix of only part of Boddam, which may have been sold to a Spens, who owned the other part." Alexander married Daughter BAILLIE, daughter of Thomas BAILLIE of Ardneidlie and Katharine GORDON.1 (Daughter BAILLIE was born about 1527.) Marriage Notes: "His (William Gordon's) son Alexander Gordon of Knockespock married the Laird of Ardneedlies Daughter Bailie, Lady Asswanly, with whom he begat four sons and daughters, his eldest James of Knockespock, Mr Alxr Burgess in Elgin, Robert in Clat, and John Gordon of Bouges sherriff depute of Aberdeen ; his eldest daughter married William Gordon of Tillyangus." |
1 e-books, A Genealogical Account of the Family of Gordon of Knockespock by Douglas Wimberley (1903).
2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Balbithan MS Knockespock.
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