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GORDON, Alexander of Drumin, Bailie of Badenoch and Strathavon
(About 1449-1504)
LOGAN, Christan
(About 1462-)
BAILLIE, Thomas of Ardneidlie
(About 1480-)
GORDON, Katharine
(About 1484-)
BAILLIE, Daughter 'Lady Asswanly'
(About 1521-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. CALDER, Elder Son of Aswanley

2. GORDON, Alexander 2nd of Knockespock

BAILLIE, Daughter 'Lady Asswanly' 1 2

  • Born: About 1521
  • Marriage (1): CALDER, Elder Son of Aswanley 1
  • Marriage (2): GORDON, Alexander 2nd of Knockespock 2

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Daughter married Elder Son CALDER of Aswanley, son of Robert CALDER of Aswanley and Unknown.1 (Elder Son CALDER of Aswanley was born about 1509.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Knockespock' s wife was probably the relict of a Calder of Aswanley."

from Gordon of Knockespock 1

Daughter next married Alexander GORDON 2nd of Knockespock, son of William GORDON 1st of Knockespock and Margaret DUGUID.2 (Alexander GORDON 2nd of Knockespock was born about 1520 and died probably before 1589 2.)


  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."

from Balbithan MS




"Alexander (Gordon), second laird of Knockespock succeeded his father. He married, according to the Balbithan MS., p. 63, 'a daughter of Baillie of Ardneidlie, lady Aswanly.' Baillie's designation is given as 'of Ardnilly' in Records of Aboyne, p. 179. The place mentioned is, I presume, Arndilly, on the Spey. It was, I believe, formerly in the parish of Keith, is now in that of Boharm ; had been part of the possessions of the Earls of Huntly, but had been disponed to the family of Baillie, and later was subfeued by them to the Meldrums of Eden. Thomas Baillie of Ardneidlie seems to have married Katharine Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon of Drumin, of the Buckie family, as her second husband. These Baillies were cadets of the Lamington family. (See Balb. MS., p. 57, and Records of Aboyne, p. 179.) Knockespock' s wife was probably the relict of a Calder of Aswanley. Thomas Bailye of Arnely was a witness to a charter granted by the Earl of Huntly to John Gordoun, then Ogilvy, in 1545 (R.M.S.. II., 3261).

The 2nd laird of Knockespock had by his wife, Ardneidlie's daughter, 4 sons and 3 daughters, viz.

I. James, afterwards of Knockespock.

II. Mr Alexander Gordon, burgess in Elgin, married (1st) Marjory Grant, (2nd) Anne, daughter of the laird of Strathawen.

III. Robert in Clatt, mentioned as 'in Towie'' in 1590 (Reg. Priv. Co., IV., p. 473).

IV. John of Bouges (or Boigges), Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, who married Arbuthnott (Balb. MS., p. 64).

1. A daughter, married William Gordoun of Tulliangus.

2. A daughter.

3. A daughter. (Mostly from Balb. MS., p 63.)"

from Gordon of Knockespock 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Balbithan MS Knockespock.

2 e-books, A Genealogical Account of the Family of Gordon of Knockespock by Douglas Wimberley (1903).

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