DUFF, James of Bade ¹

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James married Jean GORDON, daughter of John GORDON 4th of Abachie (Avochie) and Daughter CAMPBELL.¹ (Jean GORDON was born about 1604.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Duff and Barbara Gordon had a son, also named James, who, on October 2, 1618, got a wadset for 2000 merks on the lands of Robieston then occupied by him (Gordon Castle Charters), and other charters and sasines, dated 1619, 1620, and 1621 (Ibid.). By the charter of February 12, 1620, James Duff of Bade (son of James Duff and Barbara Gordon) and his wife, Jean Gordon, a daughter of John Gordon, third of Avochie, grant reversion to the Marquis of Huntly of part of the lands of Hatton and Drumbulg, and a fresh charter is granted to them, by which they are infeft in the said lands, July 1, 1621." (page 452)

"On July 21, 1643, James Duff (the elder), with his spouse, Jean Duff, and their two younger sons, Adam and John Duff, were infeft in the dauch lands of Cairnwhelp (Rose MS.). James Duff must have died shortly after this date, as in the year 1648 Jean Gordon, deseribed as 'sometime spouse or relict,' is infeft in eight oxygates of Bade." (page 455)

from Book of the Duffs ¹