GORDON, Thomas of Pittendreich in Elgin
User ID: C287. Thomas married Anna GORDON, daughter of William GORDON 5th of Gight and Isobel OCHTERLONY.1 (Anna GORDON was born about 1586.) Marriage Notes: "Anna (Gordon) married ... (2) Thomas Gordon of Pittendreich, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Gordon of Cluny (by Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Angus), and brother of Sir Alexander Gordon of Cluny and of Patrick Gordon of Ruthven, who wrote Britane's Distemper. Pittendreich was implicated in an attack in Aberdeen, March 26, 1644 (Spalding's Troubles, p. 330). Sir Thomas Gordon of Cluny was caution to the Privy Council for the sixth laird of Gight in connection with the murder of Francis Hay in 1617. On Feb. 28, 1629, Anna Gordon, spouse to Thomas Gordon of Tulloch, was infeft in the lands of Pittendreich. On June 4, 1674, Thomas Gordon of Pittendreich was given as the liferenter of Tulloch, the laird of which was then a minor (Records of the Meeting of the Exercise of AIford, p. 225)." |