GORDON, John of Leitcheston 1
Another name for John was GARDEN, John of Lichenstoun.3 User ID: W785. General Notes: "The Elphinstone-Dalrymple MS. of 1600 (usually ascribed to 1580), says Lesmoir left to his 'sixt son John Gordone certaine wodsett lands and sowmes of money when he died but no possessions, by which he made to himself a gentleman's living and dwelt in the Enzie at Leichestone.' " Research Notes: LICHESTON John married Elizabeth ABERNETHY, daughter of Michael ABERNETHY of Saltoun and Margaret GORDON.1 (Elizabeth ABERNETHY was born about 1543.) Marriage Notes: "Alexander Gordon (of Birkenburn) married (1) Margaret Gordon (Balbithan MS., I5, 33), eldest daughter of George Gordon of Cairnburrow. She had first married Michael Abernethy, son of Lord Saltoun, by whom she had a daughter, who married her third husband's younger brother, John Gordon of Leichestoun." John next married Christian KEITH 'Lady Boig', daughter of Alexander KEITH of Troup and Agnes CHEYNE.2 (Christian KEITH 'Lady Boig' was born about 1564 and died on 8 April 1587 2.) Marriage Notes: "On April 8, 1587, Christian Keith, 'wife of John Gordon of Leichestoun, died'. The 1600 MS. calls her 'Lady Boig, lawful daughter to Alexander Keith of Troup,' and says he got with her a fair living, but mentions no children. Her will was given up by Alexander Stewart, indweller in Edinburgh, her lawful son an executor ; confirmed March 15, 1594." John next married Marjory OGILVY 'Lady Birkenbog', daughter of Alexander OGILVY younger, of Cardell and Barbara OGILVY.1 (Marjory OGILVY 'Lady Birkenbog' was born about 1558.) Marriage Notes: "Leichestoun's third wife (he married her before 1592) was Marjory Ogilvy. The Balbithan MS. (p. 49) calls her 'the laird of Findlater's daughter, Ogilvy, Lady Birkenbog'. The 1600 MS. calls her 'Lady Leyis in the Boyne, daughter to Alexander Ogilvie of Cullen, yong Laird of Finlatter', On page 47 of the Balbithan MS. she is spoken of as 'blind Lady Lichestoun,' and is called 'a daughter of the Earle of Findlater, Ogilvy'. The story of her blindness is borne out in a charter of 1632, which she signs by notaries, 'be resson off the blindness of my eyes'. Alexander Abercromby, who was murdered in 1594, describes her (1592) as his 'dochter-in-law'. She may have been the widow of Abercromby's eldest son, Alexander, of Galcors, 'who may be Alexander Abercromby of Ley, slain through the witchcraft of Jonet Grant before 1590" (Tragic History of the Abercrombies, p. 16)." |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Leichestoun by J.M. Bulloch assisted by D. Wimberley.
2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907).
3 e-books, The Rulers of Strathspey: A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield by the Earl of Cassillis (1911).
4 Internet Site, http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/moray/detail.aspx?tab=maps&refno=NJ46SW0040.
5 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Cadets of Lesmoir: Birkenburn by Captain Douglas Wimberley.
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