GORDON, Henry of Dilspro
- Born: About 1548
- Marriage (1): FRASER, Christian by 24 August 1582 (Exchequer Rolls) 1
- Marriage (2): HEPBURN, Agnes by about 1599 1
Other names for Henry were GORDON, Harry of Govill,1 GORDON, Harry of Dalspro alias Haddo,1 GORDON, Harry of Dilespro and Savock,1 GORDON, Henry of Haddo,1 GORDOUN, Heary in Haddoche in Buchan,1 GORDOUNE, Harie of Dilspro 1 and GORDOUNE, Henry of Dilspro.1
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General Notes:
Harry Gordon is mentioned in the Sheriff Court Records of Aberdeenshire between 1604 and 1612.
"Harry of Dilspro was the son of Lesmoir's second wife and is designed in the Balbithan MS. (p. 43) as 'of Dilespro and Savock '. Dilspro was the old name for Grandholm (Coll. Aberdeen and Banff, i., 231). He began his career in the lands of Tulloch ('in the province of Cromar') of which his eldest brother, George's 'son natural,' Patrick, got a charter from John Forbes of Tolleis in 1562 (Records of Aboyne, pp. 102-3)."
from Lesmoir 1 2
Research Notes:
DILSPRO
"Dilspro was the old name for Grandholm (Coll. Aberdeen and Banff, i., 231)."
ELDEST
House of Gordon has Harry as the eldest son of this marriage; The Thanage of Fermartyn has Thomas as eldest. 1 3
Henry married Christian FRASER, daughter of Andrew FRASER of Stonywood and Margaret IRVINE, by 24 August 1582 (Exchequer Rolls).1 (Christian FRASER was born about 1545.)
Marriage Notes:
"Harry of Dilspro married (1) before 1582, Christian Fraser (Exchequer Rolls, xxx., 475). The 1600 Gordon MS. calls her widow of 'Haddoch'. She was the daughter of Andrew Fraser of Stoneywood, and she had married (by 1560) Patrick, son of James Gordon of Methlick and Haddo, who predeceased his father (Balfour Paul's Scots Peerage, i, 85, 86)."
"On August 24, 1582, Cristane Fraser ('nunc sponse Henrici Gordoun de Over Tulloch') had life rent in Haddo and Burnegranis (Exchequer Rolls, xxi., 475)."
from Lesmoir 1
Henry next married Agnes HEPBURN by about 1599.1 (Agnes HEPBURN was born about 1563.)
Marriage Notes:
"Harry married secondly (before ? ) 1599, Agnes Hepburn (as noted in the Great Seal). She may have been the daughter of Sir Patrick Hepburn of Wauchton to whom there was sasine in 1610 of the third part of the lands of Rawkstoun and Craigie. According to the 1600 Gordon MS. Agnes Hepburn 'has children' to Harry."
"On December 24, 1599, the King granted Harry 'of Tulloch' and his wife Agnes Hepburn, the lands of Mekil Govil with the fishings in the barony of Monycabok, to be held by Harry, then his son Thomas, and then John, brother german of Thomas (Great Seal). There is (in the Haddo charter chest) a charter of May 10, 1600, by James Gordon of Haddo to Henry Gordon of 'Delspro' and his wife, Agnes Hepburn, and Thomas, their son, of the lands of Saphak."
from Lesmoir 1
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