DUFF, Jean ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

"Jean to William Gordon of Birkenburn, and had fourteen children..."

"Jean, 1682, married, June 6, 1700, William Gordon of Birkenburn (who frequently writes to Alexander of Drummuir as ' affec. brother and servant '), and had five sons and eight daughters, all of whom died young, except three daughters : (1) Magdalen, born 1702, who married the Rev. John Stuart, minister of Llanbryde, and afterwards held Birkenburn; (2) Helen, born 1708, married the Rev. W. Miln, Inverkeithny; and (3) Isabel. The first Gordon of Birkenburn was a son of James Gordon of Lesmoir, and acquired Birkenburn in fee from the Bishop of Moray, 1556. The family lasted for six generations, and failed in the three co-heiresses mentioned. Beatrix Gordon, wife of Adam of Clunybeg, was great-aunt of the last William Gordon. "

from Book of the Duffs

  Research Notes:

WHICH DAUGHTER?

House of Gordon names Magdalen Duff as William's wife, whereas The Book of the Duffs names Jean, saying Magdalen married three times but not to William. ^{1 4}

Jean married William GORDON 6th Laird of Birkenburn, Commissioner of Supply for Banffshire, son of Alexander GORDON 5th Laird of Birkenburn, & Commissioner of Supply and Helen BISSET, on 6 June 1700.^{1 2} (William GORDON 6th Laird of Birkenburn, Commissioner of Supply for Banffshire was born about 1668 and died in 1740 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"William married, Thursday, June 6, 1700, Jean, daughter of William Duff, Provost of Inverness (who was the second son of the famous Adam Duff in Clunybeg). On May 27, 1700, there was signed at Birkenburn an obligation by William Gordon, younger of Birkenburn, by which, in respect that in his contract matrimonial with Jean Duff, daughter of William Duff, provost of Inverness, his father, Alexander Gordon, elder of Birkenburn, and his mother, Helen Bisset, disponed to him the lands of Birkenburn, with the reservation to themselves of one chalder of victual and one hundred merks Scots during their lifetime, he confirms the said allowance to his mother should she survive his father; and also assigns to his father a croft of land of three bolls of oats sowing and one boll of beir sowing, he to labour the said croft for his father, £20 annually being deducted from the 100 merks as the value of the croft; and 'the said Alex, and his spouse to have keale and petts out of the yarde and from the pettstake of Birkenburne yeerlie dureing all the days of their lyffe'; signed at Birkenburn May 27, 1700, before witnesses John Ogilvie of Old Cranache, wreiter heirof, and Johne Wilsone, servitor to the said William Gordone, and Johne McAndrew in Birkenburn (Petrie-Hay Papers)."

from Birkenburn ²