GORDON, James in Achdregnie ¹

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  General Notes:

"1612, July 28. A similar commission was granted the following year to George, Earl of Enzie, and several others, including James Gordon of Lesmoir, for the apprehension, trial, and punishment of James Gordon in Auchdregnie, his son and others, including James Grant in Fodderletter, brother to Patrick Grant of Carron, as broken men and 'committing oppin reiffs, privie stouthis slauchteris, etc.' (Littlejohn's Aberdeenshire Sheriff Court Records.).

This James Gordon in Auchdregnie was a son of George Gordon in Tombea by a Janet Grant. George in Tombea was a natural son of Alexander Gordon of Cluny, but along with his brother, William in Dalmore, got letters of legitimation under the Great Seal in 1553 (Balbithan MS., and Great Seal, June 24, 1553, iii., No. 804)."

from Lesmoir




"James Gordon in Achdrigny, now spelt Achdregnie, which is two miles south-east of Tombae. He had one son" (page 213)

"In any case, in 1604 James Gordon in Achdregnie (' in Auchdregin '), second son of George of Tombae, got into trouble at the expense of his parent house. In this he was associated with Finla Farquharson in Achriachan, William Grant in Over Downan, John Grant in Inverchebit, William Grant there, William Gordon in ' Dalmoir,' and Alexander Gordon, 'sometime in Downane, now in Waternadie.' The trouble was that they had not paid to Alexander Gordon 'of Stradoun,' their overlord (and Achdregnie's begetter), certain " violent profits" for lands of his occupied by them, and had refused to flit from the lands of Over Downan, Nether Downan, Over Drymmen, and Creuchlie, conform to a decree obtained by him against them on 1st and 8th February 1604, when they were put to the horn at the instance of Alexander Gordon ' of Stradoun.' He brought the case before the Privy Council on 27th June 1605, but none of the defendants appeared, and so the Captain of the Guard was ordered to apprehend and enter them, ' eject them furth of their houses, and inventory their goods for the king's use' (Privy Council Register, 1st series, vol. vii. p. 65)." (page 214)

"So far from being arrested, the Gordons were the subject of another Privy Council inquiry a year later, for on 28th July 1612, we find cited James Gordon in Achdregnie, ------- Gordon, his son; together with Thomas Gordon, John Gordon, and Patrick Gordon, sons of the late Patrick Gordon of Carriehoull - which I take to be Corriehoullie, four miles from Nethy Bridge - 'who is callit be ane too-name, the Katereine' " (page 215)

from The Caterans of Inveraven ^{1 2}

James married.