GORDON, Alexander 4th of Arradoul and Bailie of Badenoch, Captain 1
- Born: About 1612
- Marriage (1): ROSS, Helen 1
- Marriage (2): KING, Cecilia before 24 September 1675 1
- Died: Before 5 June 1684 1
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General Notes:
"(Gordon), Alexander, de Arradoull, h. Jacobi de Arradoull, fratris germani, in villis et terris de Arradoull extendentibus ad 8 bovatas terrarum, infra dominium de Einzie et parochiam de Raphane. E. 20!., etc., feudifermae
I. S. (Banff), 23 Jul. 1663"
from Services of Heirs
"121- Alexander. . Capt. ; 2nd son of William of Knockespock (alive in 1642) and his wife Helen Gordon Balbithan MS.)."
from Gordons Under Arms 2 3
Noted events in his life were:
1. Admitted: Burgess of Guild, 6 September 1664, Aberdeen. 1
2. Admitted: Commissioner of Supply, 6 September 1664, Inverness-shire, Scotland. 1
3. Acting as: Elder, 26 August 1675, Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland. 1
4. Admitted: Commissioner of Supply, 1678, Banffshire, Scotland. 1
Alexander married Helen ROSS, daughter of Captain James ROSE of Allanbuie and Unknown.1 (Helen ROSS was born about 1638.)
Marriage Notes:
"1677, Nov. 27. - Sasine to George and James Gordon, sons to Alexander Gordon of Arradoul and Helen Ross, daughter to James Ross of Allanbuie, in liferent of an annual rent of 600 merks out of the lands of Haughs, Forgie, and others ('Banff Sasines')."
from Gordons of Cairnfield 1
Alexander next married Cecilia KING before 24 September 1675.1 (Cecilia KING was born about 1630, died on 14 November 1707 1 and was buried on 21 November 1707 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Alexander Gordon, who was Baillie of Badenoch, was Huntly's right hand man. Like his father, he was a strong anti-Covenanter. Thus, on May 22, 1647, the General Assembly ordered his ex-communication ('Commissions of the General Assembly,' Scot. Hist. Soc. xi. 243), and it was carried out on June 9, 1647 ('Records of Elgin,' ii. 256, and the 'Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 75).
In Cramond's 'Kirk-Session of Elgin Records,' he is described at this date as 'younger' of Arradoul. In 1648 he gave in a supplication to the Presbytery of Fordyce to be 'relaxit from the dreadful rule of excommunication pronounced against him be the commission of the kirk' (ibid.); and on Feb. 23, 1648, he 'confessed access to the last rebellion, and subscribed the bond' ('Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 85). On June 20, 1649, the Presbytery of Rathven recommended to the General Assembly that Alexander Gordon, 'son to William Gordon of Arradoul', might be relaxed (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven';). On March 4, 1651, Alexander Gordon, 'in Aradoul,' returning from the Commission of the Church, presented an ordinance to the Presbytery of Rathven from the Commission requiring a particular testimony anent the guiltiness and sense thereof and signs of renentance in the said Alexander. On April 2, Mr. William Scroggie, the minister of Rathven. reported that he had received the said Alexander, who 'caried himself verie humblie and penitently in acknowledging of all his offences' (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven')." (pages 49 and 50)
"Alexander Gordon married Cecilia King. The Elphinstone Dalrymple MS. calls her a daughter of Colonel King. She seems to have been jilted by John Gordon of Buckie, for at a meeting of the Presbytery of Rathven on January 27, 1675, when John Gordon of Buckie contracted with Margaret Gordon, daughter of the laird of 'Glengairrock,' and was proclaimed, Cecilia King asserted that she had a 'privie promise of mariage of the said John.' The Presbyterv found the objections not relevant. In the same year Cecilia King (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven,' p. 29) married Alexander Gordon of Arradoul, and on Sept. 24, 1675, had with him sasine on the lands of Maislie, Grange of Strathillae, Coldhome, Boiglogie, Muirefauld, Clerkseat, Boigie, Auchindarrin, and Garrowood [in the parishes of Keith and Grange] ('Banffshire Sasines').On June 5, 1684, there was registered the receipt for stipend by Sir James Strachan of Thornton, minister of Keith, for crop and vear 1683, from lands of Maislie life-rented by Cecilia King, relict of umqll. Aradoule..." (page 52)
from Gordons of Cairnfield 1
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