GORDON, John of Cluny (of the First House) 1User ID: X846. General Notes: "Their Father the said John Gordon Laird of Cluny built the Castle of Blairfindy and dyed therein anno 1586." John married Margaret GORDON, daughter of Thomas GORDON of Auchenhuive and Cracullie and Daughter DRUMMOND 'of Innerpeffray'.1 (Margaret GORDON was born about 1534.) Marriage Notes: "His (Alexander 2nd of Strathawen's) Brother John Gordon succeeded to the Estate of Cluny. He married Thomas Gordon of Auchenheif and Goodman of Cracullie's daughter Margaret Gordon with whom he begat two sons and five daughters, his eldest son Sir Thomas Gordon, and John Gordon of Bissmoire; his eldest daughter married the Laird of Pitcaple Lesly, one married the Laird of Cubbardy Murray, one the Laird of Craigievarr Mortimer, one married the Laird of Pittodrie Ereskine, and the fifth married John Grant of Carron." (page 20) |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) The Balbithan MS.
2 e-books, Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire by H. Gordon Slade (1981) Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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