LEITH, William of Barnes, then of Edingarioch ¹

   User ID: W743.

William married Ann GORDON, daughter of Sir George GORDON 2nd Earl of Huntly, High Chancellor of Scotland and Unknown.¹ (Ann GORDON was born about 1480.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William Leith of Barnes, heir male of his brother George, acquired Edingarroch in 1499, from George Leslie of that Ilk. By his wife, Ann, daughter of George Gordon of Strathdon, he had two sons, lairds in succession."

from Inverurie and the Earldom of the Garioch

Note:

"Gordon of Strathdon", here, is an elusive designation. Strathdon, Strathawen, or Stradoun were designations linked to the Gordons of Huntly, the third earl's third son, Alexander Gordon (obit 1568) becoming "of Strathawen and of Cluny" or "of Strathoun" in the next century. Volume four of Scots Peerage says of him:

"Alexander of Strathoun. In 1539 he excambed Strathoun with his nephew, the fourth Earl, for the lands of Cluny, and from him are descended the Gordons of Cluny. He married Janet Grant, and had issue."

The same volume names, on page 531, two illegitimate children of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Alexander and Agnes, so it is not wholly unlikely that the wife of William Leith was also an illegitimate offspring of that earl. ^{1 2}