WOOD, Isobel ²

   Another name for Isobel was WOOD, Isobell of Bonnytown.^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"GIGHT'S REPUDIATION OF THE 'TREW' RELIGION.

Between 1597 and 1616 Gight carried on a constant battle against the 'trew religion'. In this he was supported by his wife, Isobel Wood, of the Bonnyton family. The Woods were Papists, and the Presbytery Records of Ellon (which Mr. Mair has summarised) teem with reference to their heresy. Gight was in constant conflict with the Reformed Church, and was accused of harbouring 'masse priests,' who went about the country disguised as 'medicinars'."

"In 1597 the Presbytery of Ellon learned that Gight (who then lived at Little Ardo) and Isobel Wood had 'laitlye caused ane popish priest to baptise ane bairne to them'. Gight retorted that the minister of Tarves had declined to baptise 'ye first of ye four bairnes'.

Gight and his wife excommunicated, 1601. In January, 1601, Mrs. Gordon was excommunicated, 'as nothing is seen in her bot contumacie,' and in the following September Gight was excommunicated .... On April, 1601, he was summoned to Aberdeen by the Presbyteries of Aberdeen and Ellon under pain of excommunication, but he did not appear. A letter was received from the Marquis of Huntly pointing out that George had ridden south with him 'chairgit in his majesties adois'. Gordon himself sent a letter, adding in addition to Huntly's excuse, that his brother-in-law, young Wood of Bonnyton, was in danger of his life at Edinburgh, 'and to be executed as he fearit this xxiii of Aprile'."

from Gight ²

Isobel married George GORDON 6th of Gight, son of William GORDON 5th of Gight and Isobel OCHTERLONY, before 1597.^{1 2} (George GORDON 6th of Gight was born about 1561 and died in November 1640 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (William Gordon's) eldest son George Gordon Sixth Laird of Gight, married the Laird of Bonnytown's Daughter Wood, with whom he begat two sons and three Daughters,"

from Balbithan MS




"Gight was twice married : (1) before 1597 to Isobell, the daughter of Sir Patrick Wood of Bonnyton the name of his lands in Udny and in Forfarshire [...]

Mr. Mair, in his Presbytery Records of Ellon (p. 8), notes that Gight's first wife (Isobell Wood) bore him at least five children before 1597. The Balbithan MS. says that the first wife bore Gight two sons and three daughters, and that his second wife bore him a son and a daughter. " (page 98)

"This was the third alliance of the Gight Gordons with Forfarshire women, for Patrick's father, William, V. of Gight, married an Ochterlony, while his brother, George, VI. of Gight, married Isobell Wood of the House of Bonnyton." (page 61)

from Gight ^{1 2}