GORDON, George 7th of Gight ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"George Gordon, VII. of Gight.

(Son of VI.)

I do not know when the seventh laird was born, but he was described by the Privy Council in 1618 as 'ane young boy'. His career was almost as stormy as his father's."

from Gight ²

George married Elizabeth OGILVY, daughter of James OGILVY 6th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie and Jean RUTHVEN, 1 November 1620(contract).¹ (Elizabeth OGILVY was born about 1602.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Elisabeth (Ogilvy), married (contract dated 1 November 1620) to George Gordon of Gight."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"(George Gordon 7th of) Gight married Lady Elizabeth Ogilvy, daughter of the sixth Lord Ogilvy of Airlie (died 1616) and sister of the first Earl of Airlie (died 1648), whose wife (a daughter of the Earl of Haddington) is the heroine of the well-known ballad, 'The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie'. In 1624 Gight was described as an 'apostate,' and his wife as a 'recussant' (Mair's Presbytery of Ellon, p. 67)."

from Gight ^{1 2}