GORDON, John of Law, then of Wardhouse and Kildrummy ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"The 3rd laird of Law, also named John, son of the above, became by purchase laird of Kildrummie and also of Wardhouse, having been retoured heir to Law in 1696."

from Gordons of Beldorney ¹

John married Daughter IRVINE, daughter of Reverend Mr Robert IRVINE Minister of Towie parish and Agnes MURRAY, by 15 March 1688(sasine).¹ (Daughter IRVINE was born about 1670.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The 3rd laird of Law, also laird of Wardhouse and Kildrummie, was twice married. John Gordon, by his first wife, a daughter of Mr Robert Irvine, minister of Towie, who was evidently a man of considerable means, had a son Arthur, and a daughter Mary, who married James Gordon, VIIIth laird of Beldorney, probably about 1722. Mr Robert Irvine, minister at the Kirk of Towie, and Agnes Murray, his spouse, got sasine on old Morlich 15 March 1688."

from Gordons of Beldorney ¹

John next married Mary BAIRD, daughter of William BAIRD of Auchmedden, Jacobite 1715 and Mary GORDON.^{1 2} (Mary BAIRD was born about 1695.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William Gordon, III. of Badenscoth .... married in 1724, Mary, daughter of William Baird of Auchmedden (by Mary, daughter of Robert Gordon of Straloch). She married (2) in 1738, Badenscoth's kinsman, John Gordon, III. of Law and of Wardhouse"

from Terpersie




"John Gordon married secondly Mary Baird, probably a daughter of Baird of Auchmedden ; at any rate one of the witnesses to the Deed of Entail of Wardhouse was William Baird of Auchmedden. (Information from Messrs Wilsone and Duffus, Aberdeen)."

from Gordons of Beldorney ^{1 2}