OGILVY, Elizabeth ^{1 2}

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Elizabeth married George GORDON 7th of Gight, son of George GORDON 6th of Gight and Isobel WOOD, 1 November 1620(contract).¹ (George GORDON 7th of Gight was born about 1603 and died after May 1648 in prison, Scotland ².)

  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}