GORDON, John of Tilphoudie 1User ID: Z613. John married Elizabeth DUGUID, daughter of Francis DUGUID 7th of Auchinhove and Elizabeth SETON, in 1668.1 (Elizabeth DUGUID was born about 1650.) Marriage Notes: " 'When a lad of fifteen,' he objected to a marriage arranged for him with a lady more than three times that age, and without any tocher. The lad betook himself early one morning to his aunt, Mrs. Abercrombie, 'having no more thought of marriage than in the hour in which he was born'. Having 'drolled with his cousins, four or five young ladies, he fancied the eldest above any, mostly for her good humour, and desired she would continue single until he returned from Paris'. He made this proposal in the presence of the lady's mother, and when asked as to his sincerity, declared himself quite satisfied, naively adding 'that he did not know how to court'; a difficulty which he presumably overcame. 'This lady died in 1667, and the following year he married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Francis Duguid of Auchinhove " (Records of Aboyne, p. 272.)" |