KING, Cecilia ¹

  General Notes:

"Alexander Gordon married Cecilia King. The Elphinstone Dalrymple MS. calls her a daughter of Colonel King. She seems to have been jilted by John Gordon of Buckie, for at a meeting of the Presbytery of Rathven on January 27, 1675, when John Gordon of Buckie contracted with Margaret Gordon, daughter of the laird of 'Glengairrock,' and was proclaimed, Cecilia King asserted that she had a 'privie promise of mariage of the said John.' The Presbytery found the objections not relevant. In the same year Cecilia King (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven,' p. 29) married Alexander Gordon of Arradoul, and on Sept. 24, 1675, had with him sasine on the lands of Maislie, Grange of Strathillae, Coldhome, Boiglogie, Muirefauld, Clerkseat, Boigie, Auchindarrin, and Garrowood [in the parishes of Keith and Grange] ('Banffshire Sasines')."

from Gordons of Cairnfield ¹

Cecilia married Captain Alexander GORDON 4th of Arradoul and Bailie of Badenoch, son of William GORDON 4th of Knockespock, and 2nd of Arradoul and Helen GARDEN, before 24 September 1675.¹ (Captain Alexander GORDON 4th of Arradoul and Bailie of Badenoch was born about 1612 and died before 5 June 1684 ¹.)