KING, Cecilia ¹

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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 GARDYNE, 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.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander Gordon, who was Baillie of Badenoch, was Huntly's right hand man. Like his father, he was a strong anti-Covenanter. Thus, on May 22, 1647, the General Assembly ordered his ex-communication ('Commissions of the General Assembly,' Scot. Hist. Soc. xi. 243), and it was carried out on June 9, 1647 ('Records of Elgin,' ii. 256, and the 'Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 75).

In Cramond's 'Kirk-Session of Elgin Records,' he is described at this date as 'younger' of Arradoul. In 1648 he gave in a supplication to the Presbytery of Fordyce to be 'relaxit from the dreadful rule of excommunication pronounced against him be the commission of the kirk' (ibid.); and on Feb. 23, 1648, he 'confessed access to the last rebellion, and subscribed the bond' ('Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 85). On June 20, 1649, the Presbytery of Rathven recommended to the General Assembly that Alexander Gordon, 'son to William Gordon of Arradoul', might be relaxed (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven';). On March 4, 1651, Alexander Gordon, 'in Aradoul,' returning from the Commission of the Church, presented an ordinance to the Presbytery of Rathven from the Commission requiring a particular testimony anent the guiltiness and sense thereof and signs of renentance in the said Alexander. On April 2, Mr. William Scroggie, the minister of Rathven. reported that he had received the said Alexander, who 'caried himself verie humblie and penitently in acknowledging of all his offences' (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven')." (pages 49 and 50)

"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 Presbyterv 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').On June 5, 1684, there was registered the receipt for stipend by Sir James Strachan of Thornton, minister of Keith, for crop and vear 1683, from lands of Maislie life-rented by Cecilia King, relict of umqll. Aradoule..." (page 52)

from Gordons of Cairnfield ¹