GORDON, John Burgess of Guild, Aberdeen, Captain 1
- Born: About 1542
- Marriage (1): AUCHINLECK, Marjorie 1
- Died: 12 February 1591(1592)
Cause of his death was execution for murder of the Bonny Earl of Moray at Donibristle.1
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John married Marjorie AUCHINLECK, daughter of William AUCHINLECK of Schethin and Elizabeth CHEYNE.1 (Marjorie AUCHINLECK was born about 1545.)
Marriage Notes:
"On June, 1593, according to the Balquhain Charter, No. 659, quoted in the History of the Family of Leslie (in., 64), 'Marjory Gordon, relict of Captain John Gordon, brother of William Gordon of Gight, granted a letter of reversion of the lands of Kirkhill, containing the sum of 3000 merks, in favour of John Leslie of Balquhain'. The Balbithan MS. says that the Captain married the 'laird of Shevthins daughter Affleck, with whom he begat two daughters, and was killed at Dinnibersell without more succession'. Captain Gordon's widow, Marjorie Auchinleck, afterwards married Robert Burnet, parson of Oyne, who figures in Barclay's protocol, 1601, as having a large claim on the Gight estates on behalf of his wife (Davidson's Earldom of the Garioch, p. 242)."
from Gight 1
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