GORDON, Thomas of Cloves ³

   Other names for Thomas were GORDON, Thomas in Cloves - or Monauchty,² GORDON, Thomas of Monaughty,¹ GORDONE, Thomas ¹ and GORDOUN, Thomas of Claves.¹

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  General Notes:

"Thomas, of Monaughty, in the parish of Alves, Morayshire. The lands of Monaughty and Newlands of Monaughty are included in the lands to which the successive Earls of Moray were retoured heirs from 1602 to 1653. Monaughty was purchased by Alexander Brodie of Brodie, sasine Dec. 31, 1652 (Elgin Sasines), and remained part of the Brodie estates till they were exposed to judicial sale in 1774. The Earl Fife bought them and resettled the portion west of the Findhorn on the laird of Brodie (his brother-in-law) and his heirs, but retained the portion lying to the east of that river, of which he sold parts, but kept as part of the Fife estates Monaughty, Asliesk and Spynie (History of Nairn, pp. 433-4). 'Thomas Gordone, brother germane to the laird of Lesmore,' witnessed a precept of clare constat granted at Forres, May 22, 1658, by Alexander Brodie of Lethen to Alexander Gordon, as heir of William Gordon of Tulloch, his father, in Glengerack, etc. (Banffshire Sasines)."

from Lesmoir ¹

Thomas married Janet BRODIE, daughter of David BRODIE 14th of that Ilk and Katherine DUNBAR.^{1 2} (Janet BRODIE was born about 1630 and died on 20 September 1666 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (Thomas Gordon's) first wife was Janet Brodie, sister of Alexander Brodie of Brodie. She evidently had provision by a bond over Monaughty, and during her married life occupied the house, and so he would have been styled 'in Monaughty'. A deed of exoneration dated at Brodie on October 19, 1683, and recorded in the Elgin Commissary Records on November 3, 1683, contains the following statement:

'I, Alexander Gordone, eldest son to Thomas Gordone, brother to the Laird of Lismore, for myself and as taking burden on me for Williame Gordone, my brother german, onlie children procreat betwixt my said father and Janet Brodie, our mother, be thir presents grant me to have received compleat satisfaction from my said father of the hail soumes providit by the contract of marriage past betwixt my said father and mother to the children of that marriage'.

Janet Brodie died September 20, 1666 (AIves Register of Deaths)."

from Lesmoir




"Thomas Gordon in Cloves - or Monauchty - in the parish of Alves, near Elgin, was the third son of Sir William Gordon, third Baronet of Lesmoir, and his wife, Christian Walker. He was twice married - first, to Janet Brodie, who died in 1666, survived by two sons, Alexander and William; and, secondly, at Aberdeen, on 1st July, 1668, to Helen Seton"

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs ^{1 2}

Thomas next married Helen SETON on 1 July 1668.^{1 2} (Helen SETON was born about 1630.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas married (2) at Aberdeen on July 1, 1668, Helen Seton (Scottish Notes and Queries, vii., 122). There is a note of this marriage in the Alves Register :

'On May 23, 1668, Thomas Gordoun in Claves presented a letter under Mr. George Meldrum, minister at Aberdeen, his hand, bearing the said Thomas his contract matrimoniall with a gentlewoman called Helen Seton desyring the proclamation of their bands. They were married at Aberdeen the first day of July, 1668.' "

from Lesmoir




"Thomas Gordon in Cloves .... was twice married - first, to Janet Brodie, who died in 1666 .... and, secondly, at Aberdeen, on 1st July, 1668, to Helen Seton, and they had at least one son, James, who became minister of Kinloss, and a daughter, Katherine"

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs ^{1 2}