GORDON, Thomas of Cloves 3Other 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 User ID: H215. 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)." 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: 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 : |
1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Lesmoir by Douglas Wimberley.
2 e-books, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions by John A. Henderson (1907).
3 e-books, Scottish Episcopal Clergy 1689-2000 ed. David Bertie (in paper 2001).
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