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GORDON, James 4th of Lesmoir, 1st Baronet, Sir
(About 1560-1637)
KEITH, Rebecca
(About 1565-)
URQUHART, Henry
(About 1559-1587)
OGILVY, Elizabeth
(About 1563-)
GORDON, James elder fiar of Lesmoir, Sir
(1590-1633)
URQUHART, Helen
(About 1590-)
GORDON, James younger fiar of Lesmoir
(About 1609-1634)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MENZIES, Margaret

GORDON, James younger fiar of Lesmoir 1 2

  • Born: About 1609
  • Marriage (1): MENZIES, Margaret by 19 March 1631 1 2
  • Died: July 1634 2
  • Buried: 1634, Essie Church, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2

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James married Margaret MENZIES, daughter of Gilbert MENZIES of Pitfodels, 'William of the Cup' and Margaret IRVINE, by 19 March 1631.1 2 (Margaret MENZIES was born about 1610.)


  Marriage Notes:

"(1) James (Gordon) He married Margaret Menzies, daughter of the laird of Pitfodels (Balbithan MS.), probably Gilbert. On March 19, 1631, James Gordon, eldest lawful son to Sir James Gordon, younger, knight-baronet, and Margaret Menzies, his spouse, had sasine in Newton-Garie. The Balbithan MS. says he died 'in July, 1634, before his grandfather, and was honourably interred in the Kirk of Essy,' August 6, 1634. The same authority says he had two sons : -

i. James, V. of Lesmoir, second baronet.

ii. A son."

from Lesmoir 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 2 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1907) Lesmoir by Douglas Wimberley.

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