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GORDON, Alexander of Essie
(About 1397-)
LESLIE, Christian 'of Balquhain'
(About 1420-)
SPENS, Thomas Bishop of Galloway, then Bishop Aberdeen, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Right Reverend Mr
(About 1415-1480)
GORDON, John of Essie, and of Buckie
(About 1447-)
SPENS, Daughter 'of Boddam'
(About 1459-)
GORDON, Alexander 2nd of Buckie, Constable of Bog of Gight
(About 1488-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. DRUMMOND, Isabella

2. ELLIS, Margaret

GORDON, Alexander 2nd of Buckie, Constable of Bog of Gight 1 2

  • Born: About 1488
  • Marriage (1): DRUMMOND, Isabella 1
  • Partnership (2): ELLIS, Margaret

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Alexander married Isabella DRUMMOND, daughter of Sir John 'Bane' DRUMMOND of Innerpeffray and Daughter DRUMMOND.1 (Isabella DRUMMOND was born about 1505.)


  Marriage Notes:

"John Bane Drummond's youngeft daughter, Iffobella Drummond, went north with her cufine Margaret, Lady Gordone ; where fhe was married to Gordon of Buckie, who begot with her tuo fones and a daughter, married to ------- Gordon of Cairnbarrow, called Beffie Gordon : of her are [defcended] diverfe families of that name, which were called Drummond Gordons."

from House of Drummond




"His (John Gordon of Essie's) eldest son Alexander Gordon of Buckie married Jannet Drummond daughter to the Laird of Inchpafra, with whom he begat two Sons and a Daughter, viz, his eldest Son John Gordon of Buckie, and William Gordon of Aradowl ; his daughter Bessy married John Gordon of Cairnborrow ; also the said Alexander Gordon of Buckie begat on a Gentlewoman Margaret Ellis four natural Sons, viz, Thomas Gordon of Deskie, Alexander Gordon of Netherbuckie, George of Wellheads, and James of Invercharrach."

from Balbithan MS 1 2

Alexander had a relationship with Margaret ELLIS. (Margaret ELLIS was born about 1510.)


  Marriage Notes:

"His (John Gordon of Essie's) eldest son Alexander Gordon of Buckie .... begat on a Gentlewoman Margaret Ellis four natural Sons, viz, Thomas Gordon of Deskie, Alexander Gordon of Netherbuckie, George of Wellheads, and James of Invercharrach."

from Balbithan MS 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Genealogie of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Drummond by William Drummond (1889).

2 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Balbithan MS Buckie.

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