GORDON, Mary ^{1 2}

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Mary married William BAIRD 6th of Auchmedden, historian, Jacobite 1715, son of James BAIRD younger of Auchmedden, (joint) Sheriff of Banff and Catherine HAY, in 1698.¹ (William BAIRD 6th of Auchmedden, historian, Jacobite 1715 was born in 1676 ¹ and died in 1720 in London, England ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Baird (see Note below), VI of Auchmedden (1676-1720), son of James Baird (1648-1681), younger of Auchmedden, by his wife Katherine Hay, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kinnoull. The valued rent of Auchmedden in 1696 was £666 13s 4d. The Poll Book (ii. 71-76) gives a full account of himself and his tenants. There were apparently twelve farms - Bankhead, Clenterie, Glenhowses, Glenquithell, Kinbeam,Lembess, Little Byth, Mains of Auchmedden, Mill of Auchmedden, Overton, Pennan, Seaton and Towie. Auchmedden was twice married, first in 1698 to Mary Gordon (d. 1710), daughter of Robert Gordon of Straloch, and great-granddaughter of Robert, the Great Straloch : and secondly to Elizabeth Abercrombie, of the Glassaugh family. He died in London in 1720, being succeeded by his son, the last of the original Bairds of Auchmedden, William Baird (1701-75), VII of Auchmedden, the historian of the family."

from The Bairds of Auchmedden

Note:

Bulloch refers to this laird as 'James Baird', where others sources, including primary sources, call him William, including the Aberdour parish register of baptisms which recorded his son, William's baptism in 1701, and William's own history of the Baird family. ^{1 3 4}