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OGILVY, George of Dunlugas and Banff, Provost of Banff, Sir
(About 1532-1621)
SETON, Beatrix
(About 1535-)
ABERNETHY, William of Birnes
(About 1538-)
OGILVY, Marie
(About 1537-)
OGILVY, James of Blarok, Depute Sheriff of Banff
(About 1560-1617)
ABERNETHY, Elspeth
(About 1565-)
OGILVY, James younger, of Blarock (Blerack)
(About 1585-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Marjory

OGILVY, James younger, of Blarock (Blerack) 1 3

  • Born: About 1585
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Marjory after 18 August 1604 1 2

   Another name for James was OGILVY, James of Bleraik.2

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James married Marjory GORDON, daughter of George GORDON 3rd of Coclarachie and Bessie DUNCAN, after 18 August 1604.1 2 (Marjory GORDON was born about 1590 and died after 11 August 1639.)


  Marriage Notes:

"1639, Aug. 11 - George Gordon of Nethermuir as Sheriff Depute executed at Auchleuchries a commission, whereby Marjorie Gordon, wife of James Ogilvie of Auchleuchries, renounced her rights to the Mains of Auchleuchries in favour of her son-in-law, John Gordon, then of Auchleuchries (Ibid. ii., 478)."

from Gordons of Nethermuir




"Marjorie (Gordon). She married (1604) James Ogilvy, younger of Blerack, and had a daughter, Marie, who married (1633) John Gordon of Auchleuchries and had issue, of whom the second son, Patrick, became a General in the Russian army, and had, by his first wife, a daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, who married Major-General Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul."

from Coclarachie




"On the 18th of August, 1604, Abraham Forbes appeared at Aberdeen as a witness to a charter by which James Ogilvy of Bleraik granted to Marjorie Gordon, daughter of George Gordon of Cocklarachie, and future spouse of James Ogilvy, son and heirapparent of the said James Ogilvy of Blerock, 'the town and lands of Eister Toune of Auchlewchres, with the Milne and Milne lands in liferent for all the days of her life.' "

from Two Scottish Soldiers and A Jacobite Laird 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 1 ed. John Malcolm Bulloch (1903) Coclarachie by Stephen Ree.

2 e-books, Two Scottish Soldiers and A Jacobite Laird by James Ferguson (1888).

3 e-books, The Gordons of Nethermuir by John Malcolm Bulloch (1913).

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