GORDON, Jean of Thomastown, in Drumblade

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Jean married Reverend Mr George CHALMERS Minister of Rhynie, son of Reverend Mr George CHALMERS of Easter Tyrie and Peterstorm, Minister of Kinnoir and Dunbennan parish and Unknown, in 1646. (Reverend Mr George CHALMERS Minister of Rhynie was born in 1616 and died on 3 April 1660.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Rhynie in 1643)

"George Chalmers, born 1616, third son of George C., min. of Kinnoir and Dunbennan [Huntly]; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1632); schoolmaster of Inveraven, 1634-5; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen and had a testimonial from that Presb. 22nd April 1642; pres. by George, Marquess of Huntly, in Aug. 1642; ord. (assistant and successor) Feb. 1643; died 3rd April 1660. He marr. in 1646, Jean Gordon of Thomastown, in Drumblade, who died at Elgin 25th July 1691, and had issue Hugh, min. of Marnoch; George, min. of Drumblade; Jean (marr. 8th July 1671, Thomas Spens of Inchstellie), died 22nd Feb. 1687; Margaret (marr. John Grant, merchant, Elgin). [Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 31, 139; Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 250; Moray Tests."

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹