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SETON, Helen
(About 1630-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Thomas of Cloves

SETON, Helen 1 2

  • Born: About 1630
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Thomas of Cloves on 1 July 1668 in Aberdeen, Scotland 1 2 3

   Another name for Helen was SEATON, Helen.4

   User ID: H216.


Helen married Thomas GORDON of Cloves, son of Sir William GORDON 6th of Lesmoir, 3rd Baronet of Lesmoir and Christian WALKER 'of Peterhead', on 1 July 1668 in Aberdeen, Scotland.1 2 3 (Thomas GORDON of Cloves was born about 1625.)


  Marriage Notes:

"GORDOUN
THOMAS
HELEN SEATON/
01/07/1668
125
10 / 175
Alves"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Alves parish Moray
Marriages

"140 May 23d 1668, Thomas Gordoun in Claves presented a letter under Mr George Meldrum Minister at Abd his hand bearing the sd Thomas his contract matrimoniall with a Gentlrwoman called Helen Seaton, desyring the proclamation of yr bands, they were married at Abd ye first day of Julie 1668"




"Thomas (Gordon) married (2) at Aberdeen on July 1, 1668, Helen Seton (Scottish Notes and Queries, vii., 122). There is a note of this marriage in the Alves Register :

'On May 23, 1668, Thomas Gordoun in Claves presented a letter under Mr. George Meldrum, minister at Aberdeen, his hand, bearing the said Thomas his contract matrimoniall with a gentlewoman called Helen Seton desyring the proclamation of their bands. They were married at Aberdeen the first day of July, 1668.' "

from Lesmoir




"Thomas Gordon in Cloves .... was twice married - first, to Janet Brodie, who died in 1666 .... and, secondly, at Aberdeen, on 1st July, 1668, to Helen Seton, and they had at least one son, James, who became minister of Kinloss, and a daughter, Katherine"

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs 1 2 3 4

Sources


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

2 e-books, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions by John A. Henderson (1907).

3 Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Alves parish Moray Marriages.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Marriages.

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