James Gordon, of the Welsh Fusiliers

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James Gordon, of the Welsh Fusiliers

Birthdate:
Death: 1752
Boreland of Balmaghie
Immediate Family:

Son of Alexander Gordon, 5th Viscount Kenmure and Lady Grizel Grizel Gordon
Husband of Grizel Gordon
Father of Grissel Gordon, #2
Brother of Isabel McGhie; Mary Gordon and John Gordon of Greenlaw
Half brother of Marion Gordon; William Gordon, 6th Viscount Kenmure, Lord Lochinvar; Hon. Jean Gordon; Elizabeth Gordon and Agnes Gordon

Managed by: Judith "Judi" Elaine (McKee) Burns
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About James Gordon, of the Welsh Fusiliers

History of Galloway - Edinburgh; History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway, FHL 941.49 H2m 1994, v. 4, p 62 states

James [Gordon] who married Grizel, heiress of William Gordon of Grange of Bladenoch, parish of Penninghame, and had a daughter, who married Alexander M'Ghie, younger of Balmaghie. Issue extinct."

V. ALEXANDER, fifth Viscount of Kenmure ....

He married, thirdly (contract 19 April 1672 ), Grizel Stewart, only daughter of James, Earl of Galloway, who
had a liferent of the manor-place of Greenlaw and lands adjoining, and by whom he had issue :

  • 6. Mr. John, of Greenlaw, who married Nicolas, daughter of Robert Stewart of Ravenstone or Castle Stewart, second son of James, Earl of Galloway. He died intestate in January 1729, and Nicolas Stewart, as his relict executrix-dative, and Grissell Gordon, his only daughter, executrix-dative qua nearest of kin, both decerned to him after edict dated 9 May 1729, were confirmed as such executors on 1 December in the same year.
  • 7. James, of the Welsh Fusiliers, in 1711 serving in Flanders,1 and said to have died at Boreland of Balmaghie in 1752.2 He married Grizel, eldest or only daughter of William Gordon of Grange, and had issue female....

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. V, page 123-126

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James Gordon, of the Welsh Fusiliers's Timeline

1752
1752
Boreland of Balmaghie
1769
1769
Kenmore, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, UK
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