Malcolm Leslie, First Laird of Cults

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“RECORDS OF THE FAMILY OF LESLIE OF CULTS.

“The family of Leslie of cults was descended from the family of Leslie, Barons of Balquhain.

“I. Malcolm Leslie, first Laird of Cults, was the illegitimate son of Sir Andrew Leslie, third Baron of Balquhain, by the Fair Maid of Strathdon. Sir Andrew Leslie had a feud with the Forbeses, and made an incursion with a large body of retaineds up to Strathdon, and devastated the lands, and carried off the daughter and heiress of the Baron of Cray, chief of the Clan Allan, and who was called the Fair Maid of Strathdon: others say the that the lady whom Sir Andrew Leslie carried off was a daughter of Sir James Stewart of Inveravon, also called the Fair Maid of Strathdon. It seems certain that, by one of other of these ladies, Sir Andrew Leslie has a natural son, Malcolm Leslie, to whom he gave the lands of Cults. Malcolm Leslie of Cults is a witness to a charter of half of the lands of Westhall, granted by Alexander Ramsay of Westhall to his brother, Edward Ramsay, 26th May 1453. Malcolm Leslie of Cults had two sons –

“ I. Andrew, parson of Slisk. He had a daughter, Mary, married to John Gordon of Essie, by whom she had Duncan Gordon of Knower, Alexander Gordon of Knockespock, William Gordon, Bridge of Gight, and several other sons, from whom are descended the Gordons of Cairnborrow, of Buckie, of Crimond, and of Crawley. “ II. Alexander of Auching."