'Fordyce1'
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Families covered: Fordyce of Cuish, Fordyce of Gask, Fordyce in Turriff
| George Fordyce in Haughs of Ashogle in Turriff, Aberdeenshire (d 06.05.1681) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Thomson (d 09.01.1685) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Fordyce of Gask in Turriff & Cuish in New Deer (a 1722) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.03.1693) Lillias or Isobell Lindsay (dau of William Lindsay of Cuish) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | John Fordyce of Gask (b 01.03.1697, d 27.05.1762) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Gordon (d 01.1779, dau of Alexander Gordon at Mill of Aberdour, sister of Alexander of Aberdour) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Barbara Fordyce (b 26.01.1726) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (10.1749) James Mackie in Castletown, later of Gask | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Magdalen Fordyce (b 21.06.1728) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1763) Thomas Mayor of Turriff (postmaster) | |||||||||||||||
| iii.+ | other issue (d unm) - George (b 1721), John (b 1724), Alexander (b 1734), William (b 1737), Isobell (b 1720), Anne (b 1723, d young?), Jean (b 1730), Ann (b 1731), Elizabeth (b 1732), Lillias (b 1735) | ||||||||||||||
| B. | William Fordyce of Cuish (b 19.10.1702, d unm 1743) | ||||||||||||||
| C. | Jean (Jane) Fordyce, later of Cuish (b 08.03.1704, d 04.03.1778) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (13.04.1744) William Dingwall | |||||||||||||||
| D.+ | other issue - George (d 05.12.1715), Isobell (b 1698, d young), Isobell (b 1700, d young) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | George Fordyce of Broadford, Provost of Aberdeen (b 1663, d 13.05.1733) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Isobell Wallace (d 24.03.1705) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Agnes Fordyce | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1703) James Black (Dean of Guild in Aberdeen) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Barbara Fordyce (d 03.1727) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (c1705) George French in Aberdeen (litster (dyer)) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Isobell Fordyce (b 1692, d 05.09.1719) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Melville (minister of Durris) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Brown (b 1687-8, d 30.05.1760) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | George Fordyce (b 05.06.1709, d 11.09.1736) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Stewart | |||||||||||||||
| i. | George Fordyce (b 08.06.1738 (sic), d 25.06.1802) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (14.03.1764) _ Stewart (b c1727, d 09.11.1805, dau of Charles Stewart (Lord Conservator of Campseri), "Mrs. Weston") | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sophia Fordyce | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.10.1796) Sir Samuel Bentham (d 30.04.1831, Brigadier General of the Russian Service) | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Margaret Fordyce (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| E. | John Fordyce (b 10.02.1717, d 25.05.1760, MD) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (15.11.1759) Pleasant Lawdord | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Mary Fordyce (b 12.1760, d 04.1799) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.01.1778) James Birch (pastry cook, poet, alderman of London) | |||||||||||||||
| F. | Robert Fordyce (b 26.06.1726, d 25.11.1765) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (04.1756) Anne Reid (dau of Hugh Reid of Sydserff) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Anne Fordyce (b 03.02.1757) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.03.1776) David Stewart, Lord Proviost of Edinburgh (a 1781) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Elizabeth Fordyce (b 18.09.1759) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (22.06.1781) James Millar of Jamaica | |||||||||||||||
| iiii.+ | other issue - George (b 1757, d infant), Hugh (b 1763, d infant), James (b 1765, d infant), Janet (b 1761, d 1834), Margaret (b 1762, d infant) | ||||||||||||||
| G. | Barbara Fordyce (b 13.11.1727) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Hay (RN) | |||||||||||||||
| H. | Elizabeth Fordyce (b 17.06.1731, d 08.06.1777) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.1766) James Spence of Derby | |||||||||||||||
| I. | David Fordyce (bpt 01.04.1711, d 09.1751, professor & philosopher) some details from Wikipedia ("David Fordyce") | ||||||||||||||
| J. | Alexander Fordyce 'of Roehampton' (b 1723, d 08.09.1789, banker, youngest son) some details from Wikipedia ("Alexander Fordyce") | ||||||||||||||
| m. (26.06.1770) Margaret Lindsay (dau of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres, m2. Sir James Bland Burges, later Lamb, 1st Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| K.+ | other issue - Thomas (b 1712, d infant?), Thomas (b 1713, d young?), James (b 1720, cleric), Thomas (b 1723), Sir William (b 1724, d 04.12.1792, MD), Katherine (b 1708), Janet (b 1715), Elizabeth (b 1718), Isobell (b 1721) | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Bissett (minister of New Machar, later in Aberdeen) | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): MGH (NS4 vol 5 (1914), 'Pedigree of the Family of Fordyce of Gask, etc.', p10+)
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