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Bisset of Lessindrum. Their arms are given. As, a fesse chequy argent
and of the field between 3 boars heads proper. Crest, a stag's head couped
/>/>/-. Motto, " Bydand."
Gordon of Buthlaw and Cairness is descended from Gordon of Seggy-
den, a cadet of Lesmoir.
The Gordons of Wardhouse appear to be descended through a female
from a son of Gordon of Terpersie. — See close of narrative. In the male
line they descend from Adam Gordon, son of the 1st Earl of Huntly and
Dean of Caithness, who died 1528: he got the lands of Beldornie, which
were sold first to Baird of Ury, and by him to Mr Grant. The Gordons
Wardhouse, bear arms — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, a lion rampant argent
between 3 boars heads couped or; 2nd and 3rd, as. 3 boars heads erased
a/g., a bordure of the last.
Crest, a cross crosslet fitchee gu.
Motto, " In hoc spes una."
Gordon of Cairnfield and Arradoul appears to be descended (through
a female) at any rate from the Jock and Tarn Gordons. A John Gordon
of Cairnfield was the eldest son of an Alexander of Cairnfield by his second
wife, Jane, eldest daughter of Gordon of Sheelagreen : and the Sheelagreens
according to some are cadets of the old Gordons of Newton, and thus of
the Lesmoirs ; and according to others, one of them, the father of this Jane,
was eldest son of Gordon of Drumwhydle and Faskine ; and a Patrick
Gordon of Drumwheidle was 2nd son of William Gordon of Craig, who
died in 1607.
Cairnfields arms are as. a pheon between 3 boars heads erased or.
Crest, a boars head erased or. Motto above the crest, " Byd : " under the
arms, " Dum vigilo tutus."
APPENDIX 17/.
Connection between the Families of Gordon of Lesmoir
and Gordon of Craig.
There was a close connection between these two families for several
generations.
The 1st laird of Lesmoir was the 2nd son of George, the eldest son of
William of Tillytermont : and the 1st laird of Craig was Patrick, the 2nd
son of William of Tillytermont.
Jean, daughtert)f Sir James, 1st Bart, of Lesmoir, married John Gordon
of Craig about 1610 or 1620.
Francis Gordon of Craig, his son by Jean Gordon, married Klizabeth,
daughter of Gilbert Menzies of Pitfodels, as his first wife, and had a son
Francis ; he was a Roman Catholic (vide Gen. Pat. Gordon of Auchleuchries
Diary), succeeded in 1650, and married, 2ndly, another Jean Gordon,
daughter of Gordon of Corrachree, and had by her 2 sons, John, and Alex-
ander, a merchant in Holland. He died 1689.
Another Francis of Craig, eldest son of the last, married the Hon.
Agnes Ogilvy, daughter of 2nd Lord Banff (who succeeded his father in