When Elizabeth Abernarthy was born in 1436, in Upper Town of Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Laurence de Abernethy, was 33 and her mother, Lady Margaret Stewart, was 36. She married John Gordon , 1st of Auchleuchries before 1449, in Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died in 1494, in Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 58, and was buried in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The placename is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
History: This was the name of a cadet branch of MacDuff earls of Fife and one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was brought to the US as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
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