Sophia Hay

She was a daughter of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth Douglas.[1]

Sophia Hay (d. 1642) was a Scottish noblewoman.

She married John Gordon, Viscount of Melgum. He died in the fire at Frendraught Castle in 1630.[2] They had a daughter, Henrietta Gordon.

Sophia Hay features in Gilbert Blackhall's, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes. Blackhall, a Catholic priest, met her in 1637, and joined her household at Aboyne Castle.[3]

References
  1. Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
  2. Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
  3. John Stuart, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844).
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