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Jean Gordon
(1670 c.-1745 c.)

LBT ID: JeGordo1745B/BAP:   1670
DIED:   1745
SOURCES: M. C. Rintoul, Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction (1993) 351-52
The gipsy of Kirk-Yetholm who was the model for Meg Merilees in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Scott met her granddaughter, Madge Gordon.
REFERENCES TO Jean Gordon:
Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 19 March 1826 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)
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