Sophia Hay

Sophia Hay, Viscountess Melgum (died 1642) was a Scottish noblewoman.

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

She married John Gordon, Viscount Melgum, who died in the fire at Frendraught in October 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] Blackhall described the fire at Frendraught according to her account, and laid the blame on James Crichton of Frendraught and his servant John Toash.[4]

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).
  4. ^ Gilbert Blackhall, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844), pp. 124-5.