CATTANACH, George in Drumnahive, then in Moss of Kildrummy ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"Discharge by Margaret and Helen Gordons, daughters of the deceased Charles Gordon, late of Terpersie, attainted, with consent of George Cattanach, farmer in Moss of Kildrummy, husband to the said Helen Gordon, and the said George Cattanach for himself and spouse, of certain Claims upon the Estate of Terpersie (scroll undated)."

from Forfeited Estate Papers ³

George married Helen GORDON, daughter of Charles GORDON 6th of Terpersie, Jacobite 1745 and Margaret GORDON, on 5 July 1757 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Helen GORDON was born in 1740 ² and died in 1814 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
HELEN
GEORGE CATTANACH/FR141 (FR141)
05/07/1757
198 10 / 488
Gartly"

from Index of Marriages




"Helen (Gordon) (1740-1814) was allowed as a creditor on her father's forfeited estate. George Stuart, schoolmaster of Oathlaw, her grandson in an unfinished pedigree (communicated by Mr. Robert Stuart, 27 Burns Road, Aberdeen), says :

'My old grandmother, Helen Gordon, with her sister, Mrs. Lindsay, were boarded then with poor folk, for the Duke of Cumberland's soldiers would have killed them as rebels' brats (my mother said so to me)'. Two of Terpersie's daughters would seem to have kept a boarding school at Cromarty (information from the late Rev. Harry Stuart, Oathlaw), which received every encouragement from the Highland chiefs who had also suffered in the rebellion. Mr. Stuart's mother, Charlotte Boyd Cattanach, and aunts had the advantage of being trained at this school, coming home fraught with the spirit and tales that prevailed in it. It seems to have been really a training as well as a teaching school for the art of domestic life.

'Whatever it was,' writes Mr. Stuart, 'it gave me a mother to whose advice and early teaching I owe more for real useful living than to all the schools I have ever been at, and all the books I have ever read of a secular nature. Helen Gordon was reckoned the beauty of the district, which the romance of her father's life and her family no doubt enhanced. At all events my maternal grandfather, the recognised chief of a large branch of the Clan Chattan and the most spirited youth of those rough and romantic times, hearing of her beauty and the sufferings of her family in the wreck of the civil war, made suit and won her. It is my longest remembrance to have seen her still a beauty. A venerable clergyman after told me it did his heart good to see her walk. My own loved and gentle-spirited mother, her daughter, did her all justice as to looks. . . . She had been trained at the boarding school where the best old Jacobite blood was collected.'

Helen Gordon married George Cattanach (1733-1821) in Drumnahive and then in Mossat, Kildrummy, son of John Cattanach; tenant in Bellastraid, Logie Mar"

from Terpersie ^{1 2}