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GORDON, Robert Danzig Merchant, Founder Robert Gordon's College
(About 1668-1731) |
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Family Links
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Spouses/Children:
1. Unknown
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GORDON, Robert Danzig Merchant, Founder Robert Gordon's College 1 2
- Born: About 1668
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Died: 1731 1
Another name for Robert was GORDON, Robert Trader in Danzig Baltic.3
General Notes:
"The Aberdonian, Robert Gordon, moved to Danzig in 1690 and remained there as a merchant for some thirty years. On his return he provided a large endowment to establish Gordon's Hospital in Aberdeen that eventually became a school and is now a university."
from Network North by Steve Murdoch 4
Robert married.
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Sources
1
Internet Site, http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy.
2
Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland, Fordyce parish Banffshire Baptisms.
3
Internet Site, http://www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/.
4
Steve Murdoch, Network North:Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746 (2006).
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