GORDON, Anne ^{1 2}

   Other names for Anne were GORDON, Ann, Mrs,⁵ GORDON, Ann ² and STEWART, Ann of Pittyvaich, Mrs.³

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
ANNE
FRANCIS GORDON/BARBARA ROSS
F
27/10/1741
209 10 / 148
KINCARDINE O'NEIL"

from Births and Baptisms




"VII Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Ann Stewart, late of Pittyvaich, whose remains are deposited in this churchyard.
She died 5th Feb., 1823, aged 81 years.

The title 'of' is vainglorious. The Stewarts were proprietors of Nothing, being merely tenants of Pittyvaich of which the Earl of Fife is the proprietor. Even to the grave, some people carry empty vanity and poor pride, the cause of the fall."

from History of Moray ^{2 3}

Anne married Lieutenant Thomas STEWART of Keithmore, 7th of Drumin, son of Gordon STEWART 6th of Drumin and Margaret DUNBAR, on 2 December 1763 in Inveravon parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Lieutenant Thomas STEWART of Keithmore, 7th of Drumin was baptised on 29 June 1740 in Croy and Dalcross parish, Invernesshire, Scotland,² died on 5 February 1815 and was buried in Inveravon Churchyard, Banffshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
AN
... STEWART/FR286 (FR286)
26/11/1763
217 20 / 141
LOGIE COLDSTONE"

"GORDON
ANNE
THOMAS STEWART/
02/12/1763
157 10 / 375
INVERAVON"

from Index of Marriages




"Thomas (Stewart) married Anne Gordon, the only (see Note below) daughter of Francis Gordon of Kincardine Mill, who acted as General Quarter Master to Prince Charles in 1745. Kincardine Mill, which is now called Dess, was a small property in the parish of Kincardine O'Neil, but it was of considerable value, because the surrounding country had to pay multures to the owner. Francis, who was excepted from the royal pardon of 1747, died in October, 1747, and was succeeded by his son Hugh, a midshipman in the Navy, who died, and to whom his sister Anne was served heir general on July 4, 1766, while she was served heir special to her father, Francis, August 3, 1770, by which time she was the wife of 'Lieutenant Thomas Stewart in Keithmore,' a farm afterwards occupied by William Marshall, the famous composer of Strathspeys.

Thomas, says his son, Ludovick, 'was not a good boy,' and his wife Anne left him. After the separation, Thomas sold Kincardine Mill to one of the Aberdeen legal family of Davidson, who still own it. It is said that when. Anne heard that the estate had been sold, she remarked that a 'damned scoundrel had sold it.' Thomas Stewart and his wife ultimately got a lease of Pittyvaich from Lord Fife. His wife, Anne Gordon, died February 5, 1823, aged 81, and is buried in Mortlach Churchyard, where a stone records her virtues in the terms of a funeral sermon preached on her by the Rev. Morris Forsyth, the minister of the parish. She is described as 'old in years and in good works. She required only to be known in order to be highly esteemed. Piety without moroseness, courtesy and cheerfulness of temper and a most friendly and obliging disposition; her memory will long be cherished by a numerous class of her fellow parishioners, whose families have been aided by her bounty, and whose pains have been lessened by her sympathy and compassion.' "

from Stewarts of Drumin and Pittyvaich

Note:

Anne had a sister Helen, though she may have died at an early age.< ^{1 4}