GORDON, Francis of Milne, Advocate, Jacobite 1745 ¹

   Another name for Francis was GORDON, Francis of Kincardine Mill.³

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Francis married Barbara ROSE 'of Glencat' in December 1736 in Kincardine O'Neil parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Barbara ROSE 'of Glencat' was born about 1715 and died before 17 October 1746.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
FRANCIS
BARBARA ROSS/
00/12/1736
209/ 10 413
Kincardine O'Neil"

from Index of Marriages




"Gordon, Francis. 27th July, 1745.

Son of George Gordon, heritor of Mill of Kincardine, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire, and Agnes Gordon, his wife. App. to Richard Gordon (1731). Procurator Fiscal of Aberdeenshire, appointed by Captain Alexander Grant of Grantsfield, Sheriff of the county, and sworn into office, 21st May, 1744. Fiars Juror, 1742-44. Served heir in special to his grandfather, John Gordon, in the mill and lands of Kincardine (now known as Dess), 15th October, 1744. Went out with Lord Lewis Gordon to join Prince Charlie; 'acted as General Quarter Master to the Rebels,' and, after Culloden, escaped to France, where entered the French Military Service, in which he was shortly afterwards killed. Married Barbara Rose (died before 19th October, 1746), with issue : 1. Hugh. 1. Helen. 2. Ann, married Lieut. Thomas Stewart of the 56th Regt, afterwards at Pittyvaich, Mortlach."

from History of the Society of Advocates




"2081- Francis. 1745, Quartermaster (Rosebery's List); concerned in the pillage of Lord Findlater's house S.P. Dom. Geo. IL, P.R.O., bundle 92, p. 104). 1746, May 7, lurking in the Highlands (Rosebery's List, 10, 298, 366). 1747, excepted from the Act of pardon (20 Geo. II c. 52). 1748, Oct. II, true bill found against him in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh [S.P. Scotland, Letters and Papers, 2nd series, bundle 39, No. 70).

Son of George, of Mill of Kincardine, 2089, to whom he was served heir, 1730, Oct. 31; served heir to his grandfather, John, of Glencat [d. 1706), 1744, Oct. 31; m. Barbara Rose, and had Hugh, 664, Helen, and Ann, who m. Lt. Thomas Stuart, in Keithmore, and was served heir to her brother, 1766, and her father, 1770; d. 1747, Oct. Services of Heirs), will, subscribed in London, 1746, Oct. 19 (Rosebery's List, 366), and confirmed, 1748, Sep. 3 Abd. Com.); 1748, Oct. 11, bill found against him in the Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, after his death S.P. Scotland, Letters and Papers, 2nd series, bundle 39). Apparently brother (see Note below) of the notorious John Gordon, of Glencat, who wrote two pamphlets against the Church of Rome, 1733, and who was pilloried by his mistress, Elizabeth Harding, in an extraordinary pamphlet of 104 pp., printed for the author, The Masterpiece of Imposture, 1734."

from Gordons Under Arms

Note:

John Gordon of Glencat was probably in his late twenties when he published his Memoirs in 1733. He claimed he had been 'kept prisoner' in Scots College, Paris, and 'escaped' on the day he was to be ordained to the priesthood. If true, this makes it unlikely he was the brother of Francis Gordon, for he would have been too young in that year to have been ordained. It is more likely he was a younger brother of the father of Francis Gordon, and therefore the uncle of Francis. ^{1 2 4 5}