GORDON, Robert in Gollachy

   Another name for Robert was GORDON, Robert of Gollachie.

  Research Notes:

GOLLACHY 'Gollachie'

Gollachy makes up part of the modern Port Gordon, but does not really exist in its own right any more. Until the end of the eighteenth century all of the area to the west of Nether Buckie was known as 'Gollachie'. The name owed its origins to the burn which flows down from Arradoul to the sea.

"Initially, there appears to have been a small community of fishermen based at Gollachie. The exact location of this community remains obscure, but the fragmented evidence which survives would seem to indicate that it was located around the middle of what is now Gordon Street. The Reverend George Donaldson, minister of Rathven, writing in the First Statistical Account, noted that 'during the year 1723, a fishing-boat and crew, belonging to the [second] Duke of Gordon, removed from Gollachie to Buckie, as being a safer and more commodious situation.' Having quit Gollachy, the crew set themselves up at Nether Buckie where there was only one boat, owned by Mr Dunbar, the Laird. Dunbar only held his lands in feu from the Duke himself and, in any case, was considerably in arrears to the Duke. Consequently, while Dunbar had conveniently chosen to reside on the Continent, the Duke had no qualms about stationing his boat on the Nether Buckie land."

from Port Gordon at http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/history/Book%20Text.htm

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Robert married.