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GORDON, John Wine Merchant in Gibraltar
(About 1775-)
REID, Jean
(About 1782-)
GORDON, Robert Solicitor and Procurator Fiscal
(About 1811-After 1861)
GEORGE, Margaret
(About 1815-Before 1861)
GORDON, Louisa
(1839-1904)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, George in Tullochallum

GORDON, Louisa 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 1 August 1839, Keith parish, Banffshire, Scotland 4
  • Baptised: 1 August 1839, St Thomas' RC parish, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland 3
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, George in Tullochallum on 25 June 1861 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland 1
  • Died: 31 May 1904, St Andrew's district, Edinburgh, Scotland 2

   User ID: N70.

  General Notes:

"GORDON
LOUISA
WILLIAM R./GORDON MARGARET GEORGE
F
01/08/1839
159 50 / 287
Keith"

from Births and Baptisms


"GORDON
LOUISA
WILLIAM R GORDON / MARGARET GEORGE
Female
24/7/1839
1/8/1839
Keith, St Thomas' "

from Index of Roman Catholic Births and Baptisms




"GORDON
LOUISA
64
GEORGE (mother's surname)
F
1904
685 / 2 / 296
St Andrew (Edinburgh)"

from Index of Deaths 3 4 5


Louisa married George GORDON in Tullochallum, son of Alexander GORDON in Tullochallum and Marjory COWIE, on 25 June 1861 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland.1 (George GORDON in Tullochallum was baptised on 23 April 1832 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland 4 and died in 1906 in St Giles district, Edinburgh, Scotland 5.)


  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
GEORGE
GORDON
LOUISA
1861
147 / 1 / 23
Banff Burgh"

from Index of Marriages


The couple were married, after banns, according to the rites and forms of the Roman Catholic Church by James Kyle. H. Reid and James Gordon were witnesses.

George Gordon was a land surveyor and farmer. He was a bachelor of 29 years of age, resident at Tullochallum in the parish of Mortlach. His mother was deceased.

Louisa Gordon was a 21 year old spinster resident in Banff, Banffshire. Her mother was deceased.

The marriage was registered on 27 June 1861 at Banff, Robert Leask signing as registrar.




"(v.) Louisa Gordon (by the first marriage) died May 31, 1904. She married George Gordon (1832-1908 (see Note below)), land surveyor, Tullochallum, Mortlach, afterwards of Edinburgh. He belonged to the Gordons in Achnarrow, Inveravon, who had been connected with that farm for generations. About the end of the seventeenth century they moved to the farm of Upper Clochan in the Enzie. Mr Gordon's grandfather, John, succeeded a maternal uncle in the farm of Tullochallum in Mortlach in 1771, where he also had the hill grazings of Culraggie, which extended to the march with Inchnacape at the water-shed between Glenlivet and Tomintoul. Mr Gordon had : -

a. Alexander William Gordon, surveyor, Inverness. He is married to Margaret, daughter of Andrew Macdonald, Sheriff- Clerk, Inverness, and has a son George.

b. Henry Gordon, C.E., South Africa. He is married, and has a son George.

c. Daughter : unmarried."

from The Gordons and Smiths at Minmore

Note:

George Gordon died in 1906, not 1908.
1 2 6

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, Banff Banffshire Marriages 1861.

2 e-books, The Gordons and Smiths at Minmore, Auchorachan, and Upper Drumin in Glenlivet by J. M. Bulloch (1910).

3 GRO Scotland, Index of Roman Catholic Births and Baptisms.

4 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

5 GRO Scotland, Index of Deaths.

6 GRO Scotland, Index of Marriages.

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