GORDON, Alexander, Lieutenant Colonel 1
- Born: 6 November 1781 2
- Baptised: 6 November 1781, Fordyce parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): ROBINSON, Elizabeth on 30 July 1805 in Edinburgh, Scotland 1
General Notes:
'192- Alexander. 1798, Aug. 29, Ens., 15th Ft. 1799, Jun. 6, Lt, 85th Ft. 1801, May 28, Capt. 1802, h.p. 1803, May 25, 69th Ft. 1804, Apr. 21, 95th Ft. 1808, ret. (A.L., 1799-1808; W.O., A.L., P.R.O., 1808, MS. note, Henry Stocks Smith's List of Officers, 85th, pp. 28-9, 95th, pp. 24-5). 1811, May 25, Lt. Col., Aberdeen Mil. (L.G., 640), previously Capt. 1817, Adj. (List of Mil. Yeo., Cav. & Vols., 1825, p. 81, P.R.O.).
Eldest son of James, of Rosieburn, and Jane Mercer, Edinburgh; b. 1781, m. 1805, Jul. 30, at Edinburgh, Elizabeth (d. 1849, Jul. 28, in Canada) 2nd dau. of George Robinson, W.S., of Clermiston (S.M., vol. 67, p. 564), and had three sons and two daughters (one of them the mother of Lt. Col. William Gordon Alexander, 1517), given in full detail in Bulloch's account of the Cairnfield and Rosieburn Gordons (Banffshire Field Club, 1910, pp. 46-9). 1823, Sep. 2, Gordon witnessed at Aberdeen the marriage of his sister Mary Ann to Major Gen. William Alexander Gordon,1474 1827, emigrated to Canada. 1841, farming at Mount Dorchester, Stamford; Mar. 16, applied to Sir Peregrine Maitland for an appt. as Barrack Master:
My sons and daughters are all married and gone from me. Mrs. Gordon and I are left alone; my farming days are nearly at an end, and as I have none of my family now to assist me, I am heartily tired of such hard work 1841, Dec. 23 (2nd application) . . . being a Banffshire man, I had the honour to class amongst my staunchest friends, the much-lamented late Duke of Gordon, and, were it possible, I would prefer employment in Scotland. The Barrack Master in Aberdeen is an old man, and an intimate acquaintance of mine, and were that situation to become vacant, I would prefer it to any in Britain, as all my relatives are within a short distance.
Placed on List of Candidates (Barrack Master's Appts., P.R.O.).
Brother of George Maxwell, 592, James Innes, 806, and William, 1449; distantly related to Alexander Hermann Adam, 229, and John, 982.'
from Gordons Under Arms 1
Alexander married Elizabeth ROBINSON on 30 July 1805 in Edinburgh, Scotland.1 (Elizabeth ROBINSON was born about 1785 and died on 28 July 1849 in Canada 1.)
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