GORDON, Peter, Captain ¹

   Another name for Peter was GORDON, Patrick.²

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
PATRICK
JAMES GORDON/MARGARET CRUIKSHANK FR239 (FR239)
M
28/05/1743
143/ 20 99
Speymouth"

from Births and Baptisms




"1152. Peter. Capt, H.E.I.C.S., Wellesley, 1801, Oct. 191804, Feb. 30 (I.O. Rec.). Served the Govt. for a time as Commodore of the expedition to Egypt; afterwards fell in with a French frigate, La Franchise, off the coast of Brazil and beat her off, the Wellesley then being laden with Govt. stores for the Cape; he got a piece of plate for this service (Petition of his son, Peter, to the House of Lords, 1841).

Son of James (1696-1765), merchant, Garmouth, who was the son of Robert, of Lunan, and the brother of Alexander, W.S. (1687-1775), of Cairnfield; m. Ann, dau. of - - Phillips, Sheriff of St. Johns, Newfoundland, and had two sons and four daus., including Peter (1790-1857), captain in the mercantile marine, who had a remarkable career as an explorer, missionary, writer, and publicist (Bulloch's Gay Gordons, p. 220, and his Gordons of Cairnfield and Rosieburn')."

from Gordons Under Arms ^{2 3}

  Research Notes:

PATRICK AND PETER

These two names were used interchangeably in many areas of Ireland and Scotland.