GORDON, Thomas Edinburgh Clockmaker ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"3rd November 1688. 'Brother German to Alexander Gordon of Briggs ; booked apprentice to Andrew Brown.' "

"Thomas Gordon died in the beginning of the year 1743, having been in business for a period of forty years. If the reader will turn to the notes on Robert Fairholm it will be seen that the minute quoted gives Patrick Gordon as his brother. This is probably correct, although the first minutes dealing with both these men respectively show that they were uncle and nephew. Possibly this last is a mistake of the writer of the original records, but that undoubtedly they were brothers is afforded by the fact that Patrick Gordon was served Heir to his brother Thomas Gordon, 2Oth April 1749."

from Old Scottish Clockmakers




"1317- Thomas. Capt., Edinburgh Trained Band. Younger son of Alexander, of Briggs, and Garmouth; by trade a (famous)
watchmaker (Smith's Old Scottish Clock Makers, which illustrates several of his clocks); d. 1742 (S.M., ix. 439; Bulloch's Gordons of Cairnfield, 64). Great-grandson of William, I. of Arradoul, 1375."

from Gordons Under Arms

Note:

No 1375 in Gordons Under Arms features in fact not William 1 but William 2 of Arradoul, son of James Gordon of Knockespock and Margaret Gordon of Arradoul; that William 2 of Arradoul in the paragraph describing is noted as 'Great-grandfather of Thomas, 1317'. If he is a close relative of Alexander Gordon of Briggs this would suggest he is a descendant, through William Gordon of Lunan, of William Gordon 1 of Arradoul, but his dates would make him a great-great-grandson rather than one generation earlier, and possibly this is where the confusion has arisen. ²