GORDON, Thomas in Achnastank (Auchnashank) 1
- Born: About 1655
- Marriage (1): CUMMING, Margaret 1
Another name for Thomas was GORDON, Thomas in Achlochran.1
User ID: X966.
Research Notes:
ACHNASTANK
"Auchnashank [=Achnastank]
NJ278338
1841 Census ED 3"
from Banffshire Place Names 2
Thomas married Margaret CUMMING, daughter of Robert CUMMING of Recletich and Unknown.1 (Margaret CUMMING was born about 1680.)
Marriage Notes:
"Thomas Gordon. The Birnie MS. (p. 263) says 'he lived at Achlochran; but he seems to be identical with Thomas Gordon, who dwelt at Achnastank (p. 276). I treat him separately unler Achnastank." (page 6)
"By a strange fatality, the Birnie MS.- also blunders in the matter of Achnastank. On page 263 it says that Harry Gordon of Achlochran had a second son, Thomas Gordon, who 'lived at Achlochran,' and that he married late in life Cummin, sister of George Cummin of Recletich, leaving three sons, James, Lewis, and Thomas. On page 27 the MS. begins discussing James Gordon, 'the eldest son of Thomas Gordon, who dwelt at Achnastank', and gives James two brothers, Lewis and Thomas. It seems clear that the statement on page 263 is a slip, and that Thomas Gordon, the son of Harry of Achlochran, really lived at Achnastank, which is quite close to Achlochran. Thomas Gordon in Achnastank had at any rate three sons and a daughter:
1. James Gordon, who lived at the Laggan of Auchindoun.
2. Lewis Gordon, who dwelt at Tomnagayloch .... Achnastank ....
3. Thomas Gordon, lived for a time at Achnastank ...." (pages 32....38)
from Gordons of Laggan and Achlochrach 1
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