GORDON, Janet ^{1 2}

   User ID: B442.

  General Notes:

"GORDON
JANET
JOHN GORDON/JEAN FORBES
F
27/10/1718
168/A 70 284
Aberdeen"

from Births and Baptisms



Old Parish Registers
St Nicholas parish Aberdeen
Baptisms

"Aberdeen 1718
Gordon
October 27 1718 Mr John Gordon late Minister at Old Deer and Jean Forbes his spouse had a daughter called Janet baptized by Mr Osborn, witnesses John Gordon late Provost, Robert Stewart late Provost and John Walker Goldsmith in Aberdeen"

Note: "John Walker, goldsmith" is named in the "List of Deacon Conveners" of Aberdeen in 1723 and 1724. ^{2 3 4}

Janet married Reverend Mr James WALKER Minister of Peterhead parish on 25 January 1750.¹ (Reverend Mr James WALKER Minister of Peterhead parish was baptised on 13 May 1705 in Peterhead parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ² and died on 1 January 1763.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Peterhead in 1739)

"James Walker, son of James W., merchant, Peterhead; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1723); licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 1st April 1735; called 4th Jan., and pres. by George II. 17th Oct. 1738; ord. 9th March 1739; died 1st Jan. 1763. A fire in 1740 completely destroyed his manse. He marr. (1) 25th Jan. 1750, Janet (died May 1756), only daugh. of John Gordon, min. of Old Deer : (2) 17th Nov. 1757, Elizabeth Innes, who marr. (2) 28th May 1772, Thomas Gordon, professor of Greek, King's College, [Tombst.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae ¹