GORDON, Susannah 2
- Baptised: 16 July 1732, Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 3
- Marriage (1): GORDON, John of Crichie in November 1770 in Saint Paul's Episcopal parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 1 2
- Died: 3 February 1790 1
Other names for Susannah were GORDON, Anna,3 GORDON, Susan 1 4 and GORDON, Susanna.1
User ID: B862.
General Notes:
"GORDON
ANNA
CHARLES GORDON/JEAN UDNY
F
16/07/1732
168/A 70 567
Aberdeen"
from Births and Baptisms 3
Research Notes:
NO BAPTISMAL RECORD
Children of Charles Gordon appear in the baptismal records of the OPRs of the Church of Scotland, namely in Saint Nicholas parish, Aberdeen and Foveran parish Aberdeenshire. There is no baptismal record for a daughter named Susan. She is named in the History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen's list of Charles Gordon's children, and she is named in the Lesmoir article by Douglas Wimberley in House of Gordon.
Susan and her husband John Gordon appear not to have had any children, so she may have been past childbearing age when they married.
The youngest baptised daughter of Charles Gordon was named Anna. It may be that 'Susan' was not the name under which John Gordon's wife was baptised, and that one of these later daughters was 'Susan', though not baptised under the name of Susan. That baptised daughter 'Anna' is the most likely candidate, as the Lesmoir article quotes a phrase from the will of John Gordon of Crichie, referring to his:
"dearly beloved spouse, Susanna Gordon,"
and the marriage OPR index names John Gordon's wife as Susannah.
Though in the History of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen's list of Charles Gordon's children there is Susan and Anna, it is not unlikely that the child baptised as Anna was actually the daughter, Susan, who married John Gordon of Crichie in 1770, since all the other children have a baptismal record but 'Susan' does not. 1 2 3 4
Susannah married John GORDON of Crichie, son of John GORDON of Kinnellar, Merchant in Aberdeen and Henrietta FRASER, in November 1770 in Saint Paul's Episcopal parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.1 2 (John GORDON of Crichie was baptised on 9 February 1724 in Saint Paul's Episcopal parish, Aberdeen, Scotland 1 3 and died in 1781 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"GORDON
JOHN
SUSANNAH GORDON/
05/11/1770
168/A 130 539
Aberdeen"
from Index of Marriages
"The Scots Magazine in recording his (John Gordon's) marriage describes him as 'late in H.E.I.C.S.' In 1770 he took a seven years' lease of the farm of Upper Crichie, Old Deer, from Garden of Troup, and spent a lot of money in improving it (Aberdeen Journal, April 12, 1790). Crichie had been held by his family 1532-1597. He married at St. Paul's Church, Aberdeen, November 4, 1770, Susan, daughter of Charles Gordon of Buthlaw."
"He left to his 'dearly beloved spouse, Susanna Gordon,' a life rent in his property. On her death £150 was to be paid to each of his nieces, the Hon. Henrietta, Mary and Eleanora Fraser, daughters of George Lord Saltoun, and a similar sum to his other nieces, Henrietta and Eleanor, daughters of William Fraser, factor of George Lord Saltoun."
from Lesmoir 1 2
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