GORDON, Alexander ¹

  General Notes:

'John (Gordon of Oxhill) died thirteen years after his father's renunciation and left three sons Alexander, William and a third who went abroad...

Alexander's house at Artloch was burned down with most of his family papers. He set out for Edinburgh with those that remained to "recover his rights of his lands from the Duke of Gordon but was fatally assaulted at Whitehouse by one John Barron ".

He left a young family, including John, who was a priest at Presholm and was "out" with Lord Lewis Gordon;William, a priest; Peter, whose daughter married Grant of Blairfindy; Jean, who married Alexander Molison; and Betty, who married John Davison, Mains of Braco, Grange. The last mentioned had a daughter Margaret (died 1820, aged 82) who married John Gordon of Tullochallum (died 1824, aged 72).' ¹

  Research Notes:

CAUTION

This latter part of the family of Gordon of Oxhill has been constructed according to the details outlined by Bulloch contained in "a letter written in May, 1826, by Anne Grant, Aberdeen, to her brother Joseph Grant, and preserved (in the form of a copy made in Glenlivet on February 12, 1848) by Mrs. Donald Gordon of the Tullochallum family, now residing at 50 Crescent Lane, Clapham Park, London, S.W."

Much of the information fits well with other pieces of information known about the respective families, but research is continuing in order to verify where possible through corroborating sources the basic facts.
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Alexander married.