GORDON, Alexander ¹

   Cause of his death was assault by John Barron.¹

   User ID: N47.

  General Notes:

"John (Gordon) 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)."

from Leichestoun ¹

Alexander married.