GORDON, Gilbert in Knaven ¹

  General Notes:

'Gilbert Gordon, whom the Balbithan MS. describes as "now of Knowen"...Like his brother George, he was an anti-Covenanter.... According to the Theodore Gordon MS., Gilbert "married Bildarrow." The 1670 MS. calls it "Bildardoe." '

from The Gordons of Nethermuir ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Action brought: by John Gordon of Haddo, 11 May 1631. ¹ On May 11, 1631, John Gordon of Haddo brought an action against Gilbert Gordon in Knaven, Thomas Lumsden, proprietor of Kinellar, being cautioner. It referred to houses and buildings as well as peats of the arrestee's occupation of Barrack (Littlejohn's 'Aberdeenshire Sheriff Court,' ii., 320).'

2. Assigned goods: by his cousin Haddo, November 1643. ¹ 'Spalding tells us that in November, 1643, the Laird of Haddo, called upon to pay a fine of 20,000 for an attack on the Jaffrays, and hearing that the Estates "war to send forces to vplift the same perforce, went about legallie to defend him self, and maid ane assignatioun of his haill goodis, geir, debtis, soumes
of money and vtheris pertening till him to his cusing, Gilbert Gordoun of Knaven ("Trubles," ii., 296).'
Bulloch accepts he was referred to as 'David':
'On Tuesday, December 19, "Dauid [sic] Gordon of Knaven compeirit befoir this committee [of war] and producet" the assignation, "and maid intimation thereof to them, and tuke instruments thairvpone in tua notaris handis" (Ibid, ii., 298). Referring to the same incident under date January 17, 1644, Spalding again speaks of "Dauid Gordoun'' (Ibid, ii., 305).

3. Tack, 25 May 1696, parish of Deer. ¹ 'A Gilbert Gordon got a tack of the Croft of Bridgehouse in the parish of Deer, May 25, 1696 (Fordyce MS. belonging to the New Spalding Club).'