GORDON, Lewis in Aikenhead ¹

   Another name for Lewis was GORDON, Lodovick.²

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  General Notes:

No baptisms record has been found in the Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland for Lewis Gordon.




"Lewis Gordon in Aikenhead, whose scandalous divorce case was quoted in the 'Banffshire Herald' on July 30, 1910."

'Another Salterhill Gordon took a trip to Ireland, in the person of the notorious Lewis Gordon of Aikehhead, in the parish of Drainie, who, when he got into trouble at home, crossed the Channel to Ireland in 1682, in the beginning of the eighteenth century. He found a little colony of Gordons there, mentioning Lewis Gordon, "provis"; Charles Gordon, ensign, "who is a sister's son of General McKeys, who went to Portegeall"; John Gordon, a gentleman in "Heasten's" (Houston's) Regiment (in the Scots Brigade in Holland?); John Gordon, shoemaker in Dublin; Alexander Gordon, stationer in Plunket Street; Alexander Gordon, tailor in Skinner Row; Archibald Gordon at the sign of the "Coak and Botle in Bryd Street"; Robert Gordon, a tailor in Patrick's Close ; Thomas Gordon "doctor and dextrius in cutting of the ston"; Alexander Gordon, a brother to Arthur Gordon. "a man that rides in Cornel Deyeall [Dalzill's] troup of Dragouns, a corporall"; Alexander Gordon, an old man, who ran errands for a club that Lewis Gordon of Aikenhead started in Dublin."

from The Gordons of Salterhill ¹

Lewis married.