GORDON, George in Balnacraig (Glass) ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

" (3) George (Gordon), in Auchmair and Balnacraig, whose male issue is extinct "

from The Gordons in Haddoch ³

  Research Notes:

QUERY

The original query that brought forth two different replies in Scottish Notes and Queries in February 1903 was this:
'254. George Gordon in Balnnacraig, Glass. This George is claimed to have been the son of Peter Gordon in Haddoch (Cabrach), who in turn is said to have been the youngest son of William Gordon, VI. of Birkenburn. The late Mr. Ronald, schoolmaster, Cabrach, who had worked up the pedigree, says (in a letter of 1884) that George had "a son who died in Jamaica, where he was a surgeon some years ago, and four daughters, one of whom was married to Harry Forbes in Nether Wheedlemont, whose grandson still occupies that farm. Another was married to _________Gauld in Bowmakelloch, Botriphnie; a third married a man of the name of Slorach in Glass and had a son, a blind man, a pensioner, having lost his
sight in Egypt. He had two sons and also two daughters married to James Archibald, a mason near Clova, and to George Gordon in EIrick, and the fourth daughter the wife of the late James Wilson, farmer in Bankhead, Clatt." What does this somewhat confused note mean? Any other information will be welcome. B.'

from Scottish Notes and Queries

Note:
1] 5 July 1777 In parish of Glass Aberdeenshire Colin Slorach in Wastfolds and his wife May Gordon had a daughter Elizabeth baptised, witnesses Alexander George and John Branders in Cairnmore.
They had other children baptised in the parish, and in these records May is also named as Marjory Gordon:
Patrick 23 December 1769
John 1 March 1772
Colin 23 June 1775
Thomas 8 October 1779
Isobel 26 July 1782
John 31 March 1786 ²

George married Isabel McINNES of Midthird.¹ (Isabel McINNES of Midthird was baptised on 7 June 1730 in Botriphnie parish, Banffshire, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

There are differing accounts about George Gordon and his family:

"254. George Gordon in Balnacraig, Glass (2nd S., IV., 125). - From a pedigree of the Birkenburn Gordons in my possession, it would appear that George Gordon in Balnacraig, Glass, was (see Note below) a nephew of William, VI. of Birkenburn, and grandson of Alexander V. His father was Peter in Haddoch, Cabrach, and who married Bessie Gordon, who died in 1728. George Gordon in Balnacraig, it is believed, married a Mclnnes of Midthird, Botriphnie, and had: one son - Theodore, a graduate in medicine of Aberdeen (18th October, 1796), who afterwards became Military Inspector of Hospitals in Jamaica, and died there unmarried-and three daughters, of whom one was married to Harry Forbes, another to Gauld in Bowmakelloch, and the third, Isobel, to James Wilson in Bankhead, Clatt. I never heard of a fourth daughter. Theodore left considerable property, which was inherited by the representatives of the sisters. George Gordon had a brother who was out in the '45, who suffered rather severely in consequence. Harry J. Wilson."

from Scottish Notes and Queries


An alternative account followed this pargraph:

"George Gordon in Balnacraig. Glass, married ______ Mclnnes, Botriphnie, and had one son and four daughters. The son, James, was a doctor in Jamaica, where he made some money. He returned to Scotland, and died there, leaving his money between the two sisters whose marriages had pleased him. These sisters were Isobel who married James Wilson in Bankhead, Clatt, and ______ who married ________ Gauld in Bowmakelloch, Botriphnie. The other two sisters are said to have married Harry Forbes in Nether Wheedlemont and Peterkin... James Wilson and Isobel Gordon were my husband's great-grandparents. They had twelve children.

Denham House, A. K. W Goldhawk Road, W."

from Scottish Notes and Queries

Note:

Peter Gordon, George Gordon's father, is claimed by some descendants as the youngest son of Alexander Gordon, V. of Birkenburn (died 1709), but as far as is known the evidence for this is not fully documented. ¹