GORDON, Bessie ¹

  General Notes:

On July 15, 1810, the Rev. John Gordon, Cabrach, sent a copy of the inscription on a flat tombstone in memory of a Peter Gordon and his wife Bessie to Hugh Gordon of Manar, the grandson of Peter; but it was even then partly illegible. The
minister declared that Hugh Gordon's father, James in Old Merdrum, was buried beneath the stone, " though it does not bear his name ". Ronald tried his hand at deciphering the stone thirty-five years later, covering it with turf to get a clear reading.
He made a certified copy of it on April 3, 1845 (now in the possession of Mr. Hugh Gordon) as follows :

Here lyes Bessie Gordon, spous to Peter
Gordon, who dep1'. this life the 18
of Decr
., 1728, and of age 50 years.
Also here lyes Patrik Gordon in
Haddoch who dep. this life
38 and of his age 6L years.

Ronald says that the stone was a freestone slab 5 feet 41/2 inches by 2 feet, " lying flat on the ground immediately south of the tombstones on John Gordon, sometime in Drumfergue, and his son, Lieut.-Col. John Gordon, late of the 92nd Regiment,
which are placed the one over the other."

from House of Gordon ³

Bessie married Peter GORDON in Haddoch (Cabrach), son of Alexander GORDON 5th Laird of Birkenburn, & Commissioner of Supply and Helen BISSET. (Peter GORDON in Haddoch (Cabrach) was born about 1674 and died about 1738 ².)