GORDON, John of the 92nd Highlanders, Lieutenant Colonel ^{2 3 4 5}

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
JOHN
JOHN GORDON/ELIZABETH GORDON FR93 (FR93)
M
03/11/1751
198 10 / 320
Gartly"

from Births and Baptisms


Old Parish Registers
Gartly parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms

"Nov^r 3^d 1751

John Gordon in Drumfergue had a man child baptized called John begotten wt his lawll spouse Elizabeth Gorden witts John Chalmers in the Miln of Huntly Robert Gordon in Brae of Essie George Gordon yr Alexr Gordon yr Adam Leith Colithie James Gordon in Merdrum James Gordon in Maines of Craig" ^{5 6}

John married Elizabeth SOUTER on 16 September 1784 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Elizabeth SOUTER was born about 1760 and died on 23 April 1842 in Aberdeen, Scotland ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
JOHN
ELISABETH SUTTOR/FR330 (FR330)
16/09/1784
198 20 / 151
Gartly"

from Index of Marriages




"909- John. 1778, Sep. 26, Ens., N. Fencibles (L.G.), enlisted six men for the reg. (Gordon Castle Papers). 1779, Apr. 10, Lt. (A.L., 1779-82). 1782, Feb. 13, Ens., Capt. John Mackenzie's Independent Coy.; Jun. 17, Lt. (W.O. Notifications, P.R.O.). 1783, h.p., Waller's Ft. (A.L., 1785-96). 1794, Sep. 12, Lt., 81st Ft., but same day appt. Capt. Lt., 100th Ft. (W.O. Notifications, P.R.O.). 1797, Jun. 20, Capt. (L.G.). 1798, recruited upwards of 40 men in the neighbourhood of Coynachie (Greenhill Gardyne's Life of a Reg., i. 46). 1799, Jan. 19, Maj. 1801, served with Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt. 1805, Jan.1, ret, Bt. Lt. Col. (A.L., 1779-1827).

Younger son of John, in Auchmair, who was the son of Peter, in Haddoch, a supposed cadet of Birkenburn ; bap. 1751, Nov. 3; farmed Coynachie, Gartly ; m. 1784, Sep. 16, Elizabeth Souter, and had John, 962. and William, 1437; d. 1827, Mar. 27, at Coynachie, aged 75 (House of Gordon, n. (322)). Uncle of John, 925"

from Gordons Under Arms




"4. Extract from "Epitaphs and Inscriptions" by John A. Henderson (printed in 1907):

...... According to the late Mr Jervise and Captain Wimberley, he ('John Gordon, sometime farmer in Drwmferg, who dy'd July 21, 1759, aged 51 years') was the father of Lieut. Colonel John Gordon, of the 92nd Highlanders, who died at Coynachie 27th March, 1827, aged 75, and whose widow - Elisabeth Soutar - died at Aberdeen 23rd April, 1842, aged 82. Their eldest son William Gordon, M.D., one of the Judges of the Supreme Court and member of H.M. Council of the island of Jamaica - who married twice and left a family - died at Elgin 26th January, 1838, aged 52. John, the other son, was a General in the Royal Engineers. He died at Culdrain in 1861, and was buried at Drumblade. He was twice married - first, to a daughter of Rev. Dr. Skene Ogilvy, Minister of Old Machar; and, secondly, to Jane, daughter of Andrew Macpherson, Gibston, Huntly. Of their family, William was a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, and died unmarried in 1875; while Cosmo George was Lietenant-Colonel in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and was afterwards in Culdrain."

from Manar Archives< ^{1 2 4}