SOUTER, Elizabeth 2
- Born: About 1760
- Marriage (1): GORDON, John of the 92nd Highlanders, Lieutenant Colonel on 16 September 1784 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1
- Died: 23 April 1842, Aberdeen, Scotland 3
Other names for Elizabeth were SOUTAR, Elisabeth 3 and SUTTOR, Elisabeth.4
User ID: N470.
Elizabeth married Lieutenant Colonel John GORDON of the 92nd Highlanders, son of John GORDON in Drumfergue, Jacobite 1745?, ancestor of Gordons of Coynachie and Culdrain and Elizabeth GORDON, on 16 September 1784 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.1 (Lieutenant Colonel John GORDON of the 92nd Highlanders was baptised on 3 November 1751 in Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2 4 5 and died on 27 March 1827 in Coynachie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2 3.)
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."
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