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GORDON, Peter in Haddoch (Cabrach)
(About 1674-About 1738)
GORDON, Bessie
(About 1678-1728)
GORDON, John in Drumfergue, Jacobite 1745?, ancestor of Gordons of Coynachie and Culdrain
(About 1708-1759)
GORDON, Elizabeth
(About 1718-)
GORDON, Jean
(1743-1796)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GORDON, Henry, Captain
2. DUNCAN, William in Culdrain

GORDON, Jean 1 2

  • Baptised: 31 December 1743, Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2
  • Marriage (1): GORDON, Henry, Captain 1
  • Marriage (2): DUNCAN, William in Culdrain after 22 November 1779 1
  • Died: 5 April 1796 1

   Another name for Jean was GORDON, Jane.1

   User ID: J271.

  General Notes:

"GORDON
JEAN
JOHN GORDON/ELIZABETH GORDON FR76 (FR76)
F
31/12/1743
198 10 / 259
Gartly"

from Births and Baptisms 2


Jean married Captain Henry GORDON, son of Charles GORDON 6th of Terpersie, Jacobite 1745 and Margaret GORDON.1 (Captain Henry GORDON was born about 1732 and died on 22 November 1779.)


  Marriage Notes:

"616. Harry. 1757, Feb. 2, 2nd Lt., 39th Ft. 1761, Nov. 10, 1st Lt. 1764, h.p. 1778, Mar. 14, Lt. and Capt., 41st Marines (MS. A.L., 1752, pt. 2, p. 180, P.R.O. ; A.L., 1758-79; S.M., vol. 19, p. 167, vol. 32, p.688).

His widow Jane, received pension of £26 from 1779, Nov. 23 1790-1; she m. (2) William Duncan, in Culdrain, and d. 1796, Apr. 5; will proved Jul. 26 (W.O. Wid. Pensions, P.R.O. ; Moray Test.)."

from Gordons Under Arms

Note:

Harry/Henry Gordon was clearly not a Jacobite like his brother and father. Although this numbered entry does not mention Terpersie it is the numbered entry in the Gordons Under Arms to which the entry for Charles Gordon 6th of Terpersie, Henry's father, points.
1

Jean next married William DUNCAN in Culdrain after 22 November 1779.1 (William DUNCAN in Culdrain was born about 1740.)


  Marriage Notes:

"His (Harry Gordon's) widow Jane, received pension of £26 from 1779, Nov. 23 1790-1; she m. (2) William Duncan, in Culdrain, and d. 1796, Apr. 5; will proved Jul. 26 (W.O. Wid. Pensions, P.R.O. ; Moray Test.)."

from Gordons Under Arms 1

Sources


1 e-books, The House of Gordon vol. 3 Gordons Under Arms by C.O.Skelton and J.M.Bulloch (1912).

2 GRO Scotland, OPR Index of Births and Baptisms.

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