GORDON, Alexander Lord Rockville, Lord of Session ^{3 4 5 6}

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
ALEXANDER
WILLIAM EARL OF ABERDEEN GORDON SUSAN MURRAY FR343 NOB EARL (FR343)
M
27/06/1738
221/ 10 420
Methlick"

from Births and Baptisms

Note:

The GRO Index of Old Parish Registers records Susan Murray as the mother of Alexander baptised in Methlick in 1738, and William Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, as father, but in the text of the record itself only the father's name is recorded. The GRO index must be in error since William Gordon married his third wife, Anne Gordon, in 1729. Susanna Murray had died in 1725.




Grave Inscription in St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh:

"Here lies the remains of ANNE, Countess of Aberdeen, relict of William, Earl of Aberdeen, and daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, obiit 26th June a.d. 1791, aetatis suae 78, and also her son, The Honourable ALEXANDER GORDON, Lord Rockville, obiit 13 March 1792. aetatis sui 53, also his daughter, CATHERINE GORDON, wife of Robert Hepburne, Esquire, of Clarkington, who died 2nd April 1832, aged 53 years ; also ROBERT HEPBURNE, Esquire, of Clarkington, who died 5th August 1846, aged 80 years" ^{3 4}

Alexander married Anne DUFF, daughter of William DUFF of Crombie (Crommey), Sheriff-Depute of Ayr and Elizabeth DALRYMPLE, on 26 July 1769 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{1 2} (Anne DUFF was born about 1738 and died on 21 August 1811 in Brandsbury, Hampshire, England ^{1 2}.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Alexander (Gordon), born 1739, became an advocate 7 August 1759, Sheriff of Kirkcudbright 1764-84, and was appointed a Lord of Session 1 July 1784, taking the title of Lord Rockville from a residence he had bought in Haddingtonshire. He married 26 July 1769, in Edinburgh, Anne, daughter of William Duff of Crombie, and relict of William, Earl of Dumfries and Stair. She died 24 August 1811. He died 13 March 1792 aged fifty-two, leaving issue

(1) Charles Gordon of Fyvie

(2) William

(3) Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Gordon, A.D.C. to Earl of Hardwicke in Ireland, killed at Talavera 28 July 1809, unmarried.

(4) General Cosmo Gordon, who died 7 March 1867, aged 89, leaving issue a son Cosmo, who died in January 1876.

(5) Elizabeth, eldest daughter, died at Perth 5 October 1775.

(6) Anne, married, 17 June 1795, at North Berwick to John Cathcart of Genock, and died 1837.

(7) Jane, married, 14 January 1799, at Bargeny to the Honourable Hugh Lindsay, director of the East India Company, son of James, Earl of Balcarres, and had issue. Died 26 May 1862.

(8) Catherine, married, 1 October 1800, at Ayr to Robert Hepburn of Clerkington.

(9) Margaret, married, 12 July 1802, at Hendon, Middlesex, to Sir B. A. Coutts Trotter of Westville, county Lincoln, their grandson and heir being Sir Coutts Lindsay."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"Anne (Duff), who married, first, in 1762,the Earl of Dumfries and Stair, But had no issue by him; and secondly, in 1769, Alexander Gordon, advocate, brother to the Earl of Aberdeen. He was Sheriff of Kirkcudbright, and became Lord Rockville."

from Book of the Duffs




"GORDON
ALEXANDER
ANNE DUFF OR CRICHTON FR245 (FR245)
23/07/1769
685/1 490 428
Edinburgh"

from Index of Marriages




".... the Earl (Alexander Gordon) married, secondly, on 19 June 1762, Anne, daughter of William Duff of Crombie, Advocate. She survived him, and married, 26 July 1769, Alexander Gordon, a Lord of Session, styled Lord Rockville, who died 13 March 1792. She died 21 August 1811, at Brandsbury, aged seventy-three."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3) ^{1 2 5 6}