GORDON, William in Tomnavoulin ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
WILLIAM
JOHN GORDON/MARGT. GRANT
M
03/08/1790
157 10 / 450
Inveravon"

"GORDON
WILLIAM
JOHN GORDON/MARGT. GRANT FR279 (FR279)
M
03/08/1790
157 10 / 321
Inveravon"

from Births and Baptisms




"William Gordon in Tomnavoulin, locally pronounced as Tamoul - 'Rich Willie Gordon of Tamoul', so-styled in Gordon's Shaw - had some very marked eccentricities of his own. 'He had no sympathy with modern ideas of advance. For half a century the whole steading was of the most primitive make-shift caste. Tamoul, as he was called from the farm, in his garb was equally unadorned, the same tattered rags having done duty for years gone by.' Yet he would leave personal estate of over nine thousand pounds (a large sum in 1875), some £8,582 of this sitting on deposit with banks. He accused the Glenlivet priest of saying that there was 'an inordinate greed' about him; the clergyman, however, writing to the bishop about Tamoul, acknowledged approvingly that although he 'in orthography and in piety is deficient, yet in knowing the value of farm produce or in transacting country business is quite an adept.' Research shows that Tamoul probably fathered five children, but never once married; or as Dr. Gordon puts it, 'He lived in celibacy, nevertheless he left the fruits of his loins.' " [....]

"William Gordon, Tamoul, was nonetheless honoured by the antiquary Andrew Jervise with this generous comment, published in 1875: 'Although past four-score, he is an able and willing dispenser of 'Highland hospitality' .' Dr. Gordon adds further on this theme: 'While most penurious, when an auld acquaintance paid him a visit at the roadside farm-house (if such it could be designated) Tamoul was kind and hospitable, setting down bread and cheese and a bottle of real Glenlivat ."

from Mergers in Messengery

Note:

'Dr Gordon' quoted above was the Reverend J. F. S. Gordon, D.D. (1821-1904), historian of Glasgow.



"GORDON
WILLIAM
84
GRANT (mother's surname)
M
1875
157 / 2 / 3
Glenlivet"

from Index of Deaths ^{2 3 4}