GORDON, Alexander in Bawhilloch, Cabrach parish ^{1 2 3 4}

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  Research Notes:

CABRACH PARISH: TWO ALEXANDER GORDONS AND TWO MARGARET GORDONS

Baptism entries in the Cabrach baptissm registers, with Alexander Gordon as father, between 1700 and 1770, number eleven. They are:


1 GORDON PATRICK ALEXR. GORDON 26/07/1739
2 GORDON PATRICK ALEXR. GORDON 26/07/1739
3 GORDON HELLEN ALLEXR. GORDON 00/03/1741
4 GORDON ALEXANDER ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 12/04/1749
5 GORDON MARGARET ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 20/05/1750
6 GORDON JOHN ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGT. GORDON 04/08/1752
7 GORDON ELIZABETH ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 29/06/1755
8 GORDON ELIZABETH ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 26/12/1755
9 GORDON JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGT. GORDON 27/11/1757
10 GORDON MARGARET ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 30/01/1760
11 GORDON PATRICK ALEXANDER GORDON/MARGARET GORDON 27/02/1762


Numbers 1 to 7 state in the text that the father is Alexander Gordon in Haddoch.
Numbers 8 to 11 state in the text that the father is Alexander Gordon in Bawhilloch,
Numbers 4 to 7 state in the text Margaret Gordon is the wife of Alexander Gordon in Haddoch.


In the marriage register for Cabrach parish there is a marriage recorded as taking place on 27 February 1855 between an Alexander Gordon and a Margaret Gordon.
This cannot be the marriage of Alexander Gordon in Haddoch as the baptismal entry text names a Margaret Gordon as the "wife" of Alexander Gordon in Haddoch from 1749 to June 1755.


Moreover there are two children named Elizabeth baptised in 1755: one in June 1755 to Alexander Gordon in Haddoch and his wife and one in December 1855 to Alexander Gordon in Bawhilloch and his wife.
The second of these births is compatible with the marriage that took place in the February of 1755.
The Elizabeth Gordon baptised in June 1755 was the last child of Alexander Gordon and Margaret Gordon in Haddoch.
The Elizabeth Gordon baptised in December 1755 was the first child of Alexander Gordon and Margaret Gordon in Bawhilloch.


To the suggestion that Alexander Gordon in Haddoch's wife could have died and that he remarried, in February 1755, another woman named Margaret Gordon, one must point to the two Elizabeths baptised in 1755. If these were the children of the same parents, then one Elizabeth would have to have been baptised considerably later than usual, to then have died, and the parents to have named their next child, born very soon after the death, by the same name of Elizabeth. That there were two different couple and families is more likely. ⁴

Alexander married Margaret GORDON, daughter of Peter GORDON in Crofts and Elizabeth GORDON, on 27 February 1755 in Cabrach parish, Banffshire, Scotland.^{1 2} (Margaret GORDON was baptised on 3 September 1735 in Glenbucket parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
MARGARET
ALEXANDER GORDON/
27/02/1755
177/ 10 290
Cabrach"

from Index of Marriages



Old Parish Registers
Cabrach parish Banffshire
Marriages

"February 9^th 1755
Alexander Gordon & Margaret Gordon both in this Parish were contracted in order to marriage & after regular proclamations were married February 27^{th" 1 2}