GORDON, James tenant of Mill of Auchindoir ¹

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  General Notes:

"Several tombstones (mostly table-shaped) lie upon the north-east side of the burial ground (in Auchindoir parish) . The oldest, which is ornamented with crossed bones, a sand glass, and a bell, presents the following traces of an inscription: \emdash
GORDON . LAVFUL . SPOVS . TO . MARGARET . STRACHAN . WHO . DEPARTED . THIS. LIFE . AUGUST . . . 1720 . AGED . \emdash 9.\emdash
The erector of this is said to have been James Gordon, tenant of Mill of Auchindoir, whose daughter Elizabeth was twice married, first to William Forbes, and next to Charles Lumsden. By the former, who succeeded to the farm, she had, with other children, a son William, who became a coppersmith and burgess of Aberdeen,...
The coppersmith, who married a daughter of the Rev. Mr.. Dyce, minister of Belhelvie, was the father of William Forbes, who bought the estates of Calender, &c., Stirlingshire, in 1783."

from Epitaphs ¹

James married.