GORDON, John Taylor WS, 9th and last of Nethermuir 1
- Born: 1801 1
- Marriage (1): WATSON, Margaret Grant in 1855 1
- Died: 24 June 1884, Fairfield House, Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland 1
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General Notes:
"John Taylor Gordon was the second son of Maxwell Gordon, W.S., and was born in 1801. He succeeded his father in 1809, and his uncle John, of Nethermuir, in 1836. He was admitted a Writer to the Signet, Nov. 18, 1825, having- been apprenticed to James Heriot. He succeeded through his mother to the estate of Blackhouse, Ayrshire, and inherited the lease of the Auchencairn coal mines."
"He sold Nethermuir in 1872 (it extended to 2298 acres in 1874) to Lord Provost William Leslie, Aberdeen (1802-79), who was the son of Alexander Leslie, mason in Auchreddie (1765- 1842), and who was succeeded by his nephew, Mr John Dean Leslie (Henderson's 'Epitaphs,' i., 410)."
from The Gordons of Nethermuir
John married Margaret Grant WATSON, daughter of Robert WATSON and Robina GRANT, in 1855.1 (Margaret Grant WATSON was baptised on 3 September 1830 in Forres parish, Moray, Scotland 2 and died in 1916 in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland 3.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (John Taylor Gordon) married, 1855, Margaret Grant (see Note below), daughter of Robert Watson. In October, 1860, Mrs Gordon, 'the lady of Nethermuir,' laid the last keystone of the railway bridge at Cairncummer, Nethermuir, in 'true Masonic style.' The 'Aberdeen Journal' (Oct. 24, 1860) says that her 'workmanlike way of handling the hammer called forth the unbounded applause of the Masonic brethren who constructed the bridge, and who, along with many others, were witnesses of the ceremony,' Mrs Gordon informed me (Oct. 23, 1900) that her husband 'did not give much attention to genealogy, being content to know that he was a man of a really good family.' John Taylor Gordon was succeeded by his only son John Maxwell Gordon."
from The Gordons of Nethermuir
Note:
John Taylor Gordon married Margaret Watson, daughter of Robert Watson and Margaret Grant. 1 4
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