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GORDON, Robert
(About 1695-)
GORDON, John Farmer in Clashnore, Jacobite 1745
(About 1720-Before 1790)
NAIRN, Janet
(About 1715-1772)
GORDON, John
(1747-1810)

 

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GORDON, John 1

  • Born: 18 May 1747, Glenlivet, Banffshire, Scotland 1 2
  • Died: 15 February 1810, Castelnau, Auch, France 2

  General Notes:

"(The following fragment was copied in 1909 from an autograph of Bishop Geddes then brown through age and almost illegible-a number of Geddes MSS. are so browned as hardly to be touched; I have not seen this fragment, but there are many now quite illegible.)
Memorie
della Casa di Scalan
dai 4 di Settembre
dell' anno
1762.
1. Ai 4 di Settembre l'anno 1762 il S.D. Giovanni Geddes venne da Shenval a Scalan per aver la Direzione di questa casa. Trovo quivi il Sig. Giacomo Gray con tre giovani sotto la sua cura -. Alessandro Cameron, figlio del Sig. Giacomo Cameron e della Sig.ra-Mclntosh in Braemar pronipote del Sig. Don. Tomasso Brockie il quale allora aveva quindeci anni passati ed aveva quasi finito di studiare la Grammatica- Giovanni Gordon figlio del Sig. Giovanni Gordon e della Sig.ra Giovanetta Nairn in Clashnore di quindici anni passati il quale studiava la Grammatica-ed Alessandro Gordon figlio del Sig. Giovanni Gordon e della Sig.ra Elizabeta Grant in Minmore di anni . . . il quale studiava la Grammatica."

from Registers of Scalan 1

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Scots College, 1764, Rome, Italy. 2

2. Ordained priest, 5 June 1773, Lateran Basilica, Rome. 2

3. Vice Rector: of Scots College, 1776, Valladolid, Spain. 2

4. Rector: of Scots College, 1798, Valladolid, Spain. 2


Sources


1 Innes Review, The Surviving Registers of Scalan College ed W.J. Anderson IR 14 1963.

2 Internet Site, The Scots College in Spain by Maurice Taylor 1971 at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/spain/collegendx.htm.

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