GORDON, Charles in Pitchaise, Captain 2
- Born: About 1663
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Rachel 10th Lady of Abergeldie before 5 July 1698 1
Other names for Charles were GORDON, Charles of Auchinharroch, now of Abergeldie 3 and GORDON, Charles in Kirdels, Captain.3
General Notes:
"292- Charles. 1696, Capt., Col. Lauder's Ft., co-respondent in a divorce suit of John Grant, of Ballindalloch, against Anna Leslie (printed in the Banffshire Herald, 1910, Oct. 1).
Son of Patrick, of Laichie, 1129; m Rachel Gordon, heiress of Abergeldie (House of Gordon, i. (94); Bulloch's Gordons in Minmore, 10, 11)."
from Gordons Under Arms
'Pitchash is in the parish of Inveravon, on the opposite bank of the Spey from Mains of Kirdels. On May 26, 1696, William Gordon, brother to John Gordon of Edintore notes that "grants were to have been received from Charles Gordon in Kirdels, the soume of ane hundredth and two merks half merk, Scots money, contained in a bond and obligment, granted by him as principall to John Cumming in Tarmore, Inveravon, as cautioner : and therefore I, the said William Gordon, simpliciter, discharges the said Charles Gordon," Keith, September 2, 1696 : registered September 7, 1696. Charles shifted about, for in August 1699 he is described as "of Auchinharroch, now of Abergeldie" (Commissary Court Books of Moray).'
'It has been stated, with no very clear proof, that he was captain and adjutant of the Scots Guards in 1688.'
from The Gordons and Smiths in Minmore
The child below was probably named after this man:
Old Parish Register
Strathdon Parish Aberdeenshire
Baptisms
1699
"July 6 - John gordone in fogie miln had a son baptized Charles after Charles Gordone Lard of Abergeldie witneses John Gressech in chapeltoun and the kirk officer" 3 4 5 6
Charles married Rachel GORDON 10th Lady of Abergeldie, daughter of Alexander GORDON 8th of Abergeldie and Euphemia GRAHAM, before 5 July 1698.1 (Rachel GORDON 10th Lady of Abergeldie was born about 1667.)
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