GORDON, Lewis in Milltown of Laggan, then Tomnagyloch, Jacobite 1745 ^{2 3}

   Other names for Lewis were GORDON, Lodvick ^{4 5} and GORDON, Ludvick.^{4 5}

   User ID: G87.

  Research Notes:

TAMNAGAILACH

"Tomnagyloch: NJ280329 OS Explorer sheet 425,426

Tomnagoilach: approx. 3:5:0W 57:24:0N Thomson's Atlas (1832)"

from Banffshire Place Names ⁶

Lewis married Janet SMITH on 22 May 1755 in Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Janet SMITH was born about 1730.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
LEWIS
JANET SMITH/
22/05/1755
162
20 / 33
MORTLACH"

from Index of Marriages


Old Parish Registers
Mortlach parish Banffshire
Marriages

"May 22d 1755
Gordon & Smith
Lewis Gordon & Janet Smith Parishioners after proclamation of Banns were married"




"2135. Lewis. 1745, carried arms and collected cess for the rebels. 1746, May 7, at home (Rosebery's List, 108, 324).
Resided at the Mill of Laggan ibid., 108); probably son of Thomas (see Note below), in Auchnastank, whose son James (d. 1763) lived at the Laggan of Auchindoun; James's brother Lewis, who lived at Tomnagayloch, was his executor in 1759; m. 1755 May 22, Janet Smith, Achmore, and had John, 915, and Thomas, 1332. Mill town of Laggan (J, M. Bulloch, Banffshire Field Club Trans., 1907, Jan. 31 P- 32).

from Gordons Under Arms ^{1 7}