GORDON, James, Major ¹

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
JAMES
JOHN GORDON/JANET PROKTER
M
18/01/1780
162 10 / 222
MORTLACH"

from Births and Baptisms


Old Parish Registers
Mortlach parish Banffshire
Baptisms

"Baptized 1780
Gordon
18^th Jar^y
James son to John Gordon and Janet Prokter his wife in Miltown of Laggan Witn - Ja^s Gordon in Recletich & Ja^s Gordon in Achnastank"




"739. James. 1799, Cadet H.E.I.C.S. (Bengal). 1800, Oct. 9, Ens., 15th N.I. 1803, Jul. 13, Lt. 1806, Adj., 2nd Batn. 1809, Dec. 23, Capt. 1810, D.A.G. (act.); served in several campaigns, twice wounded. 1817, Jun. 12, d. Jun. 13, bur. at Fort William, Bengal. The Marquis of Hastings wrote (Gen. Orders), Jun. 18 :

'The Comdr.-in-Chief considers it due to the memory of a deserving public servant to record the high sense entertained ... of the merits of Maj. Gordon and of the loss which the army has sustained by the premature death of an officer, who in the early part of his He was distinguished by his professional gallantry and exertions, ... by his conduct maintained invariably the reputation of the army. ... In an early period of his service, Maj. Gordon's abilities and character obtained for him the gratifying distinction of being appointed to a public situation in the Adjutant General's official department, where, actuated by the purest principles and the warmest zeal for his employers, he devoted his talents to the successful discharge of the duties of an important and laborious office until compelled to relinquish his official avocation by that state of health which ultimately deprived the country of his valuable services (E.I. Reg., 1800-18).'

Second son of John, in Laggan (d. 1795 [see Note below]), cadet of Beldorney; b. 1780, bap. 1781, Jan. 7, at Mortlach. By will dated Calcutta 1817, May 7, proved there Jun. 14, he appointed Maj. Charles Stewart, H.E.I.C.S., Capt. Jeremiah Bryant, H.E.I.C.S., John Angus and Aeneas Mackintosh, of Calcutta, executors with his brother and residuary legatee, John, 932; gave to his mother an annuity of 80, to his brother Harry, 619, 40,000 Sicca Rs., to his sister Betty, 40,000 Sicca Rs., and to each of her five children 100, to his sister Ann, the interest on 4000 Sicca Rs. and such further sum as made £30 a year until she m. and then the 4000 Rs., to Mrs. Irvine, Gt. Maryborough Street, London, 105, and to Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, and Cosmo Gordon, H.M. Customs, Liverpool, £5 5s. each for a ring (I.O. Rec. ; Birnie MS.; Bulloch's Gordons in Laggan)."

from Gordons Under Arms

Note:

1

In his father's the entry the date of the father's death is noted as 1799, not 1795

2

The birth and baptism details are not identical to the baptism record noted above ^{1 3 4}