GORDON, Adam 3rd of Glenbucket (of Park family, renounced lairdship), Captain 1
- Born: About 1677, Scotland
- Died: Holland
Cause of his death was 'a decay'.2
User ID: F750.
General Notes:
The Poll Book of 1696 for the parish of Glenbucket shows Adam, son of Adam Gordon of Park, renouncing himself as heir and denying his rights as heritor. His mother, Jean Douglas, was liferentrix. Adam sold the estate to a 'cousin' in the early 1700s.
"Eldest son of Adam (d. 1693), of Glenbucket, and Jean Douglas, of the Glenbervie family. 1696, imprisoned his mother for thirty days in Glenbucket Castle (as she complained to the Privy Council). 1701, got into debt, and had to dispose of the property to John Gordon, of Knockespock, father of the notorious Jacobite, General John Gordon, of Glenbucket. 1713, Oct. 19, figures, as 'Adam Gordon of Inverbuckett, captain of his regiment,' in an entail by Sir James Gordon of Park, as one of the heirs to Park (Park Charter Chest). He had two brothers, Ensign Alexander, and 'Lifetennant Robert, who married and yet lives' (Balbithan MS.). Grd.-nephew of Adam, 1640"
from Gordons Under Arms:
"(Gordon), Adam, gentleman, son, to umquhill Adam, sometime of Glenbucket, having renounced to be air to his deceist father [Adam] before the Sheriff of Aberdeen, and denies to be heritor. Jeane Douglass, lyverentrix of Glenbucket. [His brothers and sisters were] Robert, Alexander, Margaret, Helen, Jacabona (all these five children unprovyded). I. 518." (quoting 1696 Poll Book)
from Appendix ll Pollable Persons
"Gordon Laird of Glenbuicket who married the Laird of Glenbervie's daughter Dowglass, with whom he begat three Sons and a Daughter, viz. his eldest son Captain Adam Gordon Laird of Glenbuicket who dyed abroad in Holland of a Decay,"
from Balbithan MS
"Adam Gordon, who entered the army, attained the rank of captain. He 'dyed abroad in Holland of a Decay' (Balbithan MS.), before which, however, Glenbucket had been sold to John Gordon, son of George Gordon of Noth, Chamberlain of Strathbogie and laird of Knockespock. John Gordon sold Knockespock, and was afterwards designed as of Glenbucket. He was the father of John Gordon, the famous Jacobite General."
from Epitaphs and Inscriptions 1 2 3 4
Noted events in his life were:
1. Witness: at baptisms, February 1703, Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 5
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