GORDON, Alexander 3rd of Glengerrack, Jacobite 1715 ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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  General Notes:

"GORDON
ALEXANDER
CHARLES GORDON/
M
00/01/1698
159/ 10 27
Keith"

from Births and Baptisms




"THE GORDONS OF GLENGERACK.

'Glengerack' was Alexander Gordon, son of Charles Gordon and Margaret Duff, daughter of Alexander of Bracco. The father, Charles, who succeeded in 1692, took an active part in county government. He first appears in the sederunt of a County Meeting held at Cullen on the last day of February 1699. On 5th May 1702, at a meeting of Commissioners of Supply, he took and subscribed the oaths of allegiance and assurance to Queen Anne; and his signature is that of one accustomed to write. He died in June 1712.

The Keith registers of baptisms shew that Alexander, who succeeded, was born in 1698. He was out in the Fifteen, frugally armed with a sword, which had earlier that year been consigned as a pledge by two parishioners of Keith, who were proclaimed but did not marry!

On 27th January 1721, in a process before the Kirk-session of Keith regarding the space in the Parish Church effeiring to his estate, he stated that he was 'but lately come to be major.' That year he married, at Inchdrewer, Helen Lauder, widow of George, 4th Lord Banff. He took an active interest in county affairs, and was active in improving the roads and bridges in his parish. The local tradition is that, in the decaying fortunes of his house, with a number of spirited young men from his native parish of Keith, he joined the King's forces abroad, and fell at Fontenoy in 1745. He is said to have been succeeded in 1745 by his brother William, who died soon thereafter. On 3rd October 1746, the only surviving brother, George, who was born in 1710, was served heir male in special to his father Charles in Glengerack; and later, on 10th November 1746, he took sasine thereon. He did not long survive.

With his death, survived by three sisters, the heirs male of the marriage of Charles Gordon and Helen Duff failed, and in terms of their marriage contract, dated I5th November 1694, and recorded 29th February 1748, the succession to Glengerack fell to his other heirs male. That heir male was Charles Gordon, merchant in Brechin, who was, on 7th March 1748, served heir male, and of provision of the said marriage contract to his grand uncle, Charles Gordon of Glengerack. On 25th August 1748, the surviving sisters, viz., Margaret, Katherine and Magdaline were served heirs portioners, in the barony of Glengerack, to their brother George Gordon, who died in May or June 1747. They took sasine thereon on 5th October 1748. After a reference to arbitration of their claims to the estate personal and real of their brother George Gordon, dated l0th, 12th and 17th May 1748, in which their cousin Charles Gordon was successful, they on 18th May 1748 conveyed Glengerack to him, who had meantime, on 17th March 1748, sold the lands and barony of Glengerack to William Duff, Baron Braco."

from Records of the County of Banff ^{5 7}

Alexander married Helen LAUDER, daughter of Sir John LAUDER of Fountainhall, 2nd Baronet and Marion ANDERSON, on 27 June 1721 in Banff parish, Banffshire, Scotland.^{1 2 3} (Helen LAUDER was baptised on 13 December 1689 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Scotland ⁵ and died on 22 October 1742 ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
ALEXANDER
HELEN LAUDER/
27/06/1721
147/
80 6
Banff"

"GORDON
ALEXANDER
HELEN OGILVIE/
20/06/1721
159/ 40 36
Keith"

from Index of Marriages




Old Parish Registers
Keith parish Banffshire
Marriages

"May the 29th 1721

Glengerack with Lady Bamff The much Honoured Alexander Gordon, Laird of Glengerack, And Dame Helen Ogilvie Lady Bamff, were matrimonially contracted at Inchdrour as a warrant under their hands to publish their marriage banns, both testifie and being orderly proclaimed were married at Inchdrour by the Minr of Keith June the 20th 1721"




"Helen, daughter of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, Lord of Session .... was married, secondly, on 27 June 1721, to Alexander Gordon of Glengerrack"

from Scots Peerage (vol 2)




"Margaret Duff's eldest son Alexander succeeded early to the property, and was in 1716, being then only eighteen years of age, one of the sixteen Heritors of Banffshire. He married, in 1721, at Inchdrewer, Jean Helen Ogilvie, Lady Banif. He was a Major in the Army and fell at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He left no children, and was succeeded by his next brother William, who was in embarrassed circumstances, and for this reason was for some time in sanctuary in the Abbey of Ilolyrood.

from Book of the Duffs




"Gordon, Alexander, of Glengerack

Son of Charles Gordon of Glengerack and Margaret Duff, eldest daughter of Alexander Duff of Braco. Born in 1698, he married in 1721 at Inchdrewer Castle, Helen Lauder, daughter of Sir John Lauder, 2nd Baronet of Fountaihall, and widow of George, 4th Lord Banff."

from Jacobites of 1715 ^{1 2 3 4 6}