GORDON, James Farmer of Croughly ¹

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  General Notes:

"...it is not difficult to understand how James's six sons, with the Gordon-Grant-
Forbes blood in their veins, all entered the military service of their country between the years 1781-1804 as follows :

1781 George (aged 16) .
1782 John (aged 19)
1793 William Alexander (aged 24)
1797 Robert (aged 17) .
1800 Charles (aged 18) .
1804 James (aged 28) .

Robert duly returned to farm Croughly and was followed by his only son John, who gave it up in 1843; two of the brothers had no issue; the other three became the ancestors of a regular military caste, which has done its day's "darg" in many parts of our Dominions.

Though they have not been connected with the old homestead for nearly seventy years, they are still recalled in the beautiful kirkyard of Kirkmichael by their moss-grown memorials, which form a little epitome of the great task of building up the Empire rarely equalled in similar circumstances."

from Gordon Under Arms ²

James married Anna FORBES, daughter of John FORBES of Bellabeg and Christan SHEPHERD, on 31 March 1760 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.¹ (Anna FORBES was baptised on 18 December 1736 in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"FORBES
ANNIE
JAMES GORDON/
31/03/1760
240 20 / 241
STRATHDON AND CORGARFF"

from Index of Marriages ¹