GORDON, Alexander in Croughly ¹

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  General Notes:

"As often happens in such cases, descendants of his two natural sons survive, notably the Gordons of Croughly, whose remarkable career - they have produced thirty officers - is not difficult to understand in view of the extraordinarily warlike characteristics of their ancestors" (page 212)

"Alexander Gordon in Cruchly, now spelt Croughly, in the neighbouring parish of Kirkmichael, nearly four miles south-west of Tombae. He was the ancestor of the Gordons in Croughly, who are described in that model of a genealogy, The Croughly Book, by Captain George Huntly Blair Gordon, privately printed in 1895." (page 213)

"The Croughly Gordons, probably because they had good farming land, kept clear of the general unruliness of their kinsfolk, but they would hardly have been human if they had not sheltered the latter. So we find, on 31st March 1636, that Thomas Gordon in 'Crochlie' - whose relationship, if any, with the main Croughly family is unknown - was charged with resetting rebels (Privy Council Register, 2nd series, vol. vi. p. 216)." (page 220)

from The Caterans of Inveraven

Note:

For more detailed information of the Gordons of Croughly see The Making of the Muster in the third volume of House of Gordon, Gordons Under Arms. ²

Alexander married.