GORDON, Alexander 4th of Arradoul and Bailie of Badenoch, Captain 1 2
- Born: About 1612
- Marriage (1): KING, Cecilia before 24 September 1675 1
- Died: Before 5 June 1684 1
General Notes:
"(Gordon), Alexander, de Arradoull, h. Jacobi de Arradoull, fratris germani, in villis et terris de Arradoull extendentibus ad 8 bovatas terrarum, infra dominium de Einzie et parochiam de Raphane. E. 20!., etc., feudifermae
I. S. (Banff), 23 Jul. 1663"
from House of Gordon
"121- Alexander. . Capt. ; 2nd son of William of Knockespock (alive in 1642) and his wife Helen Gordon Balbithan MS.)."
from Gordons Under Arms
"Alexander Gordon, who was Baillie of Badenoch, was Huntly's right hand man. Like his father, he was a strong anti-Covenanter. Thus, on May 22, 1647, the General Assembly ordered his ex-communication ('Commissions of the General Assembly,' Scot. Hist. Soc. xi. 243), and it was carried out on June 9, 1647 ('Records of Elgin,' ii. 256, and the 'Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 75).
In Cramond's 'Kirk-Session of Elgin Records,' he is described at this date as 'younger' of Arradoul. In 1648 he gave in a supplication to the Presbytery of Fordyce to be 'relaxit from the dreadful rule of excommunication pronounced against him be the commission of the kirk' (ibid.); and on Feb. 23, 1648, he 'confessed access to the last rebellion, and subscribed the bond' ('Presbytery Book of Strathbogie,' p. 85). On June 20, 1649, the Presbytery of Rathven recommended to the General Assembly that Alexander Gordon, 'son to William Gordon of Arradoul', might be relaxed (Cramond's 'Church of Rathven';). On March 4, 1651, Alexander Gordon, 'in Aradoul,' returning from the Commission of the Church, presented an ordinance to the Presbytery of Rathven from the Commission requiring a particular testimony anent the guiltiness and sense thereof and signs of renentance in the said Alexander. On April 2, Mr. William Scroggie, the minister of Rathven. reported that he had received the said Alexander, who 'caried himself verie humblie and penitently in acknowledging of all his offences' (Craraond's 'Church of Rathven').'
'On June 5, 1684, there was registered the receipt for stipend by Sir James Strachan of Thornton, minister of Keith, for crop and vear 1683, from lands of Maislie life-rented by Cecilia King, relict of umqll. Aradoule...'
from Gordons of Cairnfield 3 4
Noted events in his life were:
1. Admitted: Burgess of Guild, 6 September 1664, Aberdeen. 1
2. Admitted: Commissioner of Supply, 6 September 1664, Inverness-shire, Scotland. 1
3. Acting as: Elder, 26 August 1675, Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland. 1
4. Admitted: Commissioner of Supply, 1678, Banffshire, Scotland. 1
Alexander married Cecilia KING before 24 September 1675.1 (Cecilia KING was born about 1642, died on 14 November 1707 1 and was buried on 21 November 1707 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland 1.)
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