GORDON, Thomas of 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Captain 1 2 3 4
- Born: 16 September 1785, Mortlach parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2 4
- Died: 17 September 1819, Kingston, Jamaica 1
Cause of his death was yellow fever.1
User ID: N64.
General Notes:
"GORDON
THOMAS
JNO. GORDON/
M
16/09/1785
162 10 / 335
Mortlach"
from Births and Baptisms
Old Parish Registers
Mortlach parish Banffshire
Baptisms in 1803 and preceding
"Keithmore August 23 -1799
In presence of William Marshall one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Banff -----------
Compeared Jno. Gordon residing in Tillachallum in the Parish of Mortlach and represented that his son Alexander Gordon was born on the seventh day of May One Thousand seven hundred and eighty one years That his son William was born the second day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty three That his son Thomas was born the sixteenth day of September Seventeen hundred and eighty five... compear'd Alexander Sinclar residing at Laichie a married man aged thirty and upwards who being solemnly sworn, depones...That Thomas Gordon another of the said Jno Gordon's sons was born of the seventeenth day of Septemr seventeen hundred and Eighty five "
"1336 - Thomas. 1805, Feb. 12, Ens., Aberdeensh. Mil. L.G., 797; List of Offs. Mil., and Vols., 1807, p. i), obtained com. through the interest of the Duke of Gordon, also com. in 92nd Ft. (Gordon Highlrs.) as Ens., 1807, Jul. 4 L.G., 896, 1 143). 1808, Aug. 2, Ft. ibid., 1051). 'Served at battles of Corunna, Salamanca, Burgos, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Bayonne, Toulouse and Waterloo (Medal) without having ever received a wound' S.M., vol. 6, p. 189; A.L., 1808-20; Dalton's Waterloo Roll Call).
Fourth son of John, in Tullochallum, Mortlach d. 1824), who belonged to the Gordons in Achnarrow Huntly Express, 1906, Jul. 13, 20), and Mary Dawson d. 1820); brother of the famous Priest Charles Gordon; d. 1819, Sep. 17, at Kingston, Jamaica, of yellow fever, 'esteemed as an officer and a Christian by all who knew him, . . . deplored by his relatives and deeply regretted by his brother officers and acquaintances' S.M., vol. 6, p. 189)."
from Gordons Under Arms 1 2 4
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