GORDON, Charles 8th of Blelack, Jacobite 1745, Captain ¹

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Charles married Anne URQUHART, daughter of John URQUHART of Meldrum and Jean CAMPBELL.^{1 2} (Anne URQUHART was born in 1708 ¹ and died in 1798 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Gordon, Charles, of Blelack

Second son of Alexander of Blelack and Isobel Forbes 'a masculine character'. In 1726 he succeeded his brother John. He married Anne Urquhart of Meldrum, whose mother was a Campbell of Cawdor. A Captain, he forced men out, and escaped imprisonment although he took part in the battles of Inverurie Falkirk and Culloden taking refuge in the manse of Towie, where he was fed by the minister's wife, Mrs Lumsden. He eventually returned peacefully to his ruined home, and died there in 1785, aged 80."

from Jacobites of 1745




"2071- Charles. 1745, Capt. ; 'forced men out of Lord Aboyne's estate' (Rosebery's List, 10), being able to do so because he had his letters addressed to the Mill of Gellan, Corse, of which the tenant was anti-Jacobite. He was hand-in-glove with Lord Lewis Gordon ....

.... Second son of Alexander, of Blelack (d. 1724) and Isobel Forbes, 'a masculine character'. 1726, succeeded his brother John ; m. Anne Urquhart (1708-98), and had an only child Isobel (see Note below), who m. George Forbes, of Skellater ; d. 1785, Oct. 19, aged 80 at Blelack (Abd. Jour.) ; succeeded by his sister Helen (Mrs. Hugh Rose's) grandson, Charles Rose (1761-1806), who took the name of Gordon, and sold the property in 1794 to William Gordon, Vintner, Dundee (Michie's Logie Coldstone, 163-6)."

from Gordons Under Arms

Note:

The Isobel Gordon who married George Forbes of Skellater was this Charles Gordon's cousin, not his daughter. She was the daughter of his uncle Charles Gordon. ^{1 2}