GORDON, William 4th of Farskane, Merchant in Norway ^{2 3}

   Other names for William were GORDON, William of Faskin ⁴ and GORDON, Wm.

  General Notes:

William was a merchant in Norway. He sold his estate to Lord Findlater.



"(Gordon, William) sometime merchant in Norway, to his father William of Farskine h. gen. S. H., 18 Jan. ; 10 Feb. 1780"

"William Gordon of the Farskane family was a merchant at Christiansand, circa 1758. William Gordon was a merchant in Gothenburg in 1812 (Scots Mag.)."

from House of Gordon

Note: Kristiansand is in southern Norway; Gothenburg is in Sweden. Only the first of these descriptions from House of Gordon relates to this William Gordon. ^{2 5 6}

William married Margaret DUFF, daughter of James DUFF of Crombie and Jean MELDRUM heiress of Crombie, in 1725 in Rathven parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Margaret DUFF was born in 1700 ⁷ and died in 1789 ⁷.)

  Marriage Notes:

Rathven Old Parish Register, Vol.2: Marriages, pp 1-30a/31a, 1716-1750

"30 MAY 1725 WM. GORDON of Farskan [Farskane] was thrice proclaimed this day being a Lord's day with Mrs MARGARET DUFF Crombies daur in Abirchirder. [Vol.2 p.14]."

" Margaret, born 1700; married to William Gordon of Farskane, whose mother was a Duff of Braco, by whom she had issue two sons and two daughters (see chapter xxxii.). Her husband was the fourth and last William Gordon of Farskane. She died in 1789, in her ninetieth year."

from Book of the Duffs ^{1 7}