GORDON, Katharine ²

   Another name for Katharine was GORDON, Catherine.¹

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Katharine married Cosmo George GORDON 11th Earl, 6th Marquis, 3rd Duke of Gordon, son of Alexander GORDON 10th Earl, 5th Marquis and 2nd Duke of Gordon, Jacobite 1715 and Henrietta MORDAUNT, on 3 September 1741 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland.¹ (Cosmo George GORDON 11th Earl, 6th Marquis, 3rd Duke of Gordon was born about 1720 ¹ and died on 5 August 1752 in Breteuil, near Amiens, France ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
COSMO GEORGE
KATHARINE GORDON/FR243 NOB (FR243)
03/09/1741
126
10 / 240
Bellie"

"GORDON
COSMO GEORGE DU
KATHARINE GORDON/FR385
03/09/1741
143
20 / 31
Speymouth"

from Index of Marriages



"He (Cosmo Gordon) married, at Dunkeld, 3 September 1741, Catherine, only daughter of his brother-in-law, William, second Earl of Aberdeen, by his second wife...... She, who was born 20 October 1718, died in London 10 December 1779, and was buried in Elgin Cathedral..... By her the Duke had issue:

1. George, fourth Duke of Gordon. (Addenda et Corrigenda "p. 554, 1. 12, for ' George ' read ' Alexander.' ")

2. William, born at York 15 August 1744; lieutenant 89th Foot 1759; travelled abroad with his brother the Duke 1762-63; captain 37th Foot 1764. He resigned his commission 1769. In Auugust of the following year, owing to the scandal caused by his elopement with Lady Sarah Bunbury in February of that year, he started, with a knapsack on his back and his hair cut short, to walk to Rome, his only companion being a large dog. He came home again in time, and was on 13 February 1778 appointed Deputy Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks. He was lieutenant-colonel of the North Fencible Regiment 11 April 1778; sat in Parliament for Morayshire 1779-84, for Inverness-shire 1784-90, and for Horsham 1702-6. He was Vice-Admiral for Scotland 1782-95. Died 1 May 1823. He married, 1 March 1781, Frances Ingram Shepherd, second daughter and co-heir of Charles, ninth Viscount Irvine ; she was a ward of the Chancellor, who opposed the marriage. She died 29 September 1841, aged eighty, leaving an only daughter Frances Isabella Ker (died 1831), whom Reynolds used as the model of his famous picture of Heads of Angels in the National Gallery.

3. George, baptized 27 January 1752 ..... chiefly associated with the great 'No Popery ' riots in London of 1780.

4. Susan, married, first, at Harley Street, London, 28 May 1767, 2 as his second wife, to John (Fane), ninth Earl of Westmoreland, and had issue; he died 25 April 1774, and she was married, secondly, 28 December 1778, at St. James's, Westminster, to Lieutenant-Colonel Woodford, 1st Foot Guards, and lieutenant-colonel Gordon Fencibles ; by him, who died at Edinburgh 18, and was buried at Holyrood 27, April 1800, she had two sons. She died, 11 December 1814, in London, aged sixty-eight.

5. Anne .... married, on 24 September 1782, to Alexander Chalmers, minister of the parish of Cairnie.

6. Catherine, born in Conduit Street, London, 26 January 1751, married to Thomas Booker, captain 53rd Regiment, with issue, and died at Boyndie 3 January 1797 ; testament confirmed 13 June 1797."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ^{1 2 3}

Katharine next married General Staats Long MORRIS MP, Governor of Quebec 25 March 1756(Faculty Licence).¹ (General Staats Long MORRIS MP, Governor of Quebec was born on 27 August 1728 in Morrisiana, New York, USA,⁴ died on 2 April 1800 in England ⁴ and was buried in 1800 in Westminster Abbey, London, England ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

"..... Catherine (Gordon), only daughter of ..... William, second Earl of Aberdeen, by his second wife. She was married, secondly (Faculty licence, 25 March 1756), to Staats Long Morris, aged twenty-five, at that time of New York, but afterwards a general in the Army, and M.P. for Elgin Burghs, 1774-89."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)

Note:

General Long Morris was older than 25 when he married Katharine Gordon. ¹