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• Hij is geboren op 13 september 1804 in Halkirk, Caitness, Scotland.

  From: Scottis Slave-owners in Suriname, 1651-1863 - David Alston.
  The Macdonald brothers, Alexander (1800–70) and Gordon (1804–59), were among the last Scots to move to Suriname, buy plantations and own slaves.
  Both were born in the parish of Halkirk, Caithness, (Inverness, Scotland, UK) where their father John Macdonald (1752–1840) was a substantial farmer and cattle drover.
  On his death they went with their mother, Barbara Gordon, to Pictou, Nova Scotia, where two of her brothers were already settled, and from there moved to Suriname. They probably used the connections made by another of Barbara’s brothers, Gilbert, and Gilbert’s son, John Sutherland Gordon, who had established themselves in Berbice and Demerara.
  In 1853 Alexander bought Bellevue and Gordon bought Moy, both on the Coronie coast, from the heirs of Alexander Ferrier.
  Gordon died in Scotland in 1859. Alexander received compensation for slaves on plantations John and Bellevue in 1863, and died in Suriname in 1870.[61]
  [62]. Inverness Courier, 12 November 1909, report of Court of Session case arising from the will of Gordon Macdonald; manumission record available online from Nederlands Nationall Archief, but surname wrongly transcribed as ‘Namilton’; census returns.

• Hij werd gedoopt in Halkirk, Caitness, Scotland.
• Functie vanaf 13 april 1858.

  Sur.Courant 13 april 1858; Gouvernements-Secretarie. Paramaribo den 12 Apil 1858 (4568) Ten verzoeke van Gordon mac Donald, wordt van zijn voorgenomen vertrek uit de kolonie aankondiging gedaan. De Gouvernements Secretaris E.A.van Emden.

• Eigendommen:
• van 1853 tot 1861 Plantage Moy, coronie.

  Gordon Macdonald (above) bought plantation Moy on the Coronie coast of Surinam, in 1853, from the heirs of Alexander Ferrier (Cardross). [The Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1861]

• vanaf 6 april 1855 Plantaadje Totness en Friendship, Coronie.

  Surinaamsch WeekBlad no. 100, Zondag 01-04-1855 no. 13 (N.A.S.) ADVERTISSEMENTEN De vroeger geannonceerde verkoop van de plantaadjen TOTNESS en FRIENDSHIP, gelegen in Coronie, dewelke zeer geschikt zijn voor katoen cultuur en kweekgronden, zal alnu plaats vinden op vrijdag den 6 april des morgens om 9 ure, bij- en door den Vendumeester J. C. GOMPERTS, alwaar de koopconditien ter inzageilig×eၵ雜⃑骈ꉔ貼뉙觜Კ㚁ఞ㽳 den 31 maart 1855 D. C. MUNRO qq De plantages werden aangekocht door de broers (of neven) G. Macdonald (Totness) en A. Macdonald (Friendship) .
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  Surinaamsche Courant en Gouvernements Advertentie Blad no. 99, Donderdag 19-07-1855 no. 86 (N.A.S.) ADVERTISSEMENTEN TRANSPORTEN Den 16 julij 1855, J. C. GOMPERTS Vendumeester aan G. MAC DONALD, van twee perceelen lands, bekend onder no. 223 en 224, dragende den naam van plant. TOTNESS, gelegen in CORONIE Idem, dezelve aan A. MAC DONALD, van de plant. FRIENDSHIP, gelegen in CORONIE Paramaribo den 16 julij 1855 De Griffier bij het Geregtshof MARTINI VAN GEFFEN

• vanaf 21 juli 1861 Plantage Moy, Perseverance en Totness, Coronie.

  Surinaamsch Weekblad, 1861, 21 juli; De Vendumeester A.Salomons zal op Heden den 17. Julij des morgens om 9 uur verkoopen: De plantages MOY c.a. PERSEVERANCE 1/2 aandeel c.a. Alsmede Den Grond TOTNESS allen gelegen in CORONIE, aankomende de Boedel GORDON MACDONALD. Paramaribo, den 7 Julij 1861.

• (Curr.Vitae) tot 1859.

  Gordon MacDonald.
  Biography
  Slave-owner in Surinam, owner of Plantation Moy, which he bought in 1853. Brother of Alexander MacDonald (q.v.). Died in Scotland in 1859.
  
  Baptised 13/09/1804 in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, youngest son of John MacDonald (1752-1840) and Barbara Gordon (b. c. 1764, d. in Canada in 1850). Left Scotland after 1840, possibly for Canada, where his mother is known to have moved after her husband's death, and arrived in Surinam from Demerara 20/02/1848. He became Director of Waterloo estate in Nickerie in succession to Robert Kirke (q.v.) in 1849. In 1853 he moved to Coronie where he had purchased plantation Moy with about 130 enslaved people from the heirs of Alexander Ferrier of Surinam (q.v.). Subsequently, he acquired a quarter of pltg. Perseverance and some land in the settlement of Totness. He returned to Scotland c. April 1858, and died 28/06/1859 at Burnt Island. Robert Kirke was reportedly the only person present at his funeral. In 1855 Gordon MacDonald had a child Catherina born 15/09/1855 with an enslaved woman named Mary, a 'private [domestic] slave' of Mary C. Hamilton, the owner and administrator of pln. Hamilton in Coronie. Catherina was manumitted 09/03/1858 with the names Mary Classina Namilton [sic]; her name was later changed to Mary Classina MacDonald based on the terms of her father's will. Gordon MacDonald's estate, including Moy, Perserverance and his land at Totness were sold at auction in 1861.
  
  Sources
  Fully-sourced private communication from Gonda Nekrui-MacDonald dated 30/05/2016, drawing on research by Dr Alphonse L. MacDonald, who kindly reviewed and amended the original draft. In addition he pointed out that under Surinam law, manumitted persons could not be given the name of people living in the colony and therefore if the surname were to be linked, it would be by reversal, anagram or corruption of the name of the prior 'owner': hence 'Namilton' for Gordon MacDonald's child, whose owner had been Mary C. Hamilton.
  We are grateful to Gonda Nekrui-MacDonald and Dr Alphonse L. MacDonald for their help with this entry.

• Hij is overleden op 28 juni 1859 in Kirkton,Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.

  Small family stone coffin/mausoleum in Kirkton Old Churchyard, 'Macdonald Gordon Macdonald of Plantation Moy in Coronie Surinam d here 28.6.1859, da Classina Mary 8.11.1906

• Hij is begraven in Kirkton,Burntisland, Fife, Scotland (Churchyard).
• Een kind van John (Tackman) MacDonald of Achscarlet en Barbara Gordon
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 29 juni 2024.

Gezin van Gordon [Pltg.Moy] MacDonald

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Classina MacDonald (geb. Namilton).

Zij zijn getrouwd na 1858 te Coronie, Suriname.

Kind(eren):

1. Classina Mary Classinda  1855-1906 

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