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Persoonlijke gegevens Robert (Pltg.Huntly) Gordon 

• Hij is geboren rond 1760 in Inverness, Scotland.
• Functie: plantage Borlum & Huntly, Demerara.

  Eigenaar plantage Borlum (nr 37 op de Oost-Zeekust) in Berbice en plantage Huntly in Demerara.

• Vermelding vanaf 5 oktober 1799: Robert Gordon of Jamaica.

  Robert Gordon; of Jamaica / James Marr of Alderston
  
  James Dunn of Alderston was laird in 1795, and at 5th October 1799, when Isabella Dunn, his second daughter, was married to Robert Gordon of Jamaica. In the year 1802 Mr Dunn is described as of Ilcriot Row, EdinburL,di, and the title of the lands and barony of Alderston vested at that period in his brother-in-law, Richard Dickson of Logic-green, the brother of Mary Dickson his wife. This gentleman died before 11th November 1803, and the property was, by disposition dated 15th June 1807, conveyed by his trustees to Miss Elizabeth Bruce, eldest daughter of David Bruce of Kinnaird, county Stirling, and sister of James Bruce of Kinnaird, the celebrated African traveller, and explorer of the sources of the Nile. The family which now becameproprietors of Alderston, could thus claim to be lineal descendants of the hero of Bannockburn, although in the male line they were not Bruces but Hays, David Bruce of Kinnaird before alluded to, being a son of David Hay of Woodcockdalc, in Linlithgowshire, who took the surname of Bruce on his marriage with Helen Bruce, the heiress of Kinnaird. She was succeeded by William Bruce of Alderston, who had seisin of the estate on 17th May 1827, upon an assignation by Miss Bruce's trustees, under burden of annuities to each of his sisters, Elizabeth, Agnes and Margaret Bruce ; and he continued laird of Alderston for a period of upwards of thirty years.
  Dying unmarried, Mr Bruce bequeathed the property to Mrs Janet Bathgate Colquhoun, wife of Dr James Marr, a physician in Edinburgh, by whom it was again conveyed, on the 14th May 1873, to John Wilson of Alderston, the present proprietor.
  From: Hardy Bertram McCall - The history and antiquities of the parish of Mid-Calder; p.95 NETHER ALDERSTON.

• (Bezit) .

  Plantation Borlum (No.37) Berbice.
  Plantation Hurly, Nickerie.

• Hij is overleden augustus 1809 in Inverness, Scotland (house Drakies).
• Een kind van Peter Gordon (of Borlum) en Jane Fraser of Kirkhill
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 29 juni 2024.

Gezin van Robert (Pltg.Huntly) Gordon

Hij is getrouwd met Isabelle Dunn.

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Kind(eren):

1. James Gordon (of Huntly)  ± 1790-1864 

Notities over Robert (Pltg.Huntly) Gordon

Mr. Robert Gordon had been in the West Indies, and making a fortune, came home and purchased the property of Drakies, near Inverness.
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Donald Sage, Memorabilia Domestica
Robert and Peter Gordon were the sons of Peter Gordon of Borlum (Inverness). Robert owned plantation Borlum (No 37 on the East Sea Coast) in Berbice and plantation Huntly in Demerara. He returned to Inverness and in 1803 he was making plans for a large house at Drakies, although a fellow Invernessian in Guyana, Donald Mackay, thought that he would ‘do well to go on a more oeconomical plan – his West Indian estate can afford to contribute but little’. [GD23/6/391/4 Letters of Donald Mackay toJames Grant]
He gifted a half share in plantation Borlum to his brother Peter, who died at sea on his way to Barbados on 25th November 1807 [Essequebo & Demerara Gazette, 26 Dec 1807]. He left £400 to purchase the freedom of 'a Mulattoe child' named in his willwritten in Demerara on 4 May 1807 [NAS GD23/7/39]
Robert Gordon returned to Demerara in August 1808 'to inspect and regulate his property . . . which had fallen into some derangement due to bad markets and unproductive crops' and died in the colony in August 1809. His affairs were left in the hands of his mother and his father’s sister Jane Gordon (wife of Rev Donald Fraser of Kirkhill, whose brother, Alexander, had died in Berbice). [NAS GD23/10/667]
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Drakies was sold and a complex legal case followed to deal with his debts. [Colin Campbell v Alexander Anderson]

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