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• Hij is geboren rond 1710 in Dalcharn, Kinbrace, Helmsdale, Scotland.
• Vermelding: Gilbert Gordon, Tuary, Kildonan.

  The Gordons in Sutherland, including the Embo family - by John Malcolm Bulloch, 1908 (page.111-ev)
  Spinnikgdale (Creich) — Wiliam Gordon at Spinningdale married Janet Macintosh and had a son William, baptised at Creich May 19, 1786. He was dead by 1807 when William entered the Bengal Infantry, his mother attesting his birth certificate. He became ensign in the 21st N.I. September 21, 1808; lieutenant in December 16, 1814 ; and died February 11, 1823 at Chunar. Tongue—Robert Gordon, native of Tongue, had a son, Charles James Mackay Gordon, born at Tobago June 17, 1866. He was Snel Exhibitioner
  at Baniol He took a 2nd class Mod. 1889, and 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1891, and B.A. 1892 He entered the service of the Government Training College, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Ceylon.
  Torghorpston —Sage (p. 281) describes Thomas Gordon, " who lived at the p ace of Torghordston," as " a decided Christian of great simplicity, far advanced in life. V) e had a grown up family who persuaded him to accompany them to America."
  Tuary (Kildonan)- An interesting example of how genealogy touches the affairs of to-day occurs in the advertisement recently printed in these columns, in which Erskine Dods and Rhind, S.-.C., Edinburgh, advertised for the heirs of Gordon Macdonald, Plantation Moy and of his brother, Alexander Macdonald, Plantation Bellevue, both in the district of ( oronie, Surinam, Dutch Guiana Both these Macdonalds were descended from the family of Gordon in Dalchairn, whom I have already treated briefly. Through the great courtesy of Erskine Dods and Rhind, I am now able to give more precise details. The interest in the family lies in this, that it may probably contain the heir presumptive to the baronecy of Embo, for the family documents before me contain the same statement as (pp.112) in Sage, that these Gordons were cadets of Embo.
  The most valuable document is some " memoranda written by the late Gilbert Gordon for the information of his children," dated Woodlands, January 1835, who wrote, as I wish all fathers would write : — My dear chi'dren—In case you shou'd at some future period when you launch out in the world be desirous to know something of your fore- fathers or the families from whom you are de- scended, for your information on that same I record the following It is commendable, as well as advisable, that youshould not only know your re- latives, but ndeavour to trace out those abroad of them and to make yourselves known to them [a counsel of pefection which has come to have a most intimate bearing on the family.]
  - The descent of these Gordons as given in the memoranda is as follows : —
  - Gilbert Gordon, Tuary, Kildonan, is stated in the memoranda as having been " descended in a direct line from the Gordon family of Embo," a fact which made him (jopu ar with the noble family of Suther and. He was appointed a forester by the Ear s of Sutherland, on account of his being such a poweru ly built man as to prevent depredations being committed on the Sutherland forest. The Earl of outlier and had a "small room at Tuary, where he generally passed three weeks or a month shooting, and Gilbert always attended him in hinarmine, Gorrynafeam and other places.
  He had at least one son John Gordon, Tuary, who died a young man, leaving three sons. Two of them listed in Highland regiments during the American war, and were never heard of afterwards. The youngest, Alexander, had "several cousins" who went in 1772 to North Carolina, where they became men of consider- able popularity. A daughter of one of them married a gentleman who was a merchant and a planter in South Carolina, reported to be worth an immense deal of money ; but there was no account ofany of those families for fifty years back [1785].
  The youngest son of John Gordon, Tuary, was as stated Alexander Gordon, tacksman at Dalchairn. (pp.113)
  His son Gilbert writes of him in his memoranda as follows: —"My father was well known in the county as a great Highlander of a generous, liberal disposition and extremely hospitable. He was a favourite with Lady Stafford, now Duchess Countess of Sutherland, to
  his last and to that period he retained x peculiar natural attachment for her Ladyship and the whole family. It may not be out of place to record an anecdote of my father, well known to- this day in in the highest circles as well as the lowest in the county of Sutherland. One day at Dunrobin Castle a number of county gentlemen were there paying a complimentary visit to her Ladyship shortly after coming tc- 8utherland Myfather being an old man, her Ladyship on all occasions when there orderedhim to sic beside her ladyship This done, after some passing in general conversation, my father turned to her ladyship and said : ' My Lady, were your ladyship to come to Dalcharn to- see me, I would not allow your ladyship to sit so long in my house without offering your ladyship something, as- your ladyship allowed me to sit beside you in your house, Dunrobin Castle.' The whole company were astonished, and could not refrain from laughing Her ladjship did not comprehend what my father said, being an illiterate man unable to speak English properly.
  A gentleman present, to whom my father was well-known, the late Dr Bethune of Dornoch, stated briefly to her ladyship what Dalcharn meant. Her ladyship rose quite delighted, rang the bel. A servant immediate y appeared. She desired him to bring
  directly some of the best Dunrobin Castle for Dalcharn and the rest of the company. Some of those present on this occasion told myself that for a long time afterwards when strangers called at the Castle her ladyship would H (pp.114) mention that one her tenants upbraided her of being inhospitable in Dunrobin Castle, and that she must not forget to offer strangers some refreshments. I have stated this simply and merely to prove how familiar some of the Hightenantry were in those days with their landlords, of which the above is a strong instance." Alexander Gordon married Isabella Sutherland. She was descended from the Kilpadder family, "the last branch of whom William Sutherland laid claim to the Suther- land estate when Lady Stafford was a minor, and he had an annuity to the
  last from her ladyship." He died in Edinburgh Alexander Gordon had five sons and four daughters.
  1 -John Gordon went in the summer of 1816 to Pictou, Nova Scotia, with six sons, of whom the eldest died, April, 1832, and a daughter.
  2 -Gilbert Gordon was, according to Sage, an non-commissioned officer in the 93rd Regiment. He then went to Berbice, where he made a few thousand pounds as a planter, and came home. In 1835 he was living at Woodlands, Ross-shire. He emigrated about1842 to Canada with his wife and family. He married in 1818 Margaret, daughter of John Sutherland, Commissary and Justice of the Peace for Suther- land (died 1836), son of Wm Sutherland of Lyberscross and Fkelbo, who was Sheriff- Depute of Caithness and Sutherland, and " was said to be the handsomest and most accomplished gentleman of his day in the northern county, except President Forbes of Culloden." The Lyberscross family were a collateral branch (p.115) of the Sutherland family, and also connected with the Lords of Reay and Duffus. Mrs Gordon was one of the three daughters of John Sutherland, who also had four sons. Gilbert Gordon had a large family including:
  John Sutherland Gordon of Plantation Greenfield. Demerara. He died in Edinburgh. August 19, 1880. He married, and had:
  - John Richard Colin Gordon, now residing at Berbice. He was married on July 19, 1906, at St Andrew's, Farnham, Hilda, only daughter of the Rev. Canon S omm of Berbice, and had a son born to him at Plantation Bath, Berbice, December 25, 1907. William James Sutherland Gordon , Skajit county, Washington, U.S.A.
  - Josephine Maxwell Gordon, now residing at 85 West and Avenue.
  Boston, U.S. A. she is named af er her great grandmother, Mary Maxwell, wife of John Sutherland, and daughter of Major John Macdonald of the Black Watch. Miss Gordon was one the defenders in the action raised in November, 1907. by the trustees of the will of Gordon Macdonald.
  3 -Robert Gordon is stated in the memoranda to be " with his family in Scorac et," 1835.
  (p.116) Sage says he went to America.
  4 -William Gordon got a commission in the army, went to Jamaica and returned on ha f pay to Rosemarkie
  5 -George Gordon died in Berbice. 6 Alexander Gordon was at home in 1835. aged 12.
  7 -Miss (Barbara) Gordon, married John Macdonald (died 1840 ) After his death she and her family went to Canada, and the sons went from there to Surinam. The sons were Alexander Macdonald, died 1870, and Gordon Macdonald, died in Scotland. 1859. Itis the heirs of these two that have recently been advertised for.
  8 -Christy Gordon She was lost with her husband and two or three children and many other passengers on going to America in the summer of 1808.
  9 -Ann Gordon, married John Gordon, Soluschraiggie.
  10 -Janet Gordon married Alexander Gunn.
  Uppat (Golspie)—This estate had belonged to Alexander Gordon, the bastard son of John Gordon of Embo. He died without issue and it came to the Invergordon family, via the house of Sutherland. On February 5. 1684, Adam Gordon of Dalpholly had sasine of all and haill the lands of Uppat with the mills thereof, proceeding on a disposition and charter (without redemption) granted by John Lord Strathnaver to the said Adam ("Inverness Sasine .Register" folio 253). On September 15, 1707, William Gordon of Dapholly, afterwards 1st baronet of Invergordon, had sasine of Uppat upon a precept of clare constat by the Earl of Sutherland and Lord Strath- naver as heir to Sir Adam Gordon, his father, (' Inverness Sasine Register," folio 425.)

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