Person:Charles Gairdner (1)

Charles Dalrymple GAIRDNER was b. 11Dec1794, chr 20dec1794 at Ayr, Ayrs., son of Robert Gairdner and Macrae Smith (familysearch). Charles Dalrymple Gairdner (11dec1794 Mt Charles, Ayr, Ayrshire-1867) marr Agnes COWAN (30nov1801 Ayr, Ayrs.-28nov1885) (mundia). Charles Dalrymple Gairdner (11dec1794-10may1867) marr Agnes Cuthbert COWAN (30nov1801-28nov1885) (Tennant website). Charles Dalrymple Gairdner d. 10may1867 age 72 at Auchans (Glasgow Herald).

Agnes Cowan was b. 30Nov1801, chr 6dec1801 at Ayr, Ayrs., dau of William Cowan and Agnes Cuthbert (familysearch). Scottish archives have trust disposition (13 pages) of Charles Dalrymple Gairdner, banker of „Auchaus“ Hse, nr Dundonald; in 1892 an eik was reg of the same (d. 10may1867 at Auchans Hse, nr Dundonald) (scotlandspeople). Will (7 pages) of Agnes Gairdner or Cowan, widow of Charles Dalrymple Gairdner (banker, Kilmarnock), d. 28nov1885 Airlie Ayrs. (scotlandspeople).

Agnes Cowan marr C.D. Gairdner, son of late Capt Gairdner of Mountcharles (commissioner to Earl of Eglinton); Agnes was dau of William Cowan of Corsehill (of Ayr Bank, Provost of Ayr) and Agnes Cuthbert, who marr in 1795 (Paterson's Ayrshire, vol 1, part 2, p. 325). Mount Charles was owned by the Dalrymple family; in 1787 it was sold to Capt Robert Gairdner (History of Ayr, 1989, google books). Charles Dalrymple Gairdner had a grand uncle, Rev. Dalrymple, minister of Ayr, who was mentioned in the poem „Kirk's Alarm“ by his friend Robert Burns (Glasgow Herald, report of death of Charles Gairdner, 1899).

In 1950 Arthur C.D. Gairdner (b. 1872) d. at Storrington, Sussex; he had been gen manager of Union Bank of Scotland 1910-19 and chairman of British Oversea Bank 1919-38; his grandfather, Charles Dalrymple Gairdner, became in 1821 agent of Hunters and Co., Kilmarnock, a bank later absorbed by Union Bank; his father, David Cowan Gairdner, was agent of Union Bank at Kilmarnock (Glasgow Herald, google news).

In 1851 Charles D. Gairdner (1795 Ayr, banker and commissioner to Earl of „Erlington“), wife Agnes (1802 Ayr), son David C. (1837 Kilmarnock), were at Auchans Hse, Dundonald, Ayrs. (census). In 1851 C.D. Gairdner, commissioner for Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Auchans Hse, Dundonald (Ayrshire Directory).

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