Person:David Gairdner (1)

David Cowan GAIRDNER (17 ?mar 1836 Kilmarnock, Ayrs.-12mar1919 Prestwick, Ayrs.) (mundia). David marr Louisa Maria BORDIER (1849 Reigate, Surrey-?1925 Gt Missenden, Herts) (mundia). David Cowan GAIRDNER (b. 17 ?apr 1836-?12mar ?1918) marr (21apr1870 Brighton, Sussex) Louisa Maria Bordier (b. 7aug1849) (Tennant website).

Will (11 pages) of David Cowan Gairdner, agent of Union Bank of Scotland, Kilmarnock, d. 12mar1919 at Linksview, Prestwick (scotlandspeople). Will of David Cowan Gairdner (d. 12mar1919) of Linksview Prestwick; Arthur Charles Dalrymple Gairdner and William Cecil Gairdner mentioned (National Probate Calendar). Will of Louisa Maria Gairdner (d. 15jul1925) of Peterley Manor Gt Missenden; probate to Ethel Clara Swenerton widow and Arthur Charles Dalrymple Gairdner, 2905 gbp (National Probate Calendar).

Louisa was dau of Jules Bordier and Clara Gairdner (dau of William Gairdner (1793-1867) and Cecilia Bordier) (Tennant website). David Cowan Gairdner marr Louisa Maria Bordier 2nd qtr 1870 at Steyning, Sussex (freebmd). Louisa Maria Bordier was b. 3rd qtr 1849, Reigate (bmd). Louisa M. Gairdner (1850) d. 3rd qtr 1925 at Amersham, Bucks (included Gt Missenden) (bmd). Louisa was dau of Julius Bordier and Clara Gairdner (1823 London, dau of William Gairdner and Cecilia) (mundia).

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 grnfather, 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 1881 David C. Gairdner (1837 Kilmarnock, Ayrs., banker), wife Louisa Maria (1850 England), son Arthur C.D. (1873 Kilmarnock), were at Kilmarnock (census).

Gairdner family: http://tedtennant.wordpress.com/genealogy/