Person:James Gordon (78)

James Gordon was b. abt 8aug1772 at Edinburgh (Latter day saints). James Farquhar GORDON, eldest son of John Gordon of Balmoor, WS, d. 23dec1843; married (1) 13nov1797 Lilias, daughter of Charles Hunter of Burnside, Forfarshire; (2) 1805 Margaret, only child of Robert Haldane of Airthrie, Stirlingshire (Society of Writers to Signet). James Farquhar Gordon, WS, d. 23dec1843 at Avranches, Normandy (Glasgow Herald).

From “Memoirs of the lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey”: Robert Haldane married apr1786 Katherine Cochrane Oswald (aged 18); they had one child, a daughter, b. apr1787 (p. 47). Margaret HALDANE, daughter of Robert, married James Farquhar GORDON 22dec1804, Edinburgh (IGI). Margaret Haldane, only daughter of Robert Haldane, marr J.F. Gordon, 24dec1804 at Edinburgh (Caledonian Mercury). Margaret Haldane (d. 29sep1849) married James Farquhar Gordon (d. jan1844) in 1805 and had 3 sons and 6 daughters (Burke's landed gentry, 2001). Margaret Oswald Haldane (24jul1787-29sep1849) married in 1804 James Farquhar Gordon (8aug1772-jan1844) (carmichael.world).

Margaret and James had children: John (17oct1810-27dec1848 Moolton, India), Camilla (1812-95), Robert (1816-43), James (1818-97, married Thomazine Crauford), Isabella (1820-94, married 1875 Alexander Oswald Mitchell), Georgina (1821, married H.J. Walker) (carmichael.world). The children were b. at Edinburgh; James was probably James Farquhar Gordon (IGI). Major John Gordon (HM 60th Rifles, son of late James F. Gordon, grandson of late Robert Haldane of Auchingray) was killed at siege of Mooltan 27mar1849 (Caledonian Mercury). Camilla Haldane Gordon (d. 1895, reg. Edinburgh, National Probate Calendar) lodged at London in 1881 (census). Will of Camilla Haldane Gordon (d. 13jan1895, Mentone, France), daughter of late James Farquhar Gordon, WS, Edinburgh (scotlandspeople). Margaret Haldane Gordon, who survived her husband nearly 6 yrs, had 3 sons and 6 daughters, among them, Major John and Robt Haldane (both d. unm in her lifetime), Rev James Gordon (marr Thomazine Crawford), 3 daughters d. in infancy, 3 survived (Memoirs of the lives of Robert Haldane, p. 604). James Gordon married Miss Crawford but had been in army (Glasgow Herald, 1897); it is questionable whether he was a reverend.

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
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