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(I) PETER GORDON in Abergeldie, whose wife Marjory died in 1724, may have been a son of James Gordon in ABERGELDIE, and Elizabeth Gews or McDonald, but proof is lacking. He had several children:
1. John, of whom presently.
2. James, possibly the man who married Elspet Macpherson, 27.7.1719.
3. Peter.
4. Charles.
5. Janet.
(II) JOHN GORDON was sometime in Abergeldie, and later in Camlet, on the west bank of the Girnock Burn, between L0INVEG and BOVAGLIE. He married Isobel McGregor, and had issue:
1. Peter, born Monaltrie, and baptised 23.10.1720. He was possibly the man in Strathgirnock who married 5.7.1744, Rachel McAndrew. Because of a gap in the registers we are unable to give an account of his family, but Peter Gordon in Strathgirnock and Rachel McAndrew had a son Charles, baptised 30.5.1745.
2. John, born Abergeldie, and baptised 16.1.1722, of whom nothing is known.
3. Nathaniel, of whom presently.
4. Isobel, baptised 27.3.1728.
(III) NATHANIEL GORDON, born ca. 1724, was in Camlet according to Edward Gordon, a continuator of Dr J.M.Bulloch, but we suffer from a dearth of information. He was proclaimed to marry Margaret Leys, from Tullich, but married instead, Janet Forbes in Ballater, 20.3.1758. He had, probably with other issue.
1. John, of whom presently.
2. Peter, in Camlet, who married Janet, daughter of James Gordon in KHANTORE and Janet Smith, and had issue:
(1) Jean, born Camlet, bapt. 12.6.1783.
(2) John, born Bovagly, 1786.
(3) Ann, baptised 15.6.1792.
3. Francis, in Camlet, who married 12.9.1790, Margaret Gordon, and had issue:
(1) John, bapt. 1791
(2) Anna, bapt. 10.12.1793.
(3) Francis, bapt 27.11.1794.
(4) Margaret, bapt. 8.4.1804.
(5) Helen, bapt. 5.11.1806.
4. Nathaniel.
(IV) JOHN GORDON, born ca.1759 farmed at Camlet , and from his time we are on firm footing, with the registers reasonably well kept.. He married 17.2.1782, Euphemia McAndrew. They appear to have had more link with Glenmuick than with Crathie Church, and were buried in Glenmuick Kirkyard, near Bridgend. Their flat gravestone records their, names and those of sons Joaeph and John, but it is badly weathered and the dates are unreadable. John and Euphemia had issue:
1. Joseph, of whom presently.
2. Elspet, born 1785, who married Donald Gordon in BOVAGLY.
3. John, born 1767, who married Mary Downie. He farmed at LOINVEG.
4. Margaret, born 1790, who married George Brown, called Sennachie, who died 9.2.1828. One of their daughters was known as the 'Flower of Deeside'. She married Peter Frankie, a game keeper at. Altanuisach, which became a favourite mountain retreat of Queen Victoria.
5. Peter, born 1793, who Margaret McPherson, with issue:
(1) John, born 1816
(2) Mary, born 1818
(2) Jane, born 1820
6. Jean, baptised 29.5.1795.
7. Elizabeth, baptised 7.11.1797, who died young.
8. Mary, baptised 8.10.1800.
9. Alexander, baptised 15.6.1803, who married late in life and died an old man at Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire.
Euphemia McAndrew died about 1805, and John Gordon in Camlet married second ca.1807, Margaret, 1768 1860, daughter of James Gordon In KHANTORE, and Janet SmIth, with further issue:
10. James, baptised 3.8.1809, twin to Elizabeth, farmer and cattle dealer, who married 30.12.1838, Isabella Simpson, born ca.1817, with issue:
(1) Mary, born Camlet, baptised 5.7.1839.
(2) John, born 11.10.1840, and died unmarried 17.5.1860.
(3) Janet, born Camlet, baptised 1.3.1842.
(4) James, born Camlet, 3.10.1843, died in infancy.
(5) Peter, born Camlet 31.3.1845, died young.
(6) James, born Camlet, 21.6.1848.
(7) Margaret, born Camlet, 22.2.1850.
(8) Peter, born Camlet, 9.11.1851.
(9) Isabella Simpson, born Camlet, 30.5.1857.
11. Elizabeth, baptised 3.8.1809, twin to James, who married 22.12.1825, James Kennedy, agricultural labourer from Cortachy in Angus, afterwards tenant of a 6 acre croft at Camlet. They had a large familyof 6 sons and 5 daughters.