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By Dr John M. Bulloch.
1st December 1909
'Aberdeen Weekly Journal'
Closely related to the Gordons in Bovaglie were the Gordons in Camlet. Mr John Gordon, Foulzie, Strathdon, drew up a pedigree of the family, and Mr Charles Brown, 56 Dee Street, Aberdeen, has lent me his aid in completing it. The family begins, so far as can be traced, with:
JOHN GORDON, CAMLET, who is given (by Mr Gordon, Foulzie) as "the son of ------ Gordon and Mary Leys." A Nathaniel Gordon, Ballater, married Margaret Leys, Tulloch, Glenmuick, 23rd July 1757.
John was twice married:
1. To Euphemia McAndrew on 17th September 1782: she died 10th November 1801, aged 71 (personal comment: this is not correct)
2. To Margaret Gordon, daughter of James Gordon, Bovaglie, and his late wife Mary Brown.
The intermarriage of Bovaglie and Camlet was remarkable, for Margaret Gordon's brother Donald and sister Nicholas married her own step-children, Elspet and Joseph respectively.
John Gordon, Camlet, had:
i. Joseph Gordon, Mill of Cosh, by the first wife. He married his step-mother's sister, Nicholas Gordon, Bovaglie, and had issue. He is mentioned on his mother's gravestone, which he helped to erect.
ii. John Gordon, Loinveg, by the first wife. He married his second cousin Mary Downie, Ardoch, and had John and James Gordon, Lonveg, who died there lately, leaving no issue.
iii. Peter Gordon, by the first wife, born 16th March 1793 (Crathie Register). He married Margaret Macpherson and had, James, John, Mary, Jean, and Margaret.
iv. Alexander Gordon, by the second wife, born 15th June 1803 (Register)
v. Elspet Gordon, by the first wife, married her stepmother's brother, Donald Gordon, Bovaglie (died 1854), and had issue, as already stated in these pages (29th september 1909)
vi. Margaret Gordon, by the first wife, born 14th February 1790. She married on 5th November 1820, George Brown, tailor, Greystone (Glenmuick Register), who was the son of George Brown, the "Sennachie" in "Deeside Tales." She had issue in Cairnandrew, Macduff.
vii. Jean Gordon, by the first wife, born 29th May 1795 (Register)
viii. Elizabeth Gordon, by the first wife, born 7th November 1797 (Register)
"John Gordon in Camlet had a niece Kate Gordon, who married ------ Fraser, and died at Dryley, or Tomnakeist, Glenmuick, about 30 or 40 years ago. She had one son, who was drowned while bathing in the Dee "one Sacred Sunday at Ballater about 1850."
J.M.Bulloch.