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     Charles Gordon was christened on 13 January 1798 at Bellie, Morayshire.¹ He was the son of George Gordon 5th Duke of Gordon, 8th Marquess, 2nd Earl of Norwich and Ann Thomson.¹

     Charles Gordon 1st Earl of Aboyne was the son of George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly and Anne Campbell. Charles Gordon 1st Earl of Aboyne died in March 1681.

     Charlotte Gordon was born on 20 September 1768 in Gordon Castle. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Jane Maxwell. Charlotte Gordon was christened on 23 October 1768 at Bellie.¹ She married Charles Lennox 4th Duke of Richmond, son of Lt. Gen. Lord George Henry Lennox and Louisa Kerr, on 9 September 1789. Charlotte Gordon died on 5 May 1842 in Upper Portland Street, London, at the age of 73.

     Charlotte Gordon was born in September 1724. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke of Gordon, 5th Marquess and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt.

     Charlotte Gordon was christened on 1 November 1810 at Bellie, Morayshire.^1,2 She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Jean Christie.¹ Charlotte Gordon died on 10 December 1810 in Bellie, Morayshire, and is buried in Bellie Churchyard. In the tomb where Mrs. Susan Robertson was laid in 1822.³

     Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon was born on 7 August 1825 in Eastwood, Hampshire.^1,2 She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon was christened on 4 March 1826 at Boldre, Hampshire.² She married Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E., son of Capt. Henry Dundas Beatson R.N. and Margaret Stewart, in 1853. Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon and Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. appear on the census of 1881 living at 57 Bromham Road, Bedford.¹ Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon died on 10 August 1917 at Rotherwood, Bedford, at the age of 92. The funeral took place in Bedford on Tuesday 14 August.³

     Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke of Gordon, 6th Marquess was born on 27 April 1720. He was the son of Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke of Gordon, 5th Marquess and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt. Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke of Gordon, 6th Marquess married Lady Katharine Gordon, daughter of William Gordon 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, on 3 September 1741 in Dunkeld, Perthshire. Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke of Gordon, 6th Marquess died on 5 August 1752 in Breteuil, Nr. Amiens, France, at the age of 32.¹

     Elizabeth Gordon was born circa 1716. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke of Gordon, 5th Marquess and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt. Elizabeth Gordon died in 1769.

     Of Belvidere, South Carolina.² Elizabeth Gordon married Joshua Hett Smith, son of Judge William Smith and Mary Hett, in October 1770.³ Elizabeth Gordon died on 1 January 1784.²

     Elizabeth Gordon was the daughter of Sir Adam Gordon of Gordon.¹ Elizabeth Gordon married Alexander Seton 1st Lord Gordon. Elizabeth Gordon died on 16 March 1438.¹

     Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon was born on 10 October 1871 in Bright, Victoria.³ She was the daughter of George Tindal Gordon and Elizabeth Knevitt.¹ Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon married Arthur Walker, son of Theodore Walker and Anne Marshall, on 11 December 1899 in "Tumanaka", Church Street, Richmond, Victoria.^3,4 Elizabeth Georgiana Gordon died on 5 March 1941 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 69.³

     Emma May Lewis Gordon was born on 8 October 1839 in Woolwich.¹ She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Emma May Lewis Gordon was christened on 20 November 1839 at St. Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kent.² She married Henry Trotter, son of Assistant Commissary-General Alexander Trotter and Jacqueline Elizabeth Otter, on 2 October 1883 in St. John The Evangelist, Hyde Park, the service was conducted by the Rev. H.R. Wadmore, Vicar of All Souls', South Hampstead, assisted by the Rev. Cecil Moore.^3,4 Emma May Lewis Gordon died on 11 February 1893 at the age of 53 s.n.p.³

     Frances Isabella Ker Gordon was the daughter of Vice Admiral William Gordon and Frances Ingram. Frances Isabella Ker Gordon died on 2 September 1831 unmarried.

     George Gordon was baptised on 27 January 1752. He was the son of Cosmo George Gordon 3rd Duke of Gordon, 6th Marquess and Lady Katharine Gordon. George Gordon died on 1 November 1793 at the age of 41 unmarried.

     George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly was the son of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntley, Earl of Moray and Elizabeth Keith. George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly married Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, Duke of Châtellerault and Margaret Douglas, before 24 March 1558.¹ George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly died on 20 October 1576.

     George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntley, Earl of Moray was born in 1513.¹ He was the son of John Gordon Master of Huntly and Margaret Stewart. George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntley, Earl of Moray married Elizabeth Keith, daughter of Robert Keith Master of Marischall and Elizabeth Douglas, circa 27 March 1530. George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntley, Earl of Moray died on 28 October 1562 in Corrichie.¹

     George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley was the son of Alexander Seton, Master of Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly and Elizabeth Chrichton.^1,2 George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley married firstly Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of James Dunbar 4th Earl of Moray, circa 20 May 1455 the marriage was dissolved before March 1459/60.² George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley married secondly Princess Annabella Stewart, daughter of James Stewart, King James I of Scotland and Lady Joan Beaufort, before 10 March 1459.³ George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley and Princess Annabella Stewart were divorced on 24 July 1471. George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley died circa 8 June 1501 in Stirling and was buried at Cambuskenneth.⁴

     George Gordon was christened on 30 July 1766 at Bellie, Morayshire.^1,2 He was the son of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Bathia Largue.¹

     George Gordon 1st Duke of Gordon, 4th Marquess of Huntly was born circa 1649. He was the son of Lewis Gordon 3rd Marquess of Huntly and Mary Grant. George Gordon 1st Duke of Gordon, 4th Marquess of Huntly married Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Norwich, in October 1676. George Gordon 1st Duke of Gordon, 4th Marquess of Huntly died on 7 December 1716 in Leith.

     George Gordon 1st Marquess of Huntly was born in 1562. He was the son of George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly and Anne Hamilton. George Gordon 1st Marquess of Huntly married Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox and Catherine de Balsac, in 1588. George Gordon 1st Marquess of Huntly died on 13 June 1636.

     George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly was born after 1588. He was the son of George Gordon 1st Marquess of Huntly and Henrietta Stewart. George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly married Anne Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell 7th Earl of Argyle, circa February 1607. George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly died on 22 March 1649.

     George Gordon 5th Duke of Gordon, 8th Marquess, 2nd Earl of Norwich was born on 2 February 1770 in Edinburgh. He was the son of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Jane Maxwell. George Gordon 5th Duke of Gordon, 8th Marquess, 2nd Earl of Norwich married Elizabeth Brodie, daughter of Alexander Brodie of Arnhall, on 11 December 1813.² George Gordon 5th Duke of Gordon, 8th Marquess, 2nd Earl of Norwich died on 28 May 1836 in Belgrave Square, London, at the age of 66 upon his death the Dukedom and the Earldom became extinct but the Marquessate passed to his kinsman, George, 5th Earl of Aboyne.

     George Gordon Master of Huntly was the son of George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly and Anne Campbell. George Gordon Master of Huntly died on 2 July 1645 in Alford dsp unmarried.

     George Morris Seton Gordon was born on 5 October 1874 in South Melbourne, Victoria.² He was the son of George Tindal Gordon and Elizabeth Knevitt.¹ George Morris Seton Gordon married Lorna Nugent O'Connor in 1909 in Western Australia.³ George Morris Seton Gordon and Lorna Nugent O'Connor were living at 79 Grey Street, Balaclava, Victoria, in 1919 he was an accountant. George Morris Seton Gordon died on 19 July 1953 in 27 Kingston Street, East Malvern, Victoria, at the age of 78.⁴

     George Tindal Gordon was born on 11 January 1832 in Eastbourne, Sussex.¹ He was the son of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. George Tindal Gordon was baptised on 4 March 1832 in the Parish of St. Mary, Eastbourne, Sussex.¹ GORDON entered the Royal Navy on 12 September 1845 as a Volunteer 1st class and was posted to the Lark; on 10 April 1847 to the Queen and on 24 May of that year as Midshipman on the Spartan; on 19 June 1849 to the Impregnable and on 30 July to the Daedalus which sailed with supplies for the discovery ship Plover, then in the Bering Straits, and Gordon was transferred to the latter vessel as captain's mate. The ship had already been in arctic waters for several years awaiting either news of, or the return of Franklin and his men from their expedition. On 20 August 1852 he was posted to the Swift and on 9 November 1854 he was promoted to Lieutenant. He was First Lieutenant on H.M.S. Fawn which docked in Sydney on 1 July 1860. He left the Navy in 1861.² He married Elizabeth Knevitt, daughter of Morris Thomas Knevitt and Mary Anne Kendal, on 8 June 1867 in Chalmers Manse, East Melbourne, Australia, the service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Cairns.^3,4 On 22 February 1907 The Melbourne Argus reported that Mr. George Tindal Gordon of the Mines Department met with a painful accident on Wednesday [22 February] evening about 5 o'clock, when he was walking along the footpath at the corner of Spring and Flinders streets, when he slipped on the kerbstone and fell heavily. He was taken to the Alfred Hospital and examined by Dr. Langley, who found that the patient suffered from a fractured thigh.⁵ George Tindal Gordon died on 9 April 1911 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 79 of Bright's disease.¹

     Georgiana Huntly Gordon was born on 15 March 1804 in London. She was the daughter of George Gordon 5th Duke of Gordon, 8th Marquess, 2nd Earl of Norwich and Jane Graham. The illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, later 5th Duke of Gordon, and Jane Graham, she spent much of her childhood in London where she was born. Educated first at a convent school kept by refugees from the French revolution, presided over by Madame la Comtesse d'Escouailles, Georgiana became fluent in French and studied other languages, including Hebrew and Latin. She was only eleven years old when she began taking lessons in painting from John Varley, the landscape painter, who was by all accounts a brilliant teacher. She studied at the Royal Academy and visited Gordon Castle each summer. A miniature portrait of her grandfather, the 4th Duke of Gordon, won her a silver medal from the Society for Promotion of Arts in 1821 when she was only seventeen. The following year she won a silver palette award for the most promising young portrait painter in Britain. Georgiana also had considerable musical ability as both singer and pianist. From age seventeen till twenty-three she lived at Gordon Castle with her grandfather till he died in 1827. While living in Edinburgh she earned her own living.

On 15 September 1830, at Gordon Castle, she married Andrew Murison McCrae and they became the parents of nine children. She followed her husband from Edinburgh to London and then to Port Phillip in Australia where he was successively a lawyer, squatter and goldfields magistrate. Andrew McCrae was on friendly terms with members of the Bunurong tribe of Aborigines, with whom he had constant dealings on his property on the Mornington peninsula. Georgiana was also a friend to them all, tended to their wants and drew their portraits with the same understanding, compassion and respect she had earlier shown in the representation of Scottish aristocrats.

The character of Andrew Murison McCrae has tended to be obscured by the attention which historians, art critics and various authors have devoted to his wife. In fact Andrew has been consistently vilified as Georgiana has been exalted. The bare facts of his life in Australia are that he went into practice in 1839 as a solicitor in Melbourne with James Montgomery, the Clerk of the Peace, as a partner. However, by the end of 1842, the economy had collapsed and the partnership, faced with clients who could not honour their debts, was dissolved. In 1844 Andrew decided to take up a cattle run at the foot of Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula and the family left Melbourne in March 1845. Once again the enterprise was unsuccessful financially, and the McCraes returned to Melbourne in October 1851, the 12,000-acre station being sold for 1000 pounds. With the advent of the gold rush in Victoria, Andrew obtained official positions as Stipendary and Police Magistrate in various centres, including Alberton, Gippsland (1851-1854), Barrow's Inn, Hepburn, Crewick and finally for seven years at Kilmore. Georgiana and the children did not follow him to the goldfields but remained in Melbourne. Their marriage was not a consistantly happy one and in the end they were living virtually separate lives. For many years it was clear that Andrew harboured a great admiration and affection for his wife but there is scant evidence of Georgiana's reciprocating these feelings at the same level. In 1867 Andrew left Australia alone to spend seven years in Britain. On 24 July 1874, soon after his return, he died at Hawthorn in Victoria. Georgiana survived him by some sixteen years, also dying at Hawthorn on 24 May 1890. They are buried in adjacent graves in Boroondara Cemetary, Kew, near the gate in the wall adjoining Park Hill Road.

Source: Leo van de Pas.¹ Georgiana Huntly Gordon married Andrew Murison McCrae, son of William Gordon McCrae and Margaret Murison, on 25 September 1830 in Parish Church of Bellie, Fochabers.² Georgiana Huntly Gordon died on 24 May 1890 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 86.¹

     Georgina Gordon was born on 18 July 1781 in Gordon Castle. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Jane Maxwell. Georgina Gordon married John Russell 6th Duke of Bedford on 23 June 1803 in Whitehall. Georgina Gordon died on 24 February 1853 at the age of 71.

     Henrietta Gordon was born circa 1708. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke of Gordon, 5th Marquess and Lady Henrietta Mordaunt. Henrietta Gordon died on 14 February 1789 in Edinburgh unmarried.

     Henry Gordon married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Daniel Smith and Amanda Shell.¹

     Henry Gordon was born in 1634. He was the son of George Gordon 2nd Marquess of Huntly and Anne Campbell. Henry Gordon died in 1667.