GORDON, Francis ¹

  General Notes:

"441- Francis. 1760, Jan. 28, 1st Lt., 88th Ft. (Campbell's Highlanders). 1761, Jun. 16, captured at Fellinghausen (S.M., vol. 23, p. 375). 1763, h.p. (A.L., 1760-99).
Son of John, of Craig, and Anne, dau. of Patrick Reid, of Haughton. He had John, sheriff clerk depute, Abd., who d. unm. 1793, Aug. 4; Anne, m. 1796, Alex. Shirrefs, advocate, Abd., and became the mother of James Gordon Francis Shirrefs-Gordon, who succeeded to Craig; Helen, m., 1799, James Munro, cabinet maker, Abd., and d. at Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1840, Sep. Gordon d. 1788, Oct. 7, at Mill of Lumphart, Daviot (S.M., vol. 50, p. 569 ; Abd. your.). Brother of George, 500-"

from Gordons Under Arms ¹