GORDON, George 2nd of Esslemont and 13th of Hallhead, Jacobite 1745 ^{1 2}

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George married Anne BOWDLER 23 January 1728(1729).^{1 2} (Anne BOWDLER was born about 1700.)

  Marriage Notes:

"XIII. George Gordon of Hallhead and Esslemont.

He married, January 23, 1728-9, Amy (Ann, see below), daughter of Thomas Bowdler (the Expergiscator of Shakespeare). George Gordon was out in the ' '45,' and his name appears in the list of those who were specially excepted from the general amnesty, which was granted by the Act of Parliament some years after the rebellion. His estates appear to have been granted by the Duke of Cumberland, by a factory dated 1746, to James Chalmers, printer, Aberdeen, probably a friend of the family, as the lands appear in possession of George Gordon's son, Robert, in due course. The plunder of Mrs. Gordon's house in Aberdeen by the Duke of Cumberland and General Hawley in 1746, is fully detailed in Jacobite memoirs, where the lady's statement is printed at length. (Mrs. Gordon, née Ann Bowdler, was an Englishwoman.) They had issue one son, who succeeded."

from The Thanage of Fermartyn




" George Gordon, 2nd of Esslemont and 13th of Hallhead was the son of Robert Gordon, 1st of Esslemont and 12th of Hallhead and Isabella Byres. He married Anne Bowdler, daughter of Thomas Bowdler, on 23 January 1728/29. He died in 1758.

In 1745 a Jacobite and Secretary to 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, and hence excepted from the later amnesty granted by Parliament. Between 23 February 1746 and 8 March 1746 his house in the Guestrow, Aberdeen, was occupied and pillaged during his absence by government troops en route to Culloden. On 26 July 1746 the family estates were apparently granted to James Chalmers, printer in Aberdeen (probably a friend of the family), as thereafter the lands appear again in the name of his son, Robert. He escaped to Bordeaux."

from thepeerage.com ^{1 2}