William Gordon (abt. 1738 - 1795)

Ancestors

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Biography

William was born about 1738. He was the second son of Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet of Gordonstoun and Agnes Maxwell. Having succeeded his elder brother Robert to the Baronetcy, as William was also unmarried and his younger brothers having predeceased him, on his death in 1795 the Baronetcy of Gordonstoun became extinct. There were no known legitimate male descendants of any of the first three Baronets only several natural (otherwise illegitimate) sons who could not succeed.

Sources

• *The family tree of the Dukes, Earls, Lairds and Chiefs of Clan Sutherland 1100-2015 by John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland
• The Peerage of Scotland by Sir Robert Douglas (1764) 1st edition within which are found:(Sutherland, Lord Duffus pages 194-196 and Sutherland Earl of Sutherland pages 660-667)
• The History of the Earldom of Sutherland by Sir Robert Gordon (written 1650) who was younger son of Alexander Gordon 12th Earl of Sutherland and created 1st Baronet of Gordonstoun
• The Sutherland Books Volumes 1-3 by Sir William Fraser (1892) [presented in 1894 by the Duke of Sutherland to Queen Victoria]
• A short history of Clan Sutherland , the families of Sutherland, Forse and Duffus 12th -19th centuries by Daniel J J Sutherland, Historian Emeritus of Clan Sutherland. http://www.duffus.com/ashort.htm
• A Fighting Clan: Officers in Clan Sutherland 1250-1850 by Malcolm Sutherland, Historian Emeritus of Clan Sutherland.
• The Scots Peerage by Sir James Balfour-Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms of Scotland
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain ... by Bernard Burke
• Private papers in the collection of James B Sutherland, Historian of Clan Sutherland
• Private papers in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland
• Memorabilia Domestica by the Rev. Donald Sage, Minister of Resolis, Ross-shire (step-son of Jean Sutherland of Midgarty)
• Caithness Family History by John Henderson first published in 1882
• "Notes of My Family History" written by the Rev. George Sutherland in 1903, revised 1909