Robert (Gordon) Gordon of Gordonstoun 3rd Bt (bef. 1647 - 1704)

Born before 7 Mar 1647 in Drainie, Elginshire, Scotland

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Died 5 Sep 1704 after age 57 in Scotland

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Biography

Robert Gordon was the third generation of his family to hold the Baronetcy of Gordonstoun, the name of the estate owned by his family. He was the eldest son of Sir Ludovick Gordon, 2nd Baronet of Gordonstoun and his first wife Elizabeth Farquhar.

m. (1) 23 February 1676, to Margaret Forbes, widow of Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus, and daughter of William Forbes, 12th Lord Forbes. She died in April 1677, leaving a daughter and (2) Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir William Dunbar, bart., of Hempriggs, Wick; they had a family of three sons and four daughters.

"On the death of Sir Ludovick [Gordon] in 1688, he was succeeded by his eldest son, 3. Sir Robert Gordon, third Baronet."

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 Sutherland Books Volumes 1-3 by Sir William Fraser (1892) [presented in 1894 by the Duke of Sutherland to Queen Victoria]

• Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage 1935 edition

• Burke’s Landed Gentry

• Private papers referring to various cadet branches of the Sutherland family in the collection of John M Sutherland-Fisher, Genealogist of Clan Sutherland

• 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.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Gordon,_3rd_Baronet

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYMB-VV9

• "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYMB-VV9 : 11 February 2020), Robert Sir Gordon in entry for David Scott, 1716.

• digital.nls.uk/history-of-scottish-families ("History of the Family of Seton")