Katharine (Gordon) Gordon of Gight (1764 - 1811)

Born 22 Apr 1764 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland.

Ancestors

Wife of John Byron — married 13 May 1785 in Bath, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1811 at age 47 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Biography

Katharine (Gordon) Gordon of Gight was born in Scotland.

Katharine (Gordon) Gordon of Gight is a member of Clan Gordon.

Descendant of Macbeth Brodie of Brodie, circa 1210.

Katharine (Gordon) Gordon of Gight is Notable.

Katharine Gordon was born in 1764 at Banff, Banffshire, Scotland and was baptised on the 22nd of April. She was the only surviving child and heir of George Gordon of Gight and Catherine Innes^[1]

Catharine Gordon, 13th of Gight, married the widowed John Byron, a descendant of the Byron's of Newstead Abbey, at St Michael's Anglican Church in Bath, Somerset, England on the 13th of May 1785.^[2] The witnesses at their wedding were Alexander and Sarah Hay.
Their only child George, was born in 1788.

Catharine Byron was living, at the then, partly ruinous, Newstead Abbey, near Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, England, when she passed away on the 1st of August 1811, at the age of 46 years, and was buried nearby, in the Byron Family Vault at St Mary Magdeline Churchyard, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, on the 9th of August 1811.^[3]

Research Notes

• The transcription from FamilySearch has an error, which needs addressing, as their marriage document clearly says "thirteenth".

Sources

1. ↑ Citing this Record "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBSD-TTT : 12 February 2020), Katharine Gordon, 1764.
2. ↑ Citing this Record "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N281-LWL : 13 March 2020), Cathn. Gordon in entry for John Byron, 1785.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29R-YPLY : 11 July 2016), Catherine Gordon Byron, ; Burial, Hucknall, Ashfield District, Nottinghamshire, England, St Mary Magdalene Churchyard; citing record ID 150447894, Find a Grave,

See Also:

• Find A Grave, database and images : accessed 27 November 2018), memorial page for Catharine Gordon Byron (1764–1 Aug 1811), Find A Grave: Memorial #150447894, citing St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Hucknall, Ashfield District, Nottinghamshire, England ; Maintained by Todd Whitesides (contributor 47553735) .
• Wikidata: Item Q63645174
• The Complete Peerage, 2nd edn, vol. 2, p. 456-57
• Byron at Newstead Abbey
• House of Gordon, Catherine Gordon and Lord Byron life story. pgs. 122-146.
• Newstead Abbey, Wikpedia Accessed 19 Sept 2019.
• Gight Castle, Castles Fort Battles website
• Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch Author: John Davidson 1816-1892. Publisher: Edinburgh D. Douglas 1878. Page: 600.
• Catherine Gordon Byron, Romantic Poets
• Gordon Family Tree
• Gight, Wikipedia. Accessed 19 Sept 2019.

Acknowledgements

• The Blogging Byronian, Marriage document.
• Article by Sarah Murden. Newstead Abbey photo.
• Gordon Stuart Byron Lineage, Cormael