Gordons in Sutherland, including the Embo family

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married his cousin, a daughter of Gordon
of Innis-verry, parish of Tongue. He
married a second time and took a farm in
Strathha!ladale, where he died of para'ysis,
1824.
4 Adam Gordon. He went to America.
5 Miss Gordon. The second sister married a
man from the parish of Clyne. " After I
had performed the ceremony (says Sage}
my sister and I were guests at their
wedding, when the feasting was kept up
for two days "
Ach-nan-nighean (Ki'donan) — This was a pen-
dicle occupied by James Gordon, or Gow, a black
smith. Sage (p. 173-4) presents a vivid picture
of him and the primitive conditions under which
he worked ; —
He could everything to meet the demands and
wants of the parishioners but one, and that
was to shoe horses. He was not up to this,
merely because the hoofs of the Highland
garrons were so hard, and the greater part
of the sort of roads so soft, that the inhab-
itants never thought of getting the feet of
their horses cased in iron. When Sage's
father went to Kildonan he got big horses,
and they had to be sent to the neighbour-
ing parish of Loth. At that time coals
were not used by any smith in the country.
Gordon was a "tall, slender man, with a
countenance full of solemnity. He had a
theory of his own upon almost every subject
that came within his ken, and he was of
opinion that nothing ever could be done
or should be done, within the four corners
of the parish, without a previous consulta-
tion with him. He was always complain-
ing about the state of his health and these
complaints were usually uttered when a
more than ordinary arrear of parish work,
in the way of his calling, lay unperformed on
his hands. It came therefore to be a sort
of proverb among the people if anyone
complained of the state of his health with-
out any good grounds for it that ' he was a
delicate person like James Gordon ' "
Achness — Robert Gordon of Achness had a son
Rupert Danial who died in Clrendon parish,