Gordons and Smiths at Minmore, Auchorachan, and Upper Drumin in Glenlivet

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(1832-1908), land surveyor, Tullochallum,
Morfclach, afterwards of Edinburgh. He be-
longed to the Gordons in Achnarrow, Inver-
avon, who had been connected with that farm
for generations. About the end of the seven-
teenth century they moved to the farm of
Upper Clochan in the Enzie. Mr Gordon's
grandfather, John, succeeded a maternal uncle
in the farm of Tullochallum in Mortlach in
1771, where he also had the hill grazings of
Culraggie, which extended to the march with
Inchnacape at the water-shed between Glen-
livet and Tomintoul. Mr Gordon had : —
a. Alexander William Gordon, surveyor,
Inverness. He is married to Margaret,
daughter of Andrew Macdonald, Sheriff-
Clerk, Inverness, and has a son George.
b. Henry Gordon, C.E., South Africa. He
is married, and has a son George.
c. Daughter : unmarried.
(vi.) Mary : married James Brand (eldest son
of Charles Brand, railway contractor, Glas-
gow). Mr Brand, who died on January 1,
1909, aged 77, had six sons and five daughters
("Book of Robert Burns," iii., 27-8). The
sons were : —
a. Charles Joseph Brand.
b. James Gordon Brand.
c. Henry Francis Brand.
d. William Robert Joseph Brand.
e. David Guthrie Brand.
f. Clement Ignatius Brand.
(vii.) Gertrude Gordon (by third marriage).
ii. Louisa Gordon : died unmarried.
iii. Mary Anne : married at Aberdeen, October 1,
1839, to Donald Gordon Stuart, Liverpool, whom
she predeceased. She died October 8, 1855, aged
39. He was the son of William Gordon of Inch-
cape : then of Scalan and then of Back Street,
Keith, by Margaret, sister of James Stuart of
Lower Thames Street, and he adopted the name
of Gordon. (Stuart's brother Gabriel was the
great-grandfather of Sir John Knill, now Lord
Mayor of London). They had no issue.
6. Margaret Gordon : married Alexander McNab of Wester-
ton, Aberdeenshire, and had issue. A Margaret Gordon,
who married Alexander McNab, died February 8, 1844,
aged 77, and was buried in the Snow Churchyard, Old
Aberdeen.