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MS 3600 - Gordon of Cluny papers

1 - Gordon of Cluny: estate papers

2 - Gordon of Cluny: personal correspondence, 1776 - 1940s

3 - Gordon of Cluny: papers relating to personal finance of family members, 1732 - 1946

4 - Gordon of Cluny: legal papers, 1767 - 2003

5 - Gordon of Cluny: Cluny Trust papers, 1859 - 1940

6 - Gordon of Cluny: political papers, 1762 - 1951

7 - Gordon of Cluny: military papers, 1854 - 1916

8 - Gordon of Cluny: papers relating to livestock and breeding, 1871 - 1951

9 - Gordon of Cluny: papers relating to charitable activities, 1822 - 1927

10 - Gordon of Cluny: papers relating to education, 1879 - 1939

11 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers, 1733 - 2008

1 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Contract of marriage between John Gordon, late secretary to the Dowager Duchess of Gordon, and Mary Lindsay, daughter of the late William Lindsay in Damhead of Traquair, 27 August 1733

2 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Contract of marriage between Alexander Godsman, feuar in Dallachy, and Jean Gordon, sister german to John Gordon, factor to the Duke of Gordon, 9 December 1735

3 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Note of 'Family Settlements not upon Record', including 'Cluny's contract of marriage' on back of letter wrapper with two seals (heraldic device of Gordon of Cluny), n.d. [c.1760]

4 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Two letter wrappers with seals, used to make notes about family settlements, n.d. [c.1760]

5 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Copy extract from the register of St. John's Chapel, Inverness, for 1820, for the baptism of Cosmo Spencer Gordon, son of Alexander and Eleanor Gordon in Culloden, 24 December 1822

6 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Extract from the session registers of the birth and baptism dates in 1824 of Eleanor Joanna Gordon, daughter of Alexander and Eleanor Gordon, 29 April 1824

7 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Extract from Terregles session registers of the birth and baptism dates in 1825 of Maria Frederica Gordon, daughter of Alexander and Eleanor Gordon, 18 January 1843

8 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Certificate of baptism of James Edward Gordon, son of Alexander and Eleanor Gordon, 31 March 1828

9 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Letter to John Fleming, Cluny Castle, from McHardy & Robison re baptism certificates for William and Mary Low and for Isobel Donald or Scott, 30 September 1833

10 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photostat of typed signed copy of marriage certificate, George Augustus Gordon to Martha Maria Selden in Melbourne, signed 4 July 1974, 31 May 1853

11 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed transcription of two table stones in Bellie churchyard, Fochabers, to Mary Lindsay, wife of John Gordon, d.1775, and to John Gordon of Cluny, d.1769, with note on inscriptions

12 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of marriage certificate of John Gordon of Cluny and Clara Margaret Jean White at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, 8 January 1862

13 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entry from the Fraserburgh Advertiser, 17 January 1862, concerning the marriage of John Gordon of Cluny and Clara White

14 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Letter to John Gordon of Cluny from John G. Leslie, Sheriff Clerk's Office, Aberdeen, regarding his discovery of the graves of John Gordon (d.1769) and Mary Lindsay (d. 1771) in Bellie churchyard, Fochabers, with detailed remarks on John Gordon's history, 28 August 1862

15 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Notes written on notepaper from Eckington Rectory, Chesterfield, on the family of Trotter of Mortonhall, addressed to one of the children of Alexander and Eleanor Gordon by a female relative, n.d.

16 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Letter to 'Cousin Dobie' from Mary Ann Howell, Annan, regarding her own history (her mother was a grand-daughter of Alexander Gordon in Tobago), 4 October 1895

17 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Colour photograph of three-bay, two floor granite Victorian house, 'Glasterim', Bellie, Moray, n.d.

18 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Five colour photographs of table grave in Bellie churchyard, burial place of John Gordon and Mary Lindsay, his wife, n.d.

19 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Certified copy of an entry of marriage for John Gordon of Cluny and Clara Margaret Jean White, Isle of Wight, 8 January 1862, 1 October 2007

20 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Bundle of notes by James Irvine Fortescue of Kingcausie on Arthur Howell's publication, 'The Gordons of Cluny', with covering note by Robin Linzee-Gordon on Arthur Howell's later years, n.d. [2007]

21 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Five photocopies of the Gordon family tree compiled by Arthur Howell, n.d. [c.1992]

22 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of the family tree of the Clarks and Barbours, compiled by Grace (Clunas) Heathcock, 1979, n.d. (c.1992)

23 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Newspaper cutting on the Gordon family, probably written around the time of the death of the 5th Duke of Gordon, n.d. [1835]

24 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed transcript of a handwritten note (absent) concerning Colonel John Gordon of Cluny and the family of his sister Charlotte, n.d.

25 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of manuscript history of the Gordons of Cluny, by Edward Gordon, Aberdeen, n.d. (c.1940)

26 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of manuscript notes on the building of Cluny Castle, by Edward Gordon, Aberdeen, n.d. (c.1940)

27 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed notes on search for 'the origins of John Gordon 11th of Cluny', n.d.

28 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of printed 'Ane list of Pollable Persons within the Pariochin of Cluinie' from a 'List of Pollable Persons within the shire of Aberdeen', 1696, Vol.I.

29 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopied pages of a book or long article on Fraserburgh, n.d. (after 1980)

30 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Short typed article on Baron Cosmo Gordon of Cluny and his association with Buckie. No author, n.d.

31 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entry for Cluny parish in the Old Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol.X, published 1794, n.d.

32 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entries from family Bible, n.d.

33 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed article: 'The Story of Margaret McKay or Clark of Winewell, near Auldearn, Nairnshire (My great great grandmother)', by G.M. Heathcock, n.d. c.1980

34 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Manuscript and typed notes on Helen Brands Clark, by Gordon Thomson, n.d.

35 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed copy of the entry for Cluny Parish in the New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1842, n.d.

36 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of the entry for Cluny Parish in the New Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. XII, published 1845, n.d.

37 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entry for the parish of Cluny in 'Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff', Vol. II, by Joseph Robertson, 1847, n.d.

38 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed copy of article from the Banffshire Journal: 'Death of the Richest Commoner in Scotland' (Colonel John Gordon of Cluny, in 1858) along with an indistinct photocopy of part of the same article, n.d.

39 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of manuscript family tree of the branch of the Gordon family in Australia, descended from George Augustus Gordon and Martha Maria Selden (married 1853)

40 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of section on the parish of Cluny in 'A New History of Aberdeenshire' by Alexander Smith, 1875, n.d.

41 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of section on Cluny parish in 'Epitaphs and Inscriptions', vol. II, by Andrew Jervise, 1879, n.d.

42 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of 'The book of the Chronicles of Keith', by the Rev. J.F.S. Gordon, 1880 (pp.186 - 191), concerning the Gordons of Pitlurg and the Gordons and Stuarts of Birkenburn, n.d.

43 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Note by unknown, Jermyns, Romsey, concerning burial of Alexander Q. Gordon and Eleanor Gordon in Kensal Green Cemetery, with typed transcription and note by Robert Linzee Gordon on its accuracy, 11 May 1885, n.d.

44 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed and manuscript notes on the Cundey family, gamekeepers at Cluny, mostly concerning a clock given to Enzor Cundey by Mrs. Gordon in 1878, along with a manuscript family tree of the Cundeys and a letter from Flossie Robertson, a descendant of the Cundeys, 1990

45 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of section on Cluny Castle from 'Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland', Vol.II, David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross, 1887

46 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Manuscript extract from 'Epitaphs and Inscriptions from Burial Grounds and Old Buildings in the North East of Scotland', by Andrew Jervise, 1879, on 'The Family of Gordons of Cluny' (with typed transcription and note regarding its origins by Robert Linzee Gordon), n.d. [c.1990]

47 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of 'Historic South Edinburgh', Vol.II, by Charles J. Smith (c.1975?), concerning the Hermitage at Braid (built by Charles Gordon, III of Cluny), n.d.

48 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed paper: 'Place Names of the Parish of Cluny', no author, n.d.

49 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed copy of poem entitled 'The Grand Tug o' War, 1910', by G. Milne Mitchell, concerning a match at Midmar between the Duffs and the Gordons, n.d.

50 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entry for Cluny parish from the 'Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae', Vol.VI, by Hew Scott, 1926, n.d.

51 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed extract from 'The Earldom of Mar', by W. Douglas Simpson, 1949, n.d.

52 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Typed copy of article from the Turriff and District Advertiser, 9 October, 1956: 'This was Cluny Castle in Days Gone By', by Emilie Gordon Gustave, daughter of a butler at Cluny, 1956

53 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of 'Silences that Speak' (apparently a publication concerning epitaphs at St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh), concerning Joanna Gordon, Countess of Stair (died 1847), n.d.

54 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of article in The Leopard Magazine: 'Lost Places: more vanished mansions of the North East' (September 1979), including Pitlurg House, Ellon, n.d.

55 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of 'The Jacobite Cess Roll for the County of Aberdeen in 1715', by A. & H. Tayler, giving details of Pitlurg, n.d.

56 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of Pitlurg entry from 'Place-Names of Aberdeenshire' by William Alexander, n.d.

57 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of part of Ordnance Survey map (1": 1 mile), probably 2nd edition, covering Ellon area, n.d.

58 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Bundle of rough manuscript notes of details of Charles Gordon's death (1857); John Gordon and Emily Pringle's marriage (1865); Colonel John Gordon's death (1858); Susan Gordon's death (1856); the 1851 census of Cluny Castle with notes on 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891.

59 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of entry for Cluny parish in 1851 census, with typed copy of extracts for Cluny Castle in 1851, 1861 and 1871. n.d.

60 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Manuscript copy of inscriptions in the Gordon Mausoleum, St. Cuthbert's churchyard, Edinburgh, n.d.

61 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Photocopy of article on land ownership in Scotland, n.d.

62 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Notes made by Arthur Howell on some of the collection, including the Tobago papers and papers relating to Dr. John Taylor, 1990s

63 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: Colour photograph of Cluny Mews, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London SW5, n.d. [c.1980]

64 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: volume entitled 'The Cluny Gordons', or 'The Gordons of Cluny', by J. Arthur Howell, 1995

65 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: volume concerning the history of Gordon family from early times to c.1814, 1995

66 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: volume entitled 'A History of the Family of Linzee Gordon', 2008

67 - Gordon of Cluny: genealogical papers: volume entitled 'Emily Gordon Cathcart: Chapter One: Mrs John Gordon of Cluny', 2008

12 - Gordon of Cluny: pictures and printed material, 1841 - 1964

13 - Gordon of Cluny: papers of D.C. Macdonald, lawyer; papers of Samuel Milne, engineer; papers of William C. Allen, Inverurie. 1840 - 1922

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