John Gordon, Crovie House
Troup
Gamru, Banffshire
September 1872

1st son of Halhead

2nd son of the 1st

3rd son of the 2nd

4th James Gordon, Clachanturn, Abergeldie - son of the 3rd

5th Donald Gordon, farmer, Tornauran, Abergeldie and Jannet Abercrombie his spouse - son of the 4th - children James, Margaret, Ann

...

Margaret Gordon, eldest daughter to Donald Gordon, Tornauran, Abergeldie (who was son of the 5th generation in the estate of Abergeldie) married to Alexander McGregor, Little Auchallater, Braemar - daughter of the 5th. Issue:

James
Donald, married in Aberarder
Jean

6th James McGregor, Auchallater, Braemar married to Margaret Davidson. Issue:

Mary - alive in Braemar Cottage 1875
Ann - dead
Alexander - dead
Kathrin - her husband Rev Mr Stewart, Free Church Minister Braemar
Donald - dead

6th Jean McGregor, Auchallater married to Alaster McHardy, farmer, Auchallater and Glen Callater, Braemar. Issue:

Charles - married to Hellan McIntosh, Loinavach, Braemar
Alexander - married to Miss Duncan, Balachlaggan, Crathie
William - married Ann Cran, Marnoch
John - married Miss Macintosh, Coldrack, Braemar
Margaret - married to John Bowman, gamekeeper, Ballochbuie
Ann - married Mr McHardy, farmer, Ordachoy, Corgarff

Charles McHardy, Auchallater, then Dalvorar, Braemar, and Helen McIntosh       Loinavach, Braemar, his spouse. Issue:

A daughter married to John Duncan, Glen Cluny
A daughter married to John Lamont, forester, Cluny
A daughter not married

Alexander McHardy went to Jamaica, came home and married Miss Duncan,
      Balchlaggan, Aberarder, Crathes and went back to Jamaica where he died and
      his widow came home to about Aberdeen and two children

William McHardy, gamekeeper to the Earl of Fife, Mar Lodge, Braemar married to
      Miss Macintosh. Issue:

Alastair* married to Jean Lipp
Maggie - widow
James married to Jean Lamont
Jean married to Mr Johnston, blacksmith
Charles - off to New Zealand 21 Nov 1885 on the steamer Kaikura
Lizzie
Ann
Mary
Isabella married to Mr Robertson, Excise Officer
Elizabeth died at 21 years

*Alaster McHardy, head oversman at Castle Newe to the Master of Forbes married to Jean Lipp. Issue: A daughter married to Mr Minty, exciseman

Comments

The Bovaglie Manuscript also indicates a direct relationship to Donald Gordon of Bovaglie and James Gordon of Finnylost, Strathdon. Peter has found that John Gordon of Crovie was accurate in his work, so it may well be that Jean McGregor's father was named Alexander McGregor and not Donald McGregor as the 1866 McHardy Family Tree suggests. However, it should be pointed out that another Gordon manuscript passed on by Peter, "Gordons in Upper Deeside," by Donald Whyte, F.H.G., also states that Margaret married a Donald McGregor. This second manuscript takes the McHardy connection back a further two generations by stating that James Gordon, a shoemaker at Clachenturn (4th generation in the Bovaglie Manuscript) was married to an Elspeth McHardy. Furthermore, it also shows that Margaret Bowman, daughter to John Bowman and Margaret McHardy, married John Gordon, gamekeeper at Linn of Muick, who was also great grandson to Donald Gordon in Tournan, 5th generation in the Bovaglie Manuscript.