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Your connection with Scotland in the 1700s, and with pioneers in South Australia in the late 1800s
Jessie & Alexander GORDON - family tree & stories
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 | 0.02 - Inverness tour
Are you planning a visit to where your ancestors came from?
This is a tour guide of the places associated with three families - Gordon, Matheson & Finlayson.
It includes Craigton Cottage, Belmaduthy, Evanton & Brahan - and many others places.
(By Don Gordon - updated in May 2019) |
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| 0.04 - Craigton Cottage
Three places called Craigton Cottage were associated with the Finlaysons:-
* North Kessock - where the Finlayson family lived for several decades (1840s, 1850s & 1860s), and where David was born in 1845. It is now called Croft Downie.
* 8 Southside Place in Inverness - and where one of David's siblings lived in the 1890s & 1900s - and where David visited in 1901.
* Park Street, Hyde Park in Adelaide - where David lived for a short time in 1911.
(Don Gordon - updated in May 2019) |
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 | Belmaduthy in parish of Knockbain
* This is a large estate where Alexander Gordon was living when he married Margaret McDonald in 1794.
* Their son, John Gordon, was born here in 1795.
* For many years, the family lived on the estate where Alexander was a servant.
* (By Don Gordon - updated in July 2025) |
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| Brahan Castle
History by Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale & Lady Jeune, published in Victoria Voices in 1892
https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/EM/EM1892A/EM1892A-BrahanCastl |
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| Map of Brahan, Urray
Showing Conon House, Dunglass, Brahan Ferry, Brahan Mains, and Brahan House (with remains of the castle) |
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