Charles Gordon

Abt 1657 -

• Name	Charles Gordon
  Birth	Abt 1657
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	7 Jun 1671	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1, 2]
  	Merchant apprentice to Mr Robert Blackwood - marked 'cancelled'. "...the worthy merchant could make nothing of the wild youth" (Dunbar)
  Occupation	Abt 1673	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Apprenticed to George Dallas of St Martin's, WS
  Origin	Drainie, Moray, Scotland
  Person ID	I46049	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	18 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Sir Ludovick Gordon,   b. 15 Oct 1624, Drainie, Moray, Scotland d. 1688 (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Farquhar,   b. 1624, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d. 1660, Drainie, Moray, Scotland (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 Jan 1643/44  [3]
  Family ID	F31202	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Dunbar,   b. Daughter of Sir Robert Dunbar of Grangehill
  Family ID	F31631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jun 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Occupation - Merchant apprentice to Mr Robert Blackwood - marked 'cancelled'. "...the worthy merchant could make nothing of the wild youth" (Dunbar) - 7 Jun 1671 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Occupation - Apprenticed to George Dallas of St Martin's, WS - Abt 1673 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3595] Boog Watson, Charles B., Register of Edinburgh Apprentices, 1666-1700, p38. [S3725] Dunbar, Edward Dunbar, Social Life in Former Days, Chiefly in the Province of Moray, 2nd Series, p111. [S3750] Bulloch, John Malcolm, The House of Gordon, Vol.1, p215.