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THE ANCESTRY OF GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 4TH EARL OF ABERDEEN

1 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

b 28 Jan 1784, Edinburgh

d 14 Dec 1860, Argyll House, London

Parents

2 George Gordon, styled Lord Haddo

b 28 Jan 1764

d 2 Oct 1791, Gight

m 18 Jun 1782, Gilmerton

3 Charlotte Baird

b ca 1757

d 8 Oct 1795, Clifton, Gloucestershire

Grandparents

4 George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen

b 19 Jun 1722, bap 20 Jun 1722, Methlic

d 13 Aug 1801, Ellon House

m

5 Catherine Hanson

bap 15 Jan 1732/33, Wakefield, Yorkshire

d 15 Mar 1817, Rudding Park, Yorkshire

6 William Baird of Newbyth, Haddingtonshire

b 29 Dec 1697, registered at Edinburgh

d 5 Jan 1766, Gilmerton

m 4 May 1747, Norham, Northumberland

7 Alice Johnston

b

d

Great-grandparents

8 William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen

bap 22 Dec 1679, Methlic

d 30 Mar 1745, Edinburgh

m 24 Apr 1716, Huntingtower

9 Susan Murray

b 15 Apr 1699, Huntingtower

d 22 Jun 1725, bur Methlic

10 Oswald Hanson of Wakefield

b

bur 24 Jun 1763, Wakefield

m 8 Apr 1722, Wakefield

11 Mary Collett

b

d

12 William Baird

bap 29 Oct 1669, Edinburgh

d 24 Sep 1737, Edinburgh

m 13 Feb 1697

13 Catherine Binning

bap 24 Feb 1667, Edinburgh

d

14 Robert Johnston of Hilton

b

d 21 May 1748

m ca 1702

15 Mary Home

b

d

Great-great-grandparents

16 George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen

b 3 Oct 1637

d 20 Apr 1720, Kellie

m 1671

17 Anne Lockhart

b

bur 19 Jul 1707, Methlic

18 John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl

b 24 Feb 1659/60, Knowsley, Lancashire

d 14 Nov 1724, Huntingtower

m 24 May 1683

19 Catharine Douglas

bap 24 Oct 1662, Hamilton

bur 17 Jan 1707, Hamilton

20

b

d

m

21

b

d

22 Ralph Collett of Oulton

b

d

m

23

b

d

24 Sir Robert Baird of Saughton Hall, 1st Baronet

bap 4 Oct 1630, Edinburgh

d Feb 1697, bur 2 Mar 1697, Edinburgh

m 18 Jan 1655, Edinburgh

25 Elizabeth Fleming

b

bur 18 Oct 1676, Edinburgh

26 Sir William Binning of Wallyford, Lord Provost of Edinburgh

b 11 Mar 1637, Fuird, near Dalkeith

d 8 Jan 1711, bur 10 Jan 1711, Edinburgh

m 26 Dec 1662, Edinburgh

27 Elizabeth Scott

bap 29 Nov 1639, Edinburgh

d 4 Dec 1698, bur 6 Dec 1698, Edinburgh

28 Joseph Johnston of Hilton

b

d ca 1684

m 13 Mar 1673, Edinburgh

29 Mary Douglas

b

d

30 Sir John Home, of Castle Home, 2nd Baronet

b

d ca 23 Jun 1695

m bef Oct 1668

31 Sidney Hamilton

b 1648

d 20 Jan 1685/86, Dublin

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)

The Scots Peerage

“Hanson Pedigree”, Yorkshire Genealogist, 1(1888):162-63

Debrett’s Baronetage of England, 7th ed. (1835)

Genealogical Collections Concerning the Sir-Name of Baird (London, 1870)

John Alexander Inglis, The Monros of Auchinbowie (Edinburgh, 1911)

Complete Baronetage

John Burke and John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry (London, 1850)

Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth (Edinburgh and London, 1894)

Edinburgh parish registers

Wakefield parish registers

Norham parish register abstract (Society of Genealogists, NU/R95)

Liberton parish registers

Hutton parish registers

Tibbermore parish registers

Decennial Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland, 4 vols. (Edinburgh, 1863-89), 1760-1769, 3

The Scots Magazine, 27(1765):672

The London Evening-Post, 1-4 Oct 1737

The Daily Gazetteer, 4 Oct 1737

National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court records, CC8/8/103

Transcription of monumental inscription for George, Lord Haddo, and Charlotte Baird (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149720265)

John A. Inglis, “Edinburgh During the Provostship of Sir William Binning, 1675-1677”, The Scottish Historical Review, 12(1915):369-87

Henry Paton, ed., Register of Interments in the Greyfriars Burying-Ground, Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1902)

Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum

Decennial Indexes to the Services of Heirs in Scotland

The Sessional Papers Printed by Order of the House of Lords, 16(1842):120-21 (376-77)

Notes

In “Hanson Pedigree”, Yorkshire Genealogist, 1(1888):162, Oswald Hanson is shown as a son of Benjamin Hanson (bap 1685), son of William Hanson of Stanley and Katherine Hatfield. This appears to be incorrect but it seems likely that Oswald was connected to that family in some other way.