Lt-Col. George Gordon
(-)
Jane Ross
(-)
Henry Theodosius Browne Collier, Adm. R.N.
(Abt 1780-1872)
Harriet Nicholas
(1793-1850)
Lt-Col. Robert Gordon
(1807-1853)
Adeline Letitia Louisa Collier
(1826-1919)
Maj. Charles Hadfield Gordon, R.E.
(1849-1891)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Georgina Evorilda Rose-Innes

Maj. Charles Hadfield Gordon, R.E.

  • Born: 6 May 1849, Ootacamund, Madras, India 1
  • Christened: 11 Jul 1849, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India 1
  • Married: 3 Mar 1886, St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Rd., Kensington, Middlesex, England 2
  • Died: 3 May 1891, Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa 3
  • Buried: 5 May 1891, St. George & St. Michael's Cathedral Graveyard, Grahamstown, South Africa 4

  Research Notes:

Charles Hadfield son of Robert Gordon of Ootacamund, Major 37th Regt Depy Adjt General, and Adeline (baptismal record)

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1869, Jan. 13, Lt., R.E. 1881, Jun. 30, Capt. 1882, served in Egyptian war (Medal and Khedives Star). 1887, Oct. 11, Maj.... 5

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In August 1871 C. H. Gordon was present at the marriage of his sister Adeline Charlotte Gordon to William Drummond Ogilvy Hay-Newton in St. George Hanover Square London.

In April 1878 C. H. Gordon was present at the marriage of his sister Amy Frances Gordon to William Samuel Cooper in North Audley Street, Westminster.

At the time of the 1881 England Census Charles Gordon, aged 31, born in Madras India, unmarried, Lieut. Royl. Engineers, was with his widowed mother at 13a North Audley St., St. George Hanover Square London.

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GORDON.—May 3, at Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, Charles Hadfield Gordon, Major Royal Engineers.

Southern Echo (Southampton), Saturday, 9 May 1891, p. 2

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Charles Hadfield Gordon of Grahamstown died aged 41 years (burial record).

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The Will of Charles Hadfield Gordon late of 18 North-Audley-street in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, Major in the Royal Engineers, who died 3 May 1891 at Grahamstown South Africa, domiciled in England, was proved 29 July at the Principal Registry by Georgina Evorilda May Gordon of Kinellan Murrayfield near Edinburgh in North Britain, widow, the relict, the sole executrix. Personal estate £4,401 18s. 6d. in the United Kingdom.. 4

  Marriage Information:

Charles married Georgina Evorilda Rose-Innes, daughter of Thomas Gilzean Rose-Innes, Esq. and Grace Louisa Fraser, on 3 Mar 1886 at St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Rd., Kensington, Middlesex, England. (Georgina Evorilda Rose-Innes was born on 22 Sep 1858 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and died on 16 May 1928 in Florence, Italy.)

  Marriage Notes:

Charles Hadfield Gordon, age 37, bachelor, Captain R.E., resident of 13A North Audley St., son of Robert Gordon, Lt.-Colonel Madras Army, and
Georgina Everilda May Rose-Innes, age 27, spinster, resident of 30 Cornwall Gardens, daughter of Thomas Gilzean Rose-Innes, gentleman

Married by Special Licence

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At St. Stephen's Church, South Kensington (by special license), on the 3d inst., by the Rev. J. P. Waldo, vicar of the parish, assisted by the Rev. C. H. Spurrell, Charles Hadfield Gordon, captain, Royal Engineers, to Georgina Everilda May, youngest daughter of T. G. Rose-Innes, Esq., of Netherdale, Banffshire.

The Dundee Courier and Argus, Monday, 8 Mar 1886, p. 4

Sources


1 British India Office, Births & Baptisms, 1712-1965.

2 Kensington St. Stephen Parish Registers, Marriages, p. 212, no. 424.

3 England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, 1891, p. 460.

4 South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004, Burials, p. 67, no. 572.

5 Gordons under Arms, A Biographical Muster Roll of Officers named Gordon in the Navies and Armies of Britain, Europe, America and in the Jacobite Risings, by Constance Oliver Skelton and John Malcolm Bulloch, Aberdeen, 1912, pp. 78-9.


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