I am wondering if anyone has any reference to a KERR family who is said to have worked at Gordon Castle - possibly mid -1800's. It is said John KERR b Aberdeen 1813,was the Estate Manager but we are not sure at all if this is correct, as he was a mariner from 1851 at least. The family connection to Gordon Castle may come from the BARRON side of the family. I have found another distant cousin who has a very similar story. She says an ancestor stayed with an aunt there and that she remembered the seagulls squawking and the place being quite remote. The owners of the Castle were away at the time..... Finding the facts is very difficul!! Regards Jocelyn Sydney Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fay Moran" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [MORAY] Gordon Castle / Family > Hello Gavin. a report in the Courant 1/08/1851 describes the improvements > to Estate farms .The page I have mentions Mr Robertson at Westar Boggs, Mr > Taylor at Bawds, (upwards of 100 acres) Mr Simpson at Cowfords and Mr > Reid > at Stynie Fay--,--- Original Message ----- > From: Gavin Bell <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:46 PM > Subject: Re: [MORAY] Gordon Castle / Family > > >> Further to what has been posted, I know that there are number of Estate >> Plans from the Gordon Estates with the National Archives of Scotland. >> The ones I have seen (which were made available at West Register Hous, >> but may well be held offsite) dated from 1770 -1810. The ones I was >> interested in were mostly in rural parts of the estate, and some >> included names of occupants of various farms. >> >> >> Gavin Bell >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >