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     Charlotte Mary De Quincy Sewell was born on 8 January 1814.³ She was the daughter of Chief Justice Jonathan/3 Sewell and Henrietta Smith.¹ Charlotte Mary De Quincy Sewell was baptised on 14 April 1814 at Holy Trinity Church, Quebec, by Salter Jehosaphat Mountain.³ She died on 31 December 1825 at the age of 11.⁴ She was buried on 2 January 1826 in St. John's Street burial ground, Quebec, and re-buried in Mount Hermon W-463.⁴

     Colonel Benjamin Alford married Mary Richards.³ Colonel Benjamin Alford died in 1709.⁴

     Elizabeth Sewall was born on 13 September 1720 in Boston, Massachusetts.³ She was the daughter of Jonathan/1 Sewall and Elizabeth Alford.¹ Elizabeth Sewall was baptised on 18 September 1720 at Brattle Street Church, Boston.³ She married, as his second wife, Thaddeus Mason, son of John Mason and Elizabeth Spring, on 7 November 1748 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.⁴ Elizabeth Sewall died on 12 February 1755 in Charlestown at the age of 34.^4,5

     Mary Sewall was born on 5 September 1723.³ She was the daughter of Jonathan/1 Sewall and Elizabeth Alford.¹ Mary Sewall was baptised on 8 September 1723 at Brattle Street, Boston.³

     Stephen Sewell K.C. was born circa 25 May 1770 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Jonathan/2 Sewell and Esther Quincy.¹ Stephen Sewell K.C. married Jane Caldwell, daughter of James Caldwell, on 18 June 1801 in Christ Church, Montreal.³

The younger son of a prominent loyalist who was the last British attorney general of Massachusetts, Stephen Sewall was only five when his family emigrated to England at the beginning of the War of American Independence. In 1778 the Sewells settled in Bristol, where Stephen attended grammar school and at home absorbed his parents' fear of democracy and their fervent desire that he and his elder brother, Jonathan, recoup what the family had lost in America.

In 1787 Stephen and his parents recrossed the ocean to join Jonathan, who had earlier immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Stephen followed his brother into the legal office of Ward Chipman, and was called to the New Brunswick bar in 1791. Like Jonathan before him, he decided – later that year – to seek his fortune in the larger colony of Lower Canada, whose governor was Lord Dorchester (Guy Carleton), patron of the loyalists. This decision evinced a permanent character trait: the desire to model his career after that of his elder brother. To the latter he had confessed in 1790, "It has been always my ambition to follow as nearly in your footsteps as I was capable and beleive me it always will be."

After obtaining his commission as a lawyer on 16 Dec. 1791, Sewell established himself in Montreal and began the pursuit of clients, who would soon include many of the leading merchants and wealthier seigneurs. By 1805 he had one of the most flourishing practices in the city, and from it he reputedly drew between £600 and £800 a year. He was less fortunate in his many business investments, among them the Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works, at least one high-risk venture to the West Indies in 1816–17, and extensive speculation in real estate in Lower Canada; he acquired 1,000 acres of land in Grenville Township in 1797, was granted 3,200 acres in Hemmingford Township in 1811, and owned land in Montreal.

Sewell was a staunch adherent of the English party in Lower Canada, and his most notable enthusiasm was ferreting out spies and revolutionaries. Like many others of his party during the wars against revolutionary France, he was convinced that at the appearance of even the smallest French force the Canadians would rise in arms and massacre the British minority. In the aftermath of riots against militia service in 1794 he was one of the organizers of cartridge making and other preparations to defend Montreal against what proved to be a phantom horde of armed habitants. During disturbances protesting the road act of 1796 Sewell believed the story of Montreal tavern-keeper Elmer Cushing that Citizen Pierre-Auguste Adet, the French minister to the United States, had come in person to Montreal to hatch a "plan for the extirpation of the English." With more reason he accepted his informer's claim that one of Adet's agents had attempted to recruit a fifth column. Sewell hurried Cushing down to Quebec to see his brother, then attorney general. Promised an entire township for his evidence, Cushing swore a deposition describing the activities of the agent, David McLane. McLane was arrested in the capital in May 1797, convicted of treason in July, and on the 21st of that month hanged, beheaded, and disembowelled as an example to others.

Sewell remained nervous and alert throughout the Napoleonic period. In 1801 he convinced himself that the parish priests north of Montreal were conspiring to aid a leader of the Canadian party in the House of Assembly, Joseph Papineau, in his determination "to (be) a Buoniparte in this province." A series of fires in the city during the summer of 1803 was put down to the "great design which the Emissaries of France have on this Country," Sewell having earlier decided that Napoleon would "make every possible Exertion to land troops in the Province" and that "the Canadians will join them in numbers." "Heaven only knows," he concluded, "if we do not stand On the brink of destruction." In 1801, and again during a political crisis in 1810, he employed a Canadian informer to report on disloyalty among the captains of militia. Sewell himself joined Montreal's 1st Militia Battalion, a British unit, as an ensign about 1803; he became a captain in 1812. An attempt in 1814 by Canadian lawyers to establish an advocates' society – which Sewell helped to abort– was characteristically interpreted as the work of "Jacobins." Sewell made sure that Jonathan and, through him, the governor were kept informed of his activities, for visible loyalty was a common route to the government posts he coveted.

Sewell's longstanding efforts, and those of his brother, who became chief justice in 1808, succeeded the following year when he was named by Governor Craig to replace James Stuart, recently dismissed for political unreliability, as solicitor general of Lower Canada; the office was worth about £1,700 a year in salary and fees. In November 1809 Sewell won a seat in the House of Assembly for Huntingdon County along with a leader of the Canadian party, Jean-Antoine Panet. The contest had been hotly disputed: after 15 days of polling Panet obtained 897 votes to Sewell's 895, and the loser, Augustin Cuvillier, protested Sewell's election in February 1810. However, Craig dissolved the legislature on 1 March, and in the subsequent elections Sewell was returned along with Joseph Papineau in Montreal East, Stuart being a defeated candidate. Like many others of his circle, Sewell thought Craig's imprisonment of certain Canadian political leaders in March – the so-called Reign of Terror – an heroic and infinitely wise act of statesmanship, but he was soon disappointed to learn that the imperial authority had quietly repudiated any further aggressive actions, including enforcement of claims to royal supremacy over the Roman Catholic Church and a proposed suspension of the constitution. As usual Sewell and his friends proved to be more imperialist than the imperial government.

In 1811 Craig was replaced by Sir George Prevost, who, requiring the support of the population as war with the United States loomed, adopted a conciliatory policy towards Canadian leaders. Sewell and his colleagues in the English party were outraged by the resulting deprivation of influence and patronage they suffered. They responded in part with a series of vitriolic letters to the Montreal Herald in 1814–15 attacking Prevost's civil and military administration. The most damning letters, signed Veritas, attributed the British retreats from Sackets Harbor, N.Y., in 1813 and Plattsburgh in 1814 to cowardice and stupidity on Prevost's part. Suspicious, despite Sewell's denials that he had authored the letters, the governor cleverly ordered him to prosecute the printer and the editor of the Montreal Herald for criminal libel. The editor, Mungo Kay, thereupon revealed that Sewell had written and brought to him in great secrecy an unsigned article entitled "Particulars of the late disastrous affair on Lake Champlain," which was published shortly after the Plattsburgh débâcle. Sewell admitted authorship but asserted that the piece was simply a review of the facts. Although the article was less explicitly critical than the polemics of Veritas, its conclusion left little doubt about what the writer thought of Prevost's strategy. "A few minutes more would have given up the fortifications . . . into our hands, and every American must have fallen, or been made prisoner," he wrote. Instead, "it was thought necessary to check the ardor of the troops" and control of the lake was lost. Sewell was suspended from office immediately, and in July 1816 he was dismissed by Governor Sir John Coape Sherbrooke following a report on the matter by the Executive Council.

Thereafter a great deal of Sewell's energy was expended in seeking rehabilitation. The chief justice operated under a standing injunction to work for his brother's interest whenever an office remotely suitable became vacant and to work fast, since, as Stephen put it in 1825, "there is no time ever to be lost in looking after Appointments." Jonathan pleaded with Governor Lord Dalhousie (Ramsay) to restore the office of solicitor general to his brother, but to no avail. Nor could he, despite repeated attempts, satisfy Stephen's most cherished ambition, which was to follow him to the bench. The chief justice seems, however, to have been able to influence the granting of some minor posts and honours. In any case Sewell was named secretary to boundary commissioner John Ogilvy (1817), a warden of the House of Industry in Montreal (1818), a commissioner for the repair of the Montreal prison (1819), and a commissioner for the construction of the Lachine Canal (1821).

As secretary to Ogilvy, Sewell kept a journal of the boundary commission's work between May and September 1817 along the St Lawrence River from Saint-Régis to Cornwall, Upper Canada. In it he recorded meteorological observations and commented on geological structures, soil conditions, flora, and fauna. He also had a clear eye for revealing details of social life. Thus he remarked that Highland settlers made poor farmers but good militiamen, that it was the women who ran the farms – "in fact they are the supports of their husbands and families" – and that their daughters furnished Montreal with servants. He saw that "the manners of the St Regis Indians are fast changing to European their dress resembles the Canadians." Although the immigrants who passed by in bateau loads on the St Lawrence on their way to Upper Canada were not dressed in rags, there was an "appearance of great want amongst them," and he noted that "they frequently lament having quitted their own country." Their plight touched him, and he found it "a subject of great regret that Government in times of such extreme pressure should have deemed it proper to deprive the new settlers of their rations." He was also highly attentive to economic trends as trade with Upper Canada expanded and the machine age dawned in the colonies. Thus, he observed that Lower Canadian villages such as Vaudreuil, Les Cèdres, and Coteau-du-Lac could be developed around mills and factories using water-driven machinery, and that transportation procedures could be made more efficient on the heavily used section of the St Lawrence between Cornwall and Montreal.

In Montreal Sewell was active in community affairs. Early in the century he served on a committee for the erection of Christ Church. In 1820 he acted as the senior attorney of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning to negotiate the transfer from James McGill's estate of the Burnside property on which McGill College was to be built. He was a principal founder seven years later of the Natural History Society of Montreal, of which he became president. In 1828 he was among the founders of a lawyers' library, which became the Advocates' Library and Law Institute of Montreal in 1830 and ultimately the Montreal bar library; he also served as the library's first president.

As a lawyer Sewell could not equal his brother's ability to go quickly to the nub of a complicated legal problem or to ground a conclusion in general principle as well as precedent. He was able, however, to weigh both sides of a case intelligently; he prepared thoroughly and was well read in both the common and the civil law systems. Sherbrooke's unfavourable opinion of Sewell's capacities at the time of his dismissal can probably be discounted; the lawyer's clientele suggests high competence, and La Minerve, which was hardly sympathetic politically, observed after his death that his "knowledge of law made him one of our leading jurists." In 1827 Dalhousie had appointed him a king's counsel. His talent as a lawyer and his loyalty were much in demand in the spring of 1832 following an election riot in Montreal West during which regular troops had fired on a crowd, killing three Canadians. He acted as legal adviser to the commanding officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fisher MacIntosh and Captain Henry Temple, and in his capacity as king's counsel and doyen of the Montreal bar he later assisted in the deliberations of the Court of King's Bench that resulted in the freeing of the two officers, an outcome ardently desired by Governor Lord Aylmer (Whitworth-Aylmer).

Sewell had less than three weeks to congratulate himself and imagine the favours soon to flow from government. In the early morning of 21 June he was struck down by cholera, and he died a few hours later. He left a comfortable home as well as moveable property valued at nearly £600. The library of more than 900 volumes alone was worth £215. His properties included a farm and lot in the seigneury of Prairie-de-la-Madeleine and 3,400 acres of township lands. However, unfortunate investments had continued to sink him in financial difficulties, and after 1817 he had avoided bankruptcy only through the generosity of his brother; in October 1832 his debts totalled £7,256, of which nearly £3,000 was owed to Jonathan. The estate was insolvent; his widow, Jane, and their six children, of whom two were minors, were obliged to renounce it. F. Murray Greenwood in Dictionary of Canadian Biography.²

Stephen Sewell K.C. was author of Particulars of the late disastrous affair on Lake Champlain, published in the Montreal Herald, 17 Sept. 1814. He may also have written The letters of Veritas, re-published from the "Montreal Herald"; containing a succinct narrative of the military administration of Sir George Prevost, during his command in the Canadas . . . (Montreal, 1815), but this pamphlet may have been the work of John Richardson, as Henry Scadding asserts in Some Canadian noms-de-plume identified: with samples of the writings to which they are appended, Canadian Journal (Toronto), new ser., 15 (1876–78): 332–41.²

     Benjamin Sewell was born on 5 August 1771.² He was the son of Jonathan/2 Sewell and Esther Quincy.¹ Benjamin Sewell died in January 1772 at the age of 0.³

     Mary Payne Sewell was born on 10 August 1764.² She was the daughter of Jonathan/2 Sewell and Esther Quincy.¹ Named after her paternal grandmother. Mary Payne Sewell died on 16 August 1764 at the age of 0.²

     Benjamin Sewall was born on 6 April 1708.^2,3 He was baptised in April 1708 by Rev. W. Noyes.² He was the son of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell.¹ Benjamin Sewall died.²

     Mehitable Sewall was born on 21 May 1695.³ She was the daughter of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell.¹ Mehitable Sewall was baptised on 26 May 1695.³ She married Thomas Robie, son of William Robie and Elizabeth Greenough, on 17 January 1722/23 in Salem, Massachusetts.⁴

     Margaret Sewall was born on 7 May 1687 in Salem.^3,4 She was baptised on 8 May 1687 by Rev. John Hig. (Could this be Higginson?).³ She was the daughter of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell.¹ Margaret Sewall married Capt. John Higginson, son of Col. John Higginson and Sarah Savage, on 11 November 1714 his second wife.^5,6 Margaret Sewall died in March 1736 in Salem, Massachusetts, at the age of 48.⁷

     Jane Sewall was born on 20 December 1688 in Salem, Massachusetts.³ She was the daughter of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell.¹ Jane Sewall died on 23 December 1688 in Salem, Massachusetts, at the age of 0 (dates given on gravestone in Broad Street Cemetery)

Lilies & Roses in one day
Lose all their beautious Aray,
Grace that Crowns Saints eternally
Prevents not Death, prepares to die
Compleat Relief for men undone
Is well condition'd resurection.³

     Susannah Sewall was born on 24 October 1691.² She was baptised on 25 October 1691.² She was the daughter of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell.¹ Susannah Sewall married secondly Rev. Aaron Porter, son of Samuel Porter and Joanna Cook, on 22 October 1713 at Salem, Massachusetts.^3,4

     Dr. William Bell was born on 15 March 1792.¹ He was the son of William Bell and Markie Minto. Dr. William Bell was baptised on 25 March 1792 at Bedrule, Roxburgh, Scotland.^2,3 He graduated in 1812 from Edinburgh M.D. He entered military service as a Hospital Mate for General Service 24 August 1812, promoted Assistant Surgeon 56th (or the West Essex) Regiment of Foot, 4 Mar 1813; 40th (or the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 20 Sept. 1827; Surgeon 26th (or the Cameronian) Regiment of Foot 15 Mar 1831: Staff Surgeon 1st Class 7 June 1844; Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals 12 Mar 1852; Inspector General 7 Dec 1858. Granted local rank of Inspector General 18 Sept. 1857 to 6 Dec. 1858.

"Dr. Bell's services extended over a period of 47 years. He served in Holland during the campaign of 1814; and was at both attacks of Merxem and at the bombardment of Antwerp; he was surgeon of the 26th. (or the Cameronian) Regiment of Foot throughout the war in China in 1840 to 1842, and was present on every occasion on which the Regiment was engaged. (Medal and clasp.) He served also during many years in Mauritius, India, Canada and Nova Scotia, and died leaving a widow and five children dependent chiefly on their Pensions."

The first Opium War took place 4th July 1840 - 17th August 1842. Three battalions of British infantry (18th, 26th and 49th Foot) were sent from India and Ceylon and were supported by a detachment of Artillery.

The force arrived off Macao on the 21st June and, a week later, entered Chusan harbour and began a blockade of which the Chinese took little notice. Sickness developed in the British force on an appalling scale. The 26th Foot which had arrived 900 strong had no more than 140 fit men by the end of 1840, and of a force originally numbering 3,000, 450 had died and 500 were in hospital.

In January 1840 an amphibious attack was made up river towards Canton. The forts defending that city were taken but protracted negotiations for an armistice delayed operations. The Chinese then counter attacked in April, as a result of which the British force staged a full scale attack on Canton itself. Canton was defended by 45,000 Chinese troops, but the 3,500 soldiers, marines, and seamen under General Gough routed the Chinese and captured the city.

On 1 November 1831 at Poona, India, he was made a freemason. "Lodge Orion in the West No XV. November 1st 1831 in our Lodge Room Poona raised to the Sublime degree of Master Mason" from a tracing in possesion of CJR. He married Zébée Stewart Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 22 October 1850 in St. George's Church, Montreal, Canada, the service was conducted by the Rev. William Bond. Dr. William Bell retired on half pay on 31 December 1858. In 1860, the address of Dr. William Bell was Jedburgh, Scotland. He died on 4 November 1862 suddenly in Boundary Bank, Jedburgh, at the age of 70; at half past four in the afternoon.^1,4 He was buried on 8 November 1862 in the Churchyard, Ancrum, 4th Row. 5th Room Room. 1st. Grave.⁵

     Zébée Stewart Gordon was born on 26 October 1826 in Southsea, Hampshire. She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Zébée Stewart Gordon was christened on 24 November 1826 at St. Mary's Church, Portsea, Hampshire.¹ She was christened again on 9 February 1827, this is recorded as being at Boldre, Hampshire. However this appears to be a second christening which took place "at Captains Thos: Edward Symonds' Royal Navy at Tweed near Lymington, by the Revd: Chas: Shrubb 8th. Febr: 1827 - Sponsors Mrs. Whitby of Newlands Hants; Mrs. Wray, the wife of Mr. President Wray of Demerara and John Stuart Esquire of the same Colony. A.G. " according to a copy of a baptismal register.^2,3 She married Dr. William Bell, son of William Bell and Markie Minto, on 22 October 1850 in St. George's Church, Montreal, Canada, the service was conducted by the Rev. William Bond. Zébée Stewart Gordon died on 5 July 1901 at 7 Woburn Road, Bedford, at the age of 74 after a very short illness.⁴

     Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. was born illegitimate on 15 February 1794 at Gordon Castle; the natural son of Alexander 4th Duke of Gordon.^3,1 He was the son of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Isabel Williamson.^1,2 Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. was baptised on 30 August 1794 in the Parish of Bellie, Fochabers, Morayshire, by the Rev. James Gordon, Minister of Fochabers. Witnesses, James Clapperton and Alexander Ore.⁴ He was educated at Rothes School.⁵ On 7 October 1810 he entered military service as a Gentleman Cadet. He was commissioned into the Corp of Royal Engineers as a 2nd Lt. (his father the Duke having got him his commission). Between 1823 and 1824 he served as senior officer in Demerara during an insurrection of the slaves; he was mentioned in general orders and received the thanks of the Court of Policy of United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo. He was a junior member of the Court Martial of the missionary John Smith for exciting the negroes to rebellion at which Smith was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged but he died of dysentry before the sentence could be carried out. On 2 December 1824 he was promoted to 1st Lt. and again to that rank on 25 March 1825 from a period on half pay. 10 Jan 1827 Captain, 11 Nov 1851 Bt. Major and Lt. Colonel from 6 December 1851 Bt. Colonel 28 November 1854, Colonel 10 September 1856, Major General 20 April 1861. He served for many years in Canada and ultimately at the Cape of Good Hope.⁶ He married Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, daughter of François Joseph Touzi and Anne Careaud, on 6 August 1822 in the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire,, by licence. In the notice in The Morning Chronicle Zébée is described as being of Tweedside, Lymington.⁷ Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. died on 16 March 1863 at 22 Bloomsbury Square, London, at the age of 69; (17 March 1863 according to the Bell birthday book).^1,8

     Zébée Anne Rose Touzi was born on 28 February 1799 in Cap François, Department du Nord, St. Dominique, the day before her twin sister Lucinde. Some sources give the year of birth as 1798 because of a mis-interpretation of the French Revolutionary calendar.¹ She was the daughter of François Joseph Touzi and Anne Careaud. Zébée Anne Rose Touzi married Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E., son of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon, 7th Marquess, 1st Earl of Norwich and Isabel Williamson, on 6 August 1822 in the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire,, by licence. In the notice in The Morning Chronicle Zébée is described as being of Tweedside, Lymington.² Zébée Anne Rose Touzi died on 20 October 1874 in London at the age of 75 her death is registered in the Marylebone District.³ She was buried on 24 October 1874 in Holy Trinity, Cookham, Berkshire, Her age is given as 76 in the burial record.⁴

      Of 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot. Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon was known in the family as Uncle Alick.¹ He was born on 26 September 1823 in Demerara.^2,3 He was the son of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon was christened on 16 February 1824 at Boldre, Hampshire.² He married firstly Mary Elizabeth Whitney, daughter of Thomas Annesley Whitney and Julia Gaven, on 19 June 1851 at Bishopsbourne, Kent, the service being conducted by the Rev. Arthur Eden, brother-in-law of the bride.⁴ Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon married secondly Constance Mary Mordacque, daughter of Rev. L.H. Mordacque and Sarah (Unknown), on 29 October 1879 at the Town Church, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, she was less than half his age.⁵ They both appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at Colborne Place, Queens Road, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands; which shows Alexander Gordon as a Major General retired on full pay. The household also consisted of two sisters, Mary and Amelia Luxon of St. Samson, as domestic staff.³ Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon died on 23 August 1891 in Guernsey at the age of 67 s.n.p.^6,7 Gordon was appointed as an ensign on 11 March 1842, promoted Lt. 3 May 1844, Captain 29 December 1848 [by purchase], Bt. Major 19 January 1858, Major 16 November 1868, Bt. Lt. Colonel 27 December 1868, Lt. Colonel 15 Jan 1873, Colonel 22 Dec 1875 and honorary rank of Major General 31 May 1876. He retired on full pay. He served at the siege of Delhi, present at the repulse of sorties, 4 and 18 July, action of Naggufghur on 25 August where he commanded the reserves. Medal (clasp).^8,9

     Mary Elizabeth Whitney was born circa 1826.³ She was the daughter of Thomas Annesley Whitney and Julia Gaven.^1,2 Mary Elizabeth Whitney married Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon, son of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 19 June 1851 in Bishopsbourne, Kent, the service being conducted by the Rev. Arthur Eden, brother-in-law of the bride.¹ Mary Elizabeth Whitney died on 14 December 1862 in South Camp, Aldershot, s.p.³

     Constance Mary Mordacque was born on 28 August 1855? In Haslingden, Lancashire.^3,4,2 She was the daughter of Rev. L.H. Mordacque and Sarah (Unknown).² Constance Mary Mordacque married Maj Gen. Alexander William Gordon, son of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 29 October 1879 in the Town Church, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, she was less than half his age.⁵ They both appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at Colborne Place, Queens Road, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands; which shows Alexander Gordon as a Major General retired on full pay. The household also consisted of two sisters, Mary and Amelia Luxon of St. Samson, as domestic staff.³ Constance Mary Mordacque died in 1901.⁴

     Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon was born on 7 August 1825 in Eastwood, Hampshire.^1,2 She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon was christened on 4 March 1826 at Boldre, Hampshire.² She married Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E., son of Capt. Henry Dundas Beatson R.N., in 1853. Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon and Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. appear on the census of 1881 living at 57 Bromham Road, Bedford.¹ Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon died on 10 August 1917 at Rotherwood, Bedford, at the age of 92. The funeral took place in Bedford on Tuesday 14 August.³

     Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. was born on 16 September 1812 in Greenock, Lanarkshire, Scotland.¹ He was the son of Capt. Henry Dundas Beatson R.N.. He entered the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, early in 1828, and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 29 May 1832. He served in Malta from 1835 to 1839. In the latter year, while still a young Subaltern, he received from the Admiralty the responsible appointment of Director of Engineering and Architectural Works in the Dockyard and other naval establishments at Portsmouth, which he held for six years being then transferred to a similar appointment at Woolwich till its abolition in 1848. He then served in Canada till 1854; and for having rescued at great personal risk, during the destruction by fire of the Parliament House at Quebec, in February of that year, valuable public records, the rescue of which had been unsuccessfully attempted by other gentlemen he received the thanks of the Canadian Legislature. Later in the same year he was appointed Superintending-Engineer of the Ordnance Manufacturing Departments at Woolwich. On 9 November 1855 his promotion from Captain to Lieutenant Colonel was gazetted. He served in New Zealand from 1866 to 1869, during the latter half of that period commanding her Majesty's Forces in the Colony, on return from which he retired on full pay and was promoted to the honourary rank of Major-General. Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. married firstly Elizabeth Mary Ann Wood, daughter of Lt. General John Sullivan Wood, on 19 November 1836 at Palace Chapel, Valetta, Malta.^2,3 Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. married secondly Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, in 1853. In 1876 in a conveyance the address of Roger Beatson and his wife Charlotte and Z.S. Bell is given as 19 Ashburnham Road, Bedford. Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. and Charlotte Frederica Zébée Gordon appear on the census of 1881 living at 57 Bromham Road, Bedford.¹ Maj. Gen. Roger Stewart Beatson R.E. died on 2 September 1896 in Rotherwood, Bedford, Bedfordshire.

     Lucinde Helen Gordon was born on 18 December 1828 in Eastbourne, Sussex. She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Lucinde Helen Gordon married Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain, son of Major Gen. Francis Haultain and Eliza Ann Dean, on 18 September 1850 in St. George's Church, Montreal.^1,2 Lucinde Helen Gordon died on 15 November 1915 at 78 Durocher Street, Montreal, Canada, at the age of 86.

     Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain was born on 7 November 1821 in Brussels, Belgium.^3,4 He was the son of Major Gen. Francis Haultain and Eliza Ann Dean.² Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 12 March 1839.⁵ He married Lucinde Helen Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 18 September 1850 in St. George's Church, Montreal.^1,6 Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain emigrated in 1860 to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, with his family upon his retirement as a Lt. Colonel in the Royal Artillery.⁴ He died on 9 December 1882 in Peterborough, Canada, at the age of 61.^3,4

     Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon was born on 13 July 1830.¹ She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon married Rev. Donald Fraser D.D., son of John Fraser and Lillias Fraser, on 28 April 1853 in Kingston, Canada, the service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Rogers an Episcopal Minister.^2,3 Theresa's death was registered in the quarter ending March 1909 in the Hastings, Sussex registration district.⁴

      Free Church Minister and author.² Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. was born on 15 January 1826 in Inverness.^3,1 He was the son of John Fraser and Lillias Fraser.¹ Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. was baptised on 11 February 1826 at Inverness by the Rev. Robert Finlater. James Monro and George Fraser were witnesses. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen (M.A., D.D., 1872), and studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained in 1851 a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and from 1851 to 1859 he was minister of the Coté St. Presbyterian Church in Montreal. He then accepted a charge in Inverness and in 1870 he became minister of Marylebone Presbyterian Church in London.⁴ He married Theresa Eliza Isabella Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 28 April 1853 in Kingston, Canada, the service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Rogers an Episcopal Minister.^5,2 In a 1876 conveyance the address of Donald Fraser and his wife Theresa Isabella was given as at 20 Powis Square, Bayswater. Rev. Donald Fraser D.D. died on 12 February 1892 in 3 Cambridge Square, Hyde-park, London, at the age of 66 of pneumonia.^3,4 He was buried on 19 February 1892 in Chapel Yard Cemetery, Inverness,

His obituary reads:

We announce with regret the death of Dr. Donald Fraser, minister of the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, which took place at his residence, 3, Cambridge Square on Friday night, after an illness which lasted only four days. Dr. Fraser was born at Inverness, where his father filled the office of Provost, on January 15, 1826. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards studied divinity at Knox College, Toronto, and the New College, Edinburgh. In 1851 he accepted the charge of a church at Montreal, becoming eight years later minister of the congregation of the Free High Church, Inverness. In 1870 he came to London on a call from the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, and has since taken a leading part in the Presbyterian Church of England, having been twice Moderator of the Synod. Yesterday morning, long before the beginning of the service, Marylebone Presbyterian Church, 'Upper George Street, Bryanston Square, was crowded in every part, the announcement in Saturday morning's papers that the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, would occupy the pulpit tho following forenoon, and the report of his sudden death in the evening journals, being, no doubt, instrumental in attracting such immense attendance. Before the service began Mr. Cecil Robertson, one of the deacons, who was accompanied by Dr. Renton, MP., and other prominent members of the congregation, broke the intelligence of their minister's sudden and unexpected death, Dr. Fraser, he said, died en Friday night, at 10 o'clock, of pneumonia after an illness of only four days' duration. On Sunday last he occupied the pulpit in that church as usual, and no later than Monday he occupied the choir at the annual business meeting of the congregation. Dr. Fraser was for 23 years the minister of that church. His fame was in all the churches, and everywhere he was honoured and revered; but they who know him intimately and had constant intercourse with him regarded him with deep, warm, ardent affection. The funeral would take place at Inverness on Saturday next; the mortal remains of their beloved minister would be brought to that church on Thursday, when a memorial service would be held. An appropriate service then followed, with a short address from a Canadian clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Hamilton (who was a personal friend of the deceased minister nearly years ago in Montreal). In the evening the Rev. Dr. Matthews, of Toronto, and secretary of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance, preached to a numerous congregation. The late Dr. Fraser was unanimously elected at tho last sederunt of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England to represent the London churches at the Great Synod to be held in Toronto this year.

At the close of his sermon in the City Temple yesterday morning, Dr. Parker spoke of the event as follows:- I have heard that Dr. Donald Fraser is dead. When will this ruthless sword, invisible, tremendous in action, cease, and give us rest awhile, lest our poverty become too painful? That sword has already wrought grievous desolation in the churches. Man after man has fallen, some go suddenly; especially in the last case for I hear that Dr. Fraser who was ill only some four days. Is it possible that some of us can only be four days off the grave? Can we be arrested, imprisoned, driven into the nameless darkness in four little days? Surely the lesson is: Work while it is called day, for the night cometh wherein no man can work. Dr. Donald Fraser has been long in London. He has been one of the most conspicuous ornaments of the Presbyterian Church in England. He was passionately devoted to the holy ministry. If now and again he came into other fields, they were collateral and not alien grounds into which he came that he might fight some battle for righteousness and liberty. In theology he was intensely orthodox; in preaching he was vigorous, varied, eloquent, practical, and most Useful. As a leader of his Church he was always to the front, wise, progressive without being rash, and strong in his very cautiousness. We cannot allow such a man to disappear in silence. We owe something to holy memories. Our recollections of this kind should be amongst our chief treasures. What a call we have had this year of desolation to the younger ministers to prepare themselves for filling great vacancies, to he baptised for the dead, to be ready to take the places of the standard-bearer. Yet of the future I have no fear. The Church is God's, not ours. He will find the leaders, the men of valour, the men needful for the present occasion and opportunity. Not one of us is indispensable to God. Yet, looking within narrow and social and fraternal lines, how poor we are made by same deaths; the air has changed its temperature, the earth has taken upon it a look of strangeness, the very ground once so familiar seems now not to care for our trespass. To outlive your generation, to become a stranger amongst the multiplied millions of earth - O this would be a penalty, this would be one of the cruel judgments of fate! I sympathize with our bereaved friends, men who gather around vacant pulpits and wonder when the familiar figure will be there. God help us to work, to love, to suffer, if need be! This is the day of splendid opportunity.^4,1



                         

      Gordon entered the Royal Navy on 12 September 1845 as a Volunteer 1st class and was posted to the Lark; on 10 April 1847 to the Queen and on 24 May of that year as Midshipman on the Spartan; on 19 June 1849 to the Impregnable and on 30 July to the Daedalus which sailed with supplies for the discovery ship Plover, then in the Bering Straits, and Gordon was transferred to the latter vessel as captain's mate. The ship had already been in arctic waters for several years awaiting either news of, or the return of Franklin and his men from their expedition. On 20 August 1852 he was posted to the Swift and on 9 November 1854 he was promoted to Lieutenant. He left the Navy in 1861.¹ George Tindal Gordon was born on 11 January 1832 in Eastbourne, Sussex.² He was the son of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. George Tindal Gordon was baptised on 4 March 1832 in the Parish of St. Mary, Eastbourne, Sussex.² He married Elizabeth Knevitt, daughter of Morris Thomas Knevitt and Mary Anne Kendal, on 8 June 1867 in Chalmers Manse, East Melbourne, Australia, the service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Cairns.³ George Tindal Gordon died on 9 April 1911 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 79 of Bright's disease.²

     Jessie Gavin Gordon was born on 24 July 1834.¹ She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Jessie Gavin Gordon died on 31 July 1834.¹

     Merelina Victoria Gordon was also known as Queenie Gordon. She was born on 2 August 1837 in Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon.¹ She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Merelina Victoria Gordon married William Ledsam, son of Joseph Frederick Ledsam and Elizabeth Ann Ashton, on 6 August 1858 in Edgbaston, Birmingham.² On the night of 7 April 1861 Merelina Victoria Gordon and William Ledsam were enumerated in the census of that year as living at at 9, Chad Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.³ In 1876 in a conveyance she is described as a widow of 12 Boundary Road, St. John's Wood. Merelina Victoria Gordon appears on the census of 1881 at 12 Boundary Road, London, together with Merelina, Beatrice and Alexandra. Amy Bell, her niece is recorded as staying with them. There was also a cook, a parlour maid and a lady's maid.⁴ She appears on the census of 1891 at Holdenhurst, Christchurch, Hampshire.⁵ Merelina's death was registered in the quarter ending March 1902 in the Steyning, Sussex registration district.⁶

      Attorney and solicitor.² William Ledsam was christened on 8 December 1832 at Edgbaston, Birmingham.¹ He was the son of Joseph Frederick Ledsam and Elizabeth Ann Ashton.¹ William Ledsam married Merelina Victoria Gordon, daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi, on 6 August 1858 in Edgbaston, Birmingham.³ On the night of 7 April 1861 William Ledsam and Merelina Victoria Gordon were enumerated in the census of that year as living at at 9, Chad Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.² William Ledsam died on 7 November 1868 at the age of 35.⁴

     Emma May Lewes Gordon was born on 8 October 1839 in Woolwich.¹ She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Alexander Gordon R.E. and Zébée Anne Rose Touzi. Emma May Lewes Gordon was christened on 20 November 1839 at St. Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kent.² She married Henry Trotter, son of Commissary-General Alexander Trotter, on 2 October 1883 in London.^3,4 Emma May Lewes Gordon died on 11 February 1893 at the age of 53 s.n.p.³