Charles Gordon

(Northern District) Born at Clashnore, Glenlivet, 13th April 1813, the son of John Gordon and Jean (Gordon ?); arrived in Valladolid from Aquhorties and Blairs; ordained a priest, 9th June 1838, and left for Scotland, 26th June 1838; because of epilepsy, he had to retire from work, first to Tombae and later to Belgium, where he died at Courtrai, 30th January 1864.

Date	Age	Description
13 Apr. 1813		Born Clashnore, Glenlivet
1826-1829	13	Aquhorties
1829-1833	16	Blairs
11 Sep. 1833	20	Arrived in the College
9 Jun. 1838	25	Ordained a priest, Valladolid
26 Jun. 1838	25	Left for Scotland
1838-1839	25	Keith
1839-1842	26	Chapeltown, Glenlivet
1842-1847	29	Ballogie
1847-1849	34	Retired in bad health to Strichen and Portsoy, suffering from epilepsy
1849	36	Chaplain to Gillespie of Cambus, near Biggar
1849-1850	36	Preshome
1850-1861	37	Tombae, Glenlivet
1861	48	Retired to Courtrai, near Bruges
31 Jan. 1864	50	Died Courtrai, Bruges

Church records have his birth as 10th April 1813 and his baptism as 13 April 1813. According to Ancestry.co.uk, his mother may have been Jean Stuart.

Obituary of Charles Gordon from the Scottish Catholic Directory of 1865.

Pray for the soul of the Rev. Charles Gordon, who died at St Ann’s, Courtrai, near Bruges, in Belgium, on the 31st January 1864, in the 51st year of his age, and 26th of his priesthood.

Mr Gordon was born at Clashnoir, Glenlivat, Banffshire, on 13th April 1813. He was admitted as an ecclesiastical student into the College of Aquhorties, 29th August 1826; passed to the new College of Blairs, 2d June 1829; and was sent, on 27th July 1833, to the Scots College of Valladolid, where he was ordained Priest, 9th June 1838, and immediately returned to Scotland. His first appointment was the Mission of Keith, where he remained till 1839, when he was removed to Chapeltown, Glenlivat. In November 1842 he was sent to the charge of Ballagie, which he held till the autumn of 1847, when being rendered unfit, from confirmed bodily affliction, to take charge of any Mission, he was invalided. In December of that year he went to reside at Strichen in Buchan, and afterwards at Portsoy. In the summer of 1849 he went to act as chaplain in the family of the late Mr Gillespie of Cambus-Wallace, near Biggar, but left it in October of that year for Preshome, and in spring 1850 he went to reside at Tombae, in his native glen. In the summer after the death of the Rev. Robert Stuart, in December 1860, he was sent to Courtrai, near Bruges, in Belgium, where he died at the date mentioned above.