Katherine Forbes Asher (née Gordon)

Youngest daughter of Rev. John Gordon (1758-1827), minister of Duffus, and his wife Isabel nee Lumsden (c. 1834). Married 16/09/1828 Rev. William Asher, minister of Inveravon. Living at the Manse in Inveravon in the censuses 1841-1871. Died at Croft Cottage, Institution Road, Elgin, 05/08/1880. The informant on her death certificate was her son Alexander Asher who became Solicitor General for Scotland. Another of her sons, John Gordon Asher, became a surgeon in Bombay.

Katherine was a major beneficiary of the will of John Gordon of Kingston, Jamaica who died in the mid-1820s. In his will, John Gordon specified that his estates in Jamaica (Cross's Pen, Governor's Mountain and Little Angels, all in St Catherine and with c. 300 enslaved people) be sold for the benefit of his nieces and nephews and Katherine. John Gordon's connection with Katherine is unknown; she may have been a relative as they shared the same surname, but Gordon's will makes no mention of this.

Hew Scott, Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae (1926) vol. 6 pp. 345 and 386. Scotland censuses online. GROS Deaths 1880 135 117.

PROB 11/1753/30.