Catherine Gordon (née Hering)

Catherine Hering, daughter of Julines Hering of Jamaica and Heybridge.

1. Born 21/08/1763, baptised 25/09/1763 at Westminster. Married John Gordon (q.v.), Collector of Customs at Bristol, 1787. Died 26/12/1840.

2. Catherine's sister Mary Helen Hering married Henry Middleton (1770-1846), one of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence.

3. Catherine's daughter, also called Catherine, married Sir William Miles, 1st Bart, son of Philip John Miles (q.v.).

1. Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 [database online]; Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. 2 pp. 10-13; John Alexander Inglis, The family of Inglis of Auchindinny and Redhall (1914) p. 75.

2. See the Hering Family Papers, 1674-1960, http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hering-Family-papers-1211.00.pdf [accessed 12/03/2013].

3. http://www.inglis.uk.com/11%20the%20american%20branch.htm [accessed 28/03/2011].

We are grateful for the assistance of Madeleine Mitchell in compiling this entry.