James Gordon and George Roger, goldsmiths and jewellers
Over the past couple of months I have been cataloguing two collections the Archive purchased in 2004, with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions : DD748 and DD748. These two accessions are connected to each other, and to the Cochran and MacPherson solicitors collection (reference DD5 ), which they appear to have become separated from at some point in the past prior to DD5 being deposited in the then Grampian Regional Archives in 1982. DD748 had been accessioned as "Goldsmiths of Aberdeen", but when I came to look through the material in detail, this proved to be a little misleading. Yes, some of the papers related to individuals who were goldsmiths, but very few related to their work. (But never fear, we do have some records for the Gordon and Roger jewellery partnership in the Cochran and MacPherson solicitors collection, see DD5/2/A , and in DD747 - more details below). So who were these goldsmiths? Coline Allan, goldsmith and jeweller (1740 ...
