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Descendants of Hugh Gordon of Manar: the family of James Gordon (1845-1914) |
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The Family of Hugh Gordon of Manar |
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| The family of Elizabeth (Gordon) Skene | The family of Jane (Gordon) Hunter | The family of James Gordon of Manar |
The family of Hugh Gordon of Manar NSW |
The family of Ann (Gordon) Lumsden | The family of Robina (Gordon) Brickenden | |||||||||||
| Families of John Skene and William Skene | Family of Sir Charles Hughes-Hunter | The family of Henry Gordon of Manar | The family of Mary (Gordon) Fraser | The family of Hugh Hannibal Gordon | The family of William Forbes Gordon | The family of James Gordon | The family of Mary Elizabeth Gordon | The family of Herbert Trevelyan Gordon | The family of Emeline Leslie Gordon | The family of Frederick Pascoe Gordon | The family of Lambert Skene Gordon |
Families of Catherine & Elizabeth Lumsden |
The family of Hugh Gordon Lumsden | The family of James Gordon Brickenden | ||
| 2 families descend from William | 12 families descend from him | 19 families descend from him | 3 families descend from her | 9 families descend from him | 47 families descend from him | 34 families descend from him | 22 families descend from her | 16 families descend from him | 14 families descend from her | 12 families descend from him | 47 families descend from him | 14 families descend from them | 4 families descend from him | 2 families descend from him | ||
The family of James Gordon
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James
Gordon b.27-06-1845 d.22-11-1914 at Young, NSW
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m.
on 09-01-1872 at Bumbaldry
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Eleanor
Jamieson Grant b.11-07-1849 d.04-09-1933
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Arthur
Hannibal James Gordon b.20-10-1872 d.05-03-1942
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Ethel
Mary Gordon b.30-03-1875 d.28-12-1961
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Edward
William Leslie Gordon b.30-05-1877 d.22-11-1965
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Eleanor Daisy Gordon b.10-04-1884 d.04-03-1886 |
Eleanor
Iris Rose Gordon b.26-10-1886 d.23-04-1965
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James
Henry Albert Gordon b.1889 d.09-11-1963
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Marjorie Augusta Gordon b.21-05-1891 d.28-10-1979 | |||||
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married in 1893 at Ryde, Sydney |
married
on 02-04-1903 at Young, NSW
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married
on 02-11-1904 at Crafters, S Australia
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unmarried
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married
in 1916 in Young, NSW
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married
on 12-10-1904 at Young, NSW
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married in 1915 | |||||
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Elizabeth
Jane Marshall b.1879 at Hartley d.1956 Sunbury,Victoria
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Herbert
Edward Barritt b.12-04-1865 d.15-09-1934
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Lucy
McFarlane b.29-12-1877 d.26-01-1978 (age 100)
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Edric
Sidney Scarvell b.30-12-1871 d.25-09-1955
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Ethel
May Batkin b.19-07-1888 d.22-10-1963 at Wagga Wagga
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Francis James Brownlow b.16-10-1984 d.04-04-1959 | ||||||
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James Gordon, son of Hugh Gordon of Manar,NSW
James Gordon, son of Hugh Gordon of Manar,NSW, circa 1898
The descendants and families of James Gordon at the Gordon family reunion held in 1986.
Back row: Nicola Gordon, Jimmy Gordon. Third row: Cheryl Scarvell, Ian Scarvell, Lucy Calder, Judy Refshauge, Lucy Snodgrass (behind), William Refshauge,
Gordon Refshauge, Stephen Refshauge, Jock Snodgrass (behind), Bill Refshauge, Mary Calder. Second row: Andrew Scarvell, Sandy Logg, Chris Scarvell,
Geoffrey (Tig) Martin, Michael Fulham, Libby Fulham, Ann Johnson, Rosemary Burkitt, Anne Snodgrass, Chris Parramore, Richard Gordon, Sue Gordon, Tom Gordon.
Front row: Peggy Scarvell, Gordon Scarvell, Dick Scarvell, Betty Milson, Helen Burkitt, Elsie Bartlett, Allan Gordon, June Gordon, Dick Gordon, Sam Gordon (behind),
Beatrice Gordon, Catharine Gordon (being held by her grandmother).
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The Gordons of Manar in Australia James Gordon James Gordon, third son of Hugh Gordon of Manar, NSW, was born at Manar on 27 June 1845 and educated at Macquarie Fields School. After studying law at the University of Adelaide, he was admitted to practice as a solicitor in July 1869. Later that year he set up in practice in Young where he spent the next 45 years. He worked in partnership with a number of other solicitors for a few years, as well as on his own, finally joining Henry Garling, and later Charles Guigni, in an enduring partnership. James was one of the first aldermen elected at Young, and Mayor for a number of years, and, as a 'free trader,' served two terms in the State Assembly between 1887 and 1889. He was for thirty years President of the Young District Hospital and, in addition, had a number of interests in property in the district. James died at Young on 22 November 1914, and was buried in the Young Cemetery. He married at Bumbaldry on 9 January 1872, Eleanor Jamieson, daughter of John Grant of Bumbaldry near Grenfell. She was born on 11 July 1849 and died at Young on 4 September 1933. They had seven children: 1. Arthur Hannibal James, born in Young on 20 October 1872. He managed properties for his father, but got into debt through drink and gambling. Lost to the family, he died at Liverpool, NSW, on 5 March 1942. He married at Ryde in Sydney in 1893, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Samuel Marshall. She was born at Hartley, NSW, in 1879 and died at Sunbury, Victoria, in 1956. They had, with two other children, a son: 1. Clive Hannibal, born at Newtown in 1919, died in Victoria in 1992. He married a Barrett and had two children. 2. Cherie Grace, born in about 1908. 3. Eleanor Iris, born at Myrtleford, Victoria, in about 1909. 2. Edward William Leslie Gordon was born in Young on 30 May 1877. After working for a few years as a clerk with the Bank of Australasia, he went jackerooing in 1895. He spent a year in 1902 working for William Forbes Gordon at Manar and then started acquiring a number of properties in the Young district, including Glensloy which remains in the family. A successful grazier, he was a member of a number of organisations involving sheep and wool growing, including the NSW Graziers Association and the Young Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Like his father, he was involved in many civic duties in Young and he also served as President of the Young District Hospital. Edward died at Goulburn on 22 November 1965, having married at Crafters, SA, on 2 November 1904, Lucy, daughter of Alan McFarlane of Wellington Lodge, Lake Alexandrina. She was born on 29 December 1877 and died on 26 January 1978 at the age of 100. They had 3 children (click here for more details). 3. James Henry Albert, born in Young in 1889, died on 9 November 1963 and buried in Young Cemetery. He married at Young on 12 October 1904, Ethel May, daughter of Thomas Batkin. She was born on 19 July 1888 and died at Wagga Wagga on 20 October 1963. They had: 1. Maurice Allan, born at Young on 28 November 1920, died at Townsville on 29 December 2003. He married at Proserpine in Queensland on 28 November 1944, Thelma Casey, who was born at Bowen on 16 December 1920 and died on 25 October 2011. 2. Alma Elsie Grace, born at Murrumburrah, NSW, in 1905, died at Canley Vale on 5 September 1997. She married at Orange in 1936, Reginald Anthony Dickerson who was born in 1911. + three others. 4. Ethel Mary, born in Young on 30 March 1875, died at Goulburn on 28 December 1961, married at Young on 2 April 1903, Herbert Edward Barritt, a grazier, of Burrangong, near Young. 5. Eleanor Daisy, born in Young on 10 April 1884, died there on 4 March 1886. 6. Eleanor Iris Rose, born at Young on 26 October 1886, died in Orange on 23 April 1965, married at Young in 1916, Edric Sidney Scarvell. He was a barrister and solicitor in Young who later turned to grazing. 7. Marjorie Augusta, born in Young on 21 May 1891, died at Gilgandra on 28 October 1979, married at Young in 1915, Francis James Brownlow, a bank manager.
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