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Descendants of John Gordon of Scotland and Northern Ireland
Culver Weldon Gordon ancestry
Our Gordon family emigrated from Scotland to Northern Ireland to Canada. They settled at Tweed, Ontario, Canada in 1847. Our earliest documented ancestor is John Gordon of Corrard, Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
John Gordon appears on a flax farmers list of 1796, he is number 219. His wife was Abbie Storey; they had two sons, William born 1788 and Robert born 1793 and two daughters, Jane and Mary. John Gordon once lived at the townland of Drumgoast, near Roslea, County Monaghan. There were many Storeys who lived at Clones, County Monaghan but we could not find a record of Abbie (Abigail?) Storey. A townland is just the name of a farm in Northern Ireland.
John and Abbie’s son, Robert, is our great, great, grandfather. Robert married Jane Hall in1825 and had five children, John, Robert, Andrew, Jane and Mary. Robert died at age 55 of cancer in 1845 and is buried in the churchyard (Church of Ireland, Anglican) at Maguiresbridge. They were Methodists but the Anglican Church conducted all church business. His large headstone is now flat on the ground just to the left of the church entrance, maybe 15 ft. His widow, Jane Hall Gordon emigrated to Canada with her five children and two nephews in 1846. Arriving Canada via New York in 1847 they settled at Tweed, Ontario. Robert’s brother emigrated some years later with his children after his wife died in Ireland.
We are searching for the ancestor who emigrated from Scotland to Northern Ireland. Our great, great grandfather Andrew left a letter stating that he thought the family had lived in Ireland for at least 5 generations.
My brother and I have visited Northern Ireland twice and have visited all the sites where we know our ancestors lived, Corrard at Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh and Drumgoast, Roslea, County Monaghan.
Please get in touch with me if you recognize any of this story.
Margaret Gordon Davies
