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Descendants of John Gordon of Scotland and Northern Ireland
Culver Weldon Gordon ancestry
Our earliest ancestor that I have found to date is John Gordon born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1763. He married Abbie Storey also born in Aberden, Scotland in 1760. They married and emigrated to Northern Ireland sometime around1782 to 1787.
They probably joined the Gordons at Drumgoast a townland near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. They then moved to a home near Lake Erne and called it Corrard. Later they decided to emigrate to N. America but when Abbie saw the sea she lost heart and they went back to Fermanagh and settled at a place one mile from Maguiresbridge, Cty Fermanagh and named it Corrard also.
Their four children were born Corrord and their names were William born 1788, Robert born 1790, Mary and Jane. Mary was the first of our ancestors to emigrate to the America.
Robert Gordon married Jane Hall both of Maguiresbridge in1825. They had five children born at Corrard. Their names were John, Robert, Andrew, Jane and Mary. Robert died in 1845 and is buried in the Anglican Church yard about 15 feet left on the church entrance. The gravestone is a large brown flat stone.
In1846 the family with two cousins emigrated to Tweed, Ont. Canada. The all sailed aboard the sailing ship the Stephen Whitney from Liverpool to New York.
I have a copy of the ships manifest with all their names, ages and trade on it. They arrived in New York on Nov. 30th 1846. They travelled to Albany and waited there for the St. Lawrence River to freeze over so they could cross into Canada.
Jane’s two sisters families were already established there. Isabel’s husband came to Albany to fetch them. He had a small sleigh and two horses so only four could ride and all the boys had to run alone side in deep snow. The trip took one month to reach Tweed.
They stayed with Jane’s family members already there.
The Gordons became very prominent in this area and later in Winnipeg.
Our GGrandfather was Andrew who became a circuit rider for the Methodist Church and his wife Annie Copp Gordon became one of the most prominent female preachers in Canada. Their children were Abbie, Henry, William, Herbert Andrew my grandfather, Annie and Frederick. Herbert Andrew Gordon, MD married Annie Irene Bowman and had William, Ruth, Jean, Frederick and Mary.
My father was William.
Please get in touch with me if you recognize any of this story.
Margaret Gordon Davies
