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Descendants of William Gordon
The earliest we are sure of is my g/g/grandfather William Gordon, born circa 1815 somewhere in Scotland, matriculated Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College) Oxford 1840, married Susan (or Sussanna) Sussex Judd 1841 in Northam, Devon July 17, 1841, migrated to Australia with Judd in-laws sometime around 1857 (we think into Melbourne, and apparently came out in two groups - maybe because of shipping difficulties as the gold rush was on.) Susan was the daughter of Peter Judd and Patience Judd nee Sussex.
William subsequently ran a private school in Camden, NSW. He died died 24 October 1877.
Two children of the marriage were Cosmo Percy Boulderson Gordon born 10 Nov 1841 and Augusta Talbot Mordaunt Gordon born 1843. Cosmo is my g/grandfather.
Father named on William's marriage certificate as Colonel William Alexander Gordon of St George's Hanover Square, London. No further definate information although we suspect he was Colonel (later Lt General) W A Gordon, CB, of Nairn, Scotland, and thereby one of the Croughly Gordons, from near Tomintoul Scotland. No idea of who William's mother was, unfortunately.
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