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Looking to trace the living descendants of Tom GORDON who was born in Pocklington, East Riding, Yorks and who later lived in Goole. Living family member Gordon S. is thought to be residing in Rotherham, S. Yorks.

My GORDON family are thought to have originally come from Fife, Scotland.
Earliest known maternal ancestor is William GORDON born in Northumberland, England circa 1801 who settled in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Known places of residence include Market Weighton and Pocklington. The GORDON family were shepherds.

I have longstanding contact with 2 female cousins who live in Oxfordshire.

try looking in members trees, which is under the Search heading, to see if anyone has family in their tree.

Other than that you would need to come forward a bit to give some names you are interested in so we can try to help

Yorkshire Marriages Transcription


First name(s) Tom
Last name Gordon occ drayman
Age 25
Birth year 1869
Marriage year 1894
Marriage date 24 Mar 1894
Marriage place York, St Maurice
Residence 15 Agar Street
Father's first name(s) William
Father's last name Gordon occ shepherd
Spouse's first name(s) Frances Mary
Spouse's last name Scruton
Spouse's age 24
Spouse's residence 74 Monkgate
Spouse's father's first name(s) John
Spouse's father's last name Scruton occ joiner
County Yorkshire (Ainsty & City of York)
Country England
Archive Borthwick Institute for Archives
Archive reference PR Y MAUR 10A

looks like his wife died soon after the marriage

1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
21, Prices Lane, York, Yorkshire, England
Lewis Thomas Head Married Male 32 1869 Railway Goods Porter Elvington, Yorkshire, England Transcription
Jane E Thomas Wife Married Female 29 1872 - Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England Transcription
Reginald L Thomas Son - Male 5 1896 - York, Yorkshire, England Transcription
Tom Gordon Boarder Widower Male 31 1870 Carter Pocklington, Yorkshire, England Transcription


not married long !

First name(s) FRANCES MARY
Last name GORDON
Gender Female
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1871
Age 27
Death quarter 2
Death year 1898
District YORK
County Yorkshire
Volume 9D
Page 35
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Deaths & burials
Collections from Great Britain

Marriages Sep 1901
Gordon Tom York 9d 43
REVELL Florence Christina York 9d 43

1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
17 Close House, Coundon Grange, Durham, England


Tom Gordon Head Married Male Surface Labourer Platelayers 41 1870 Yorks Pocklington Transcription
Florence Christina Gordon Wife Married Female - 34 1877 Yorks York Transcription
Francis Thomas Gordon Son - Male School 8 1903 Yorks York Transcription
Alice Gordon Daughter - Female School 7 1904 Yorks York T

England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription
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First name(s) TOM
Last name GORDON
Gender Male
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1869
Age 73
Death quarter 1
Death year 1942
District PONTEFRACT
County Yorkshire
Volume 9C
Page 215
Country England

for info this seems to be Tom and second wife on the 1939 register

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register

Gordon Household Bishop Auckland U.D., Durham, England
Tom Gordon 1869
Florence C Gordon 1876

no one else in household

the marriage was Florence's first

Births Sep 1876
Revell Florence Christiana York 9d 29

and there were no children with mother Revell born after 1911 census

so Alice is the only child and she had no middle name so might not be easy to trace

Births Jun 1904
Gordon Alice York 9d 37

if the living relation's surname is 'S' this may mean you know the name of Alice's husband ... would have been best to say, if you already knew Tom only had one child and you know whom that child married ...

in that case, the marriage seems to have been 1932 and the birth 1940, and again only the one birth to the marriage?

and yes, there is a matching electoral roll entry that you can find here

http://www.freeelectoralroll.co.uk/

... however, he appears to be listed there (checked against 192.com) only to 2010 so unfortunately may have died beyond the reach of the on-line deaths index (2007)

yes :-(

http://tinyurl.com/hoo268k

his wife is still on the 2015 electoral roll

the family who lit a candle on the obituary page appear to be in-laws and they can be found by searching for the surname in Doncaster

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha?



it isn't clear whether you descend from an ancestor of Tom and are trying to verify his connection, or whether the cousins in Oxfordshire are connected with him ..........

or maybe I'm the only one not quite getting this :-)

Many thanks you for all this information.

I was cautious about revealing full names of possible living relatives. However, one such name is Gordon SUDDOCK of Rotherham who was the son of Alice (Tom's daughter) SCRUTON/SCRUTTON nee GORDON .

My 2 living female cousins in Oxfordshire are descended from Tom GORDON's older brother John GORDON - my maternal great grandfather.

I'll update my tree and then start doing some searches.

understood Prussian, and so I also didn't post the name :-)

(I should have been clearer - I didn't mean to say what Alice's married surname was, just that you knew what it was)

as you see, Gordon S. is now deceased but since his wife is living, I just gave the links for finding her

it seems he did not have children, unfortunately

I now learn that Tom and Florence GORDON also had a son named Francis Thomas who married (details not known) and had no children.

On the 1911 census listed by Shirley it showed a
Francis Thomas Gordon as well as Alice.

Free BMD gave the birth as Dec. 1902 in York. Trying to find it again plus marriages I get nothing. So looked on Genes and found various possibilities.

Do try Genes it may prove helpful.

Births Dec 1902
GORDON Francis Thomas York 9d 8

your search foo temporarily deserted you autumnleaves :-D

there are two marriages in 1940 and one in 1948 for a Francis T

the ones in Swansea and St Albans seem to be accounted for by births in those places

which leaves Durham W in 1948, for which there is no other birth of a FTG to fit

two births in Durham N 1950-1956

Name: Francis Thomas Gordon
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1902
Date of Registration: Sep 1979
Age at Death: 76
Registration district: Doncaster
Inferred County: South Yorkshire
Volume: 3
Page: 0310

Yes Joonie Freebmd was driving me mad - gave me the 1902 birth then later no birth marriage or death grrh.

As the 1911 census as shown by Shirley, listed the family in Durham area, I thought the 1948 marriage may be a good possible- although perhaps a bit late for a first marriage.

On Genes I clicked on all the other various things listed on the left of the screen - there was something about a Railway or platelayers certificate ??? - Will have another look tomorrow as too brain dead now and have no desire for BMD or anything else to wind me up again LOL.

Thanks once again for your continued research on my behalf.

I have taken the opportunity to make a much belated tribute to the passing of Gordon SUDDOCK per the newspaper link above.

I recognise a family connection with Durham as my grandmother Elizabeth GORDON (b. 1901) and mother Elsie May MARTIN nee CRISP (b. 1922) were born in the county.

I have sent a message to a potential match for my earliest known maternal ancestor William GORDON born Northumberland 1801.