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Yes Rootgather - all correct!

John's parents were William Gordon, a farmer and Bridget McKean, both deceased.

Can you give us the names of John Gordon's parents please? They will be on his death certificate if the informant knew the details.

Is this your James please?

1861

Name: James Gordon
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
Relationship: Son
Mother's name: Mary Gordon
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland
Registration Number: 652/2
Registration district: Old Monkland Middle District
Civil Parish: Old Monkland
County: Lanarkshire
Address: Buchanan Street
Occupation: Iron Puddler
ED: 6
Household schedule number: 87
LINE: 17
Roll: CSSCT1861_118
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary Gordon 48
James Gordon 23

Do you mean that James b. 1836 died in Middlesborough, Yorkshire in 1874 please?

Thank you - although would James Gordon's death index give his age at death? It does annoy me the seperation between the statutory documents in GB.

Anyway, thanks Ann but James (my ancestor) was the son of John and Mary, not Ellen.

Thank you though - any other ideas?

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Name: James Gordon
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 30 Nov 1845
Christening Place: CRUMLIN,DUBLIN,IRELAND
Father's Name: John Gordon
Mother's Name: Ellen Callaghan
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C70094-1 , System Origin: Ireland-ODM , GS Film number: 0990093 IT 4

Name: James Gordon
Spouse's Name: Ann Smith
Event Date: 29 May 1865
Event Place: Old Monkland,Lanark,Scotland
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M11652-1 , System Origin: Scotland-ODM , GS Film number: 6035516

Without doing in-depth research, it's impossible to say

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The names are so common, I don't envy you

Hi there - my ancestor, named GORDON, lived in Coatbridge in the 1850s/1860s. My ancestor James Gordon (b 1836 Ireland - d 1874 Middlesbrough) married in Coatbridge RC Church in 1865.

His father John Gordon (1788 - 1861 at Coatbridge) died at an explosion at the Dundyvan Iron Works in Coatbridge and the inquest described him as John Gordon or John McGurnen.

I suspect he was an Irish immigrant named McGurnen and changed his name to Gordon, a traditional Scottish name, to 'fit in'.

However, I've found this GORDON who also worked at Dundyvan Iron Works and lived in Coatbridge - do you think there might be a connection?

Thanks,

Peter

A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.
ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE. There has just died, at his residence in Coatbridge, a well-known townsman, named James Gordon. Generally believed, says the Glasgow Herald, to be descended from the stock of the Oordons of Lochinvar or Ken more, 44 Young Jamie
23 October 1875 - Western Daily Press - Bristol, Bristol, England