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From: "Yolande & Rodney James" <>
Subject: [HM-C&E] John Kirkpatrick GORDON
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:52:04 +1000


Hi, I am new to this mailing list, but not to family history.

John Kirkpatrick Gordon first appears in St Botolph without Aldgate at his
marriage to Jane HARVEY in 1816, according to Pallot's Index. On the parish
registers (of St Botolph without Aldgate) of the baptisms of his first two
daughters (1817 & 1820) he is described as a seaman or mariner. The family
then appears in Filey, Yorkshire. In the parish registers there, he is
described as a seaman ( 1824,1826 & 1828).

On one of his daughters marriage certificates in 1843, he is described as
""Officer in the Customs", now has Lowther added to his middle names, and
his daughter lives in what looks like "No. 8 Tazling Street, Saint Georges
in the East, Middlesex". I cannot find him in the 1841 census at all.

John Kirkpatrick Gordon (now no Lowther) died 12 February 1849, and is
described as a "customs officer". He died in St Pauls, St George in the
East. ( His son John Gordon died, 1887 in Vic, with Lowther as his middle
name.)

So, am I right in thinking he was a customs officer between 1843 and 1849?
If so I cannot find anything in The National Archives for these dates
(online, that is, as I live in Australia). Does anyone have any ideas where
to go from here? I have no idea where he was born which is what I want to
find out right now. I think he was inconsiderate not to have stayed alive
until after the 1851 census. ;-))))

Regards
Yolande James
in sunny Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.


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