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AMBLY
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Re: Flora McPherson/Gordon b. Inverness?
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 16 October 08 10:38 UTC (UK) »
And just to jolly things along.... Grin  Grin  Grin

2nd battalion Seaforth Highlanders:
http://www.victorianwars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=186

Feb. 1897 To Dover
Jun. 1897 To London for Diamond Jubilee
Jan. 1899 To Fort George
21.10.1899 Leave Glasgow in S.S. ‘Mongolia’ for South African War.
18.11.1899 Arrive Cape Town
1899-1902 South African War. Served in Highland Brigade. Battle honours: PAARDEBERG, SOUTH AFRICA 1899 – 1902
1902 Transvaal, South Africa

I checked FMP - GORDON's to South Africa 1901 to 1920.
Lots. And not one of them with a first name of initial. Most with no approx yob - just "unknown"  or "adult" etc. All left from English ports Southampton or Liverpool...... Cry


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Re: Flora McPherson/Gordon b. Inverness?
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 16 October 08 10:55 UTC (UK) »
I checked FMP yesterday - 1890-1914 for M*cpherson and Gordon variation - nothing at all that looks promising.

Renata ~ you say that you have a tree which your father gave you. Do you know who drew it up and their sources?

Also, I'm not sure of the SA BMD records but I think I would be getting the death and marriage certs for Flora and her siblings and the birth certs of the later  siblings who were born SA.

This would give you more firm evidence. At the moment we seem to be looking for any Gordon/M*cpherson birth in Scotland  Undecided


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Re: Flora McPherson/Gordon b. Inverness?
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 16 October 08 11:12 UTC (UK) »
Just a thought.....

Regarding the 4 NAAIRS records 1929 to 1931 naming Flora Gordon (born McPherson), and one of them also naming George McPherson GORDON.....

I wonder if  there any way this information may have been given by someone other than Flora herself, someone who thought her maiden name was McPherson..........do you know when your Gt-grandmother died?

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Re: Flora McPherson/Gordon b. Inverness?
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 16 October 08 13:21 UTC (UK) »
The date I was given on the tree is 25-10-1939.

I stumbled across a South African site with quite a few BMD's Ambly. What I found really interesting is that it covered a whole lot of the McPhersons for the time and area where my g grandmother is supposed to have came from but no sign of her or her parents.

The document I found and mentioned earlier refers to a piece of land there though and my gg grandparents supposedly got married there but I still can't find any record of it.

Neither side seems to make any sense now except for the fact that my g grandmother is specifically referred to being a Gordon b. McPherson in the document I found yesterday.
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