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Hi We dont know , untill i started to find out more on the Margaret Okeefe b 1870 ( this written on other members of the Gordon side his brothers to Margarets husband whose family we dont know( Great uncles) they have recorded Margaret Okeefe b in Ireland .The family have only hearsay , I came across the court case 1904 papers past re her first child born out of wedlock married her husband 2 yrs later he was not the father as the family had been led to believe , the child had been put into care as a baby and then claimed by a local tribe and bought up as their own renamed her married her to their tribe very sad ,The child never met her true family and they her but knew about her and believed she was stolen in part it is true she Margaret and her husband in the court case stated they did not have the means to fight the case they must have dropped the case. I found now the name she was given by the Maori people was not the name registered with . This has shaken the family , 123 yrs later rewrite their grandmothers story of the 1st child .I only came about having a detective nose to suss out things The story i found by chance searching papers . and more fell into place . I have a copy of Margaret and Charles Gordon m cert gave the name of her parents .
I dont know where Thomas was b Ireland or NZ i need to research more on this .
Thanks so much for the help