I realise this is a way old thread, but I only discovered it a few days ago when doing a search for my 2Xgreat-Grandfather, Samuel Gordon, born Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, 1849. He and his brother, Wallace Gordon, married in New South Wales, then moved to Queensland (where they died; Samuel in 1925 and Wallace in 1903). "MY" Wallace Gordon was born 1842-ish (death registration information) to Wallace and Margaret Gordon. This would make him the son mentioned here:
And finally ...
From the Wigtownshire Free Press BDMs at:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~leighann/wfp/intro.html
GORDON, Male - B26/2/1843 - At Newton-Stewart, on the 26th ultimo, Mrs Wallace Gordon, of a son.
I have found that, not only did Samuel and Wallace emigrate, the brothers and sister mentioned in this thread also emigrated
and so did their MOTHER. (She died in the Concord district of NSW in 1873.)
This family was pretty much a brickwall for me until the other day, because I was working from my mother's notes which had Wallace marrying the sister of Samuel's wife. But I have cleared that up and Samuel's sister-in-law married a Peattie, not a Gordon. It was a totally different Catherine McCrea who married Wallace. (I'm fairly sure that Wallace and Catherine were childless, but I have to admit my research on that line has been sketchy as Samuel and Minnie had 10 kids and tracking
them down has been my focus.)
What I am hoping for by making this humongous (first) post is (a) that user JAP is still around nd still interested in the outcome of this particular search by indigobloke and (b) that indigobloke is still around because it looks as though we are cousins.
Please let there be somebody "out there" still.
