Hi James
Thank you so much for your reply.
I eventually gave up on searching for information. As you can see, my last post was almost 2 years ago.
I asked my father, Eben Roux, to read your reply and he's all excited again. He also remembers your uncle Donald quite well.
The last bit of your reply is spot on as I did alot of research and my information matches yours.
We are still trying to establish where my grandmother, Flora Gordon, was actually born. My grandmother was your grandfather's older sister. The oldest was Isabella though.
Our problem comes in that she never really talked about her childhood, although I do know that most of the children grew up on the farm (Port Nolloth is also mentioned). My father do mention that they went for many visits in Beaufort West on the farm, which he describes as really large.
Your grandfather was born on 7 July 1902 if I am correct then? I don't have the date he died, if you could maybe provide me with that info for a start?
As far as I can gather, you only knew about the sons that was born. The other two were the older daughters, one my grandmother and the other was Isabella.
I also can't find any information about an actual marriage taking place between our great grandfather, George Lancely Gordon and Flora McPherson. This is another confusing part. Unless you or someone else is in possession of a document proving an actual marriage, my grandmother used to say that our great grandparents were (sorry for the Afrikaans) "...getroud met die handskoen...", maybe you know something about that?
Another thing is that my grandmother used to mention that she was born in Inverness. I tried to establish whether there were any records of this but I didn't get very far. Apparently she was bout 7 years old when they came to South Africa (again). That would mean that Isabella was born in SA and Thomas was born in SA. My research at another site confirmed this, as I could find no record of my grandmother, your grandfather, or uncle Donald being born in SA.
Do you have any idea where your grandfather was born?