If someone is a Solicitor's clerk in Scotland in 1850, then is that similar to an Articled Clerk - ie someone working towards becoming a Solicitor? Would they progress by 1860 to have become a solicitor?
Both the 1863 and 1864 Qld birth registrations have Gordon BLAIR as a Clerk, no mention of Solicitor's clerk.
From the 1900 Qld death for Gordon, his youngest child is the informant, yet Gordon's older son was still alive, and so too was Gordon's widow. Perhaps James William BLAIR was the prominent son.
James William BLAIR, as a legal eagle (as barrister) should have been well trained and experienced in noticing discrepancies in information/evidence, yet it was James William who gave that Gordon was married at age 24 to Julia, in Queensland, and at same time that Gordon was (in August 1900) aged 66 years, 11 months and 4 days. Those two pieces of information conflict. If we accept that Gordon was born 1833, then he turned 24 in 1857, and he was not yet in Queensland, as James William also gives that Gordon was 40 years in Queensland... And then there's the umm.... err... significant ..... error Isobelw found too
If we are to believe all the evidence then both Gordon and his mother Jane had the same parents - John Blair, Hotelkeeper and Jane Dun. This information appears on both the death certificate of Jane in 1882 and that of Gordon in 1900. They can't both be right! There is very strong evidence that Gordon's father was William, not John. His mother Jane's death certificate says she was married to William Blair and the information on the shipping list for the William Miles in 1855 gives William and Jane as the names of the parents of both Jane Kippen and Elizabeth Aitken, sisters to Gordon.
Isobel
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To me, James William's info on Gordon's death cert is based on James William's interpretation of the 1876 marriage certificate (not the registration, but the document handed to the bride at the ceremony) which may have been 'doctored' by others to show a different year for that marriage, or as mentioned in earlier reply, the 24 years may represent the number of years 'ago' that the couple married (1900 less 24 equals 1876).
I still cannot see a solid line joining Gordon in Qld back to Jane Norval in Scotland. I attach a snip from the Glasgow Herald, 11 July 1856 and wonder how the newspaper learnt of the birth, just the day previous, of this baby.... did someone take the info to the newspaper offices? Who were they seeking to inform? Is there any significance to the wording, in particular to the baby's mum being "Mrs Gordon Blair" when the baptism shows James Gordon Blair. Anyways, there's a residential address for Jane Norval in the cutting.
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