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Descendants of Hugh Gordon of Manar: the family of James Henry Forbes Gordon |
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The Family of Hugh Gordon of Manar |
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| The family of Elizabeth (Gordon) Skene | The family of Jane (Gordon) Hunter | The family of James Gordon of Manar |
The family of Hugh Gordon of Manar NSW |
The family of Ann (Gordon) Lumsden | The family of Robina (Gordon) Brickenden | |||||||||||
| Families of John Skene and William Skene | Family of Sir Charles Hughes-Hunter | The family of Henry Gordon of Manar | The family of Mary (Gordon) Fraser | The family of Hugh Hannibal Gordon | The family of William Forbes Gordon | The family of James Gordon | The family of Mary Elizabeth Gordon | The family of Herbert Trevelyan Gordon | The family of Emeline Leslie Gordon | The family of Frederick Pascoe Gordon | The family of Lambert Skene Gordon |
Families of Catherine & Elizabeth Lumsden |
The family of Hugh Gordon Lumsden | The family of James Gordon Brickenden | ||
| 2 families descend from William | 12 families descend from him | 19 families descend from him | 3 families descend from her | 9 families descend from him | 47 families descend from him | 34 families descend from him | 22 families descend from her | 16 families descend from him | 14 families descend from her | 12 families descend from him | 47 families descend from him | 14 families descend from them | 4 families descend from him | 2 families descend from him | ||
The family of James Henry Forbes Gordon
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Gladys Noel Lydia Bowker b.25-12-1886 d.May 1949 at Goulburn |
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on 17-08-1912 at Woollahra
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James
Henry Forbes Gordon b.24-08-1884 d.20-05-1963 in Sydney
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m.(2) in 1953
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Daphne
Kathleen English d. in 1968 in Ryde, Sydney
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James
Hamilton Gordon b.27-05-1913 d.25-04-2000
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Philippa
Mary Hope Gordon b.24-12-1914
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Rosemary
Beatrice Gordon b.27-09-1916 d.18-01-1973
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John
Forbes Gordon b.22-10-1917 k.i.a. 19-11-1942 in New Guinea
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David Ryther Gordon b.03-11-1919 d.03-02-1994 |
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unmarried
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Robin
Morgan Curtis b.05-08-1917
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Victor
Ivor Vickers b.01-08-1904
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Francis Leonard Bligh b.15-11-1911 d.09-10-1987 |
Tempe Dorothy Mervyn Minter b.11-03-1927 d.26-12-1993 at Bungendore
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The Gordons of Manar in Australia James Henry Forbes Gordon James Henry Forbes, son of William Forbes Gordon, was born at Manar on 24 August 1884. He was very much involved in the running of Manar following the death of his father and later acquired other properties in the Bungendore district, including Werriwa from his brother in 1912. He was a very successful grazier and by 1927 had 20,000 acres near Cooma and was shearing more than 20,000 sheep a year. He spent his last years on a small property at Exeter and died in Sydney on 20 May 1963. He married: (i) at Woollahra on 17 August 1912, Gladys Noel Lydia, daughter of Dr Robert Steer Bowker. She was born at Darling Point on 25 December 1886 and died at Goulburn in May 1949. They had: 1. James Hamilton, born on 27 May 1913. Educated at the King's School, he became a grazier at Werralong near Cooma and at Werriwa in the Bungendore district, He served with the RAAF in the 2nd World War, mainly in No. 31 Beaufighter Squadron as a flight commander, and was twice mentioned in despatches. Jim was an accomplished skier and one of the pioneers of downhill skiing in Australia. He retired from the land and went to live in Canberra in 1986. He died there on 25 April 2000. James married, on 12 September 1940, Robin Morgan Curtis, and had: 1. Andrew James, born 27 May 1947, educated at Cranbrook School in Sydney and the University of Sydney where he resided at St Paul's College. A freelance journalist, he married on 21 June 1969, Athalie Anne Goldsmith. 1. Andrew James, born 20 November 1971. 2. Charles Hugh, born 16 February 1974. 3. Jeremy John, born 21 November 1979. 4. William Templeman, born 23 August 1985. 2. Curtiss John, born 25 August 1950, educated at Cranbrook School and the University of Sydney where he obtained degrees in economics and law. A solicitor, he joined the law firm, Blake Dawson Waldron in Sydney. John married on 9 December 1972, Pamela Elaine Somervaille. They have: 1. Nicholas John, born 31 July 1976. 2. Peter Robert, born 22 December 1978. 3. Michael James, born 12 June 1981. 3. Angus Hugh, born 12 November 1959, educated at Cranbrook School and the University of Sydney, graduating with a degree in economics. 2. John Forbes, born on 20 October 1917 and educated at Cranbrook School where he excelled in all sports, particularly cricket. He worked as a jackeroo in NSW and Queensland before joining the AIF on the outbreak of war. He sailed for the Middle East on Christmas Day 1940 and served briefly in Egypt before being chosen to undergo officer training. Passing out as a lieutenant in December 1941, he was posted to the 2/33 Infantry Battalion, with which he saw action in Syria before returning to Australia early in 1942. He was sent to New Guinea and took part in the Kokoda campaign which ended at Buna and Gona where he was twice wounded. John was killed in action on 19 November 1942 whilst on patrol with his platoon. He was buried at Saputa but after the war his remains were transferred to the Bomana War Cemetery in Port Moresby. 3. David Ryther, born on 3 November 1919 and educated at Cranbrook School where he excelled at sport, particularly rugby union football and tennis, and where he was school captain in his last year. On the outbreak of war he joined the AIF and he served with the 7th Australian Division in the Middle East. Returning to Australia in March 1942, he was seconded to the 2nd Australian Army HQ. Later he served in New Guinea and Borneo, reaching the rank of brigade-major. After the war, David took up grazing on one of the family properties, Birkenburn near Bungendore. Birkenburn had been acquired by the Gordons in the 1890s and up to 1950 was part of Werriwa. David died in Sydney on 3 February 1994, having married at Darling Point on 2 November 1951, Tempe Dorothy Mervyn, daughter of Mervyn Minter. She was born in Sydney on 11 March 1927 and died at Bungendore on 26 December 1993. 1. Robert David Henry, born 12 September 1956, succeeded to Birkenburn. He has sub-divided part of the property into 40 acre lots for sale as hobby farma. 2. Thomas William John, born 18 April 1959, a landscape designer. He has two sons, Pascal, born in 1989, and Archie, born in 1999. 3. Petrina Roseanne, born in Sydney on 13 March 1953, married at Bungendore in 1976, Andrew Stewart Hope Balmain of Larbert, Braidwood. 4. Amanda Ruby, born in Sydney on 23 May 1954. 4. Philippa Mary Hope, born 24 December 1914, married Victor Ivor Vickers, a grazier. 5. Rosemary Beatrice, born at Edgecliff in Sydney on 27 September 1916, was educated at Ascham in Sydney and Frensham in Mittagong. Rosemary was a brilliant and dedicated gardener and wrote a number of books on the subject, including Cherish the Earth (the story of gardening in Australia) and Down to Earth, which was published in 1968. She was an overseas fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society and visited nursery gardens on trips abroad. Rosemary died of cancer in Goulburn on 18 January 1973, having married at Bungendore on 1 March 1941, Francis Leonard Bligh, a grazier of Pejar Park, Woodhouselee. James Henry Forbes Gordon married (ii) in Sydney 1953, Daphne Kathleen, daughter of Frederick English. She died at Ryde in Sydney in 1968. There was no issue from this marriage.
Account kindly provided by 'Mac' Gordon (aka Hugh McLeod Gordon, gt-grandson of Lambart Skene Gordon, and gt-gt grandson of Hugh Gordon of Manar,Braidwood, NSW)
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