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Mel P

"my" John Gordon died in 1863, of something liver related, at the age of 51. Good luck with your researches!

Peter

Thanks for the good wishes. 
I already have the John Gordon (from your OP) with birth, marriage, death and children.  His brother, my 2Xgreat-grandfather (Samuel) identified his brother's body after the boiler explosion.  He was 16 (Samuel, that is; John was aged 27 and an engineer).
I have their mother, Margaret née Vernon, baptism, marriage, death, burial; and HER parents James Vernon and Margaret Dixson/Dickson (and at least one brother, James and some of his family).
I have Robert, brother to John and Samuel, birth, marriage, death, burial.
I have the "missing" Margaret from the census JAP posted.  She, too, emigrated (pretty much anyone living (that I have so far found) did).  She was married and had kids.  I have the death and burial information, but not marriage except last name.
Isabella, as posted as a "maybe" in this thread, WAS their sister.  I have her death and burial as well.  (Still looking for the marriage.)
I already had Wallace, long before I found your post, so I have his marriage and death etc, as well.
(I know you're probably not interested in this anymore, as they aren't yours, but some day, someone will come along as I did, so this information is for THAT person.)
I cannot find Mary, James, or Jessie, but haven't expended a lot of time on them yet, as I have so many in my direct line still to correctly source.
Wallace senior, the father, has to have been a pod person (my daughter's explanation for another un-findable relative who married, had kids, died, but has NO birth registration despite it, by then, being mandatory), because all I have ever found for him was his marriage.  No birth or baptism (except a possible who would have been 50-ish at marriage, which would make him abt 70 by the time Samuel was conceived).  No death or burial; yet he has to have died prior to the 1851 census, unless Margaret lied about being a widow.  (Maybe she was a "grass widow".)  He had to have still been living in 1848 to have fathered Samuel, unless that, too, was a lie.  (He IS listed on the certificate as the "lawful son of Wallace and Margaret".)  So, really, there is a small window, but a HUGE world (especially if Margaret lied about being a widow)!

Of course, I also have the generations down from Samuel to me.

Cheers .. and good luck with your own tree building!

I tried to send a private message because, according to https://www.rootschat.com/forum/aboutus.php, "you can contact others by private message".
However, when I attempted to do just that, I got "An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to send personal messages."


I guess I'll just abandon my attempt to link up with this branch of my family. 

I was hoping I had information that the OP (indigobloke) did not have, seeing he seemed to have limited information of only a couple of the brothers, but nobody seems interested at all.