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Re: James Gordon
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 23 August 17 11:32 BST (UK) »
Hello Bagibird. I agree the 1911 census entry for Peter Ward Gordon will take you no further than what's already been posted. I'm pretty comfortable that Ward Gordon was with Melville Brown probably as a club maker in which case he would under the Bye-Laws and Constitution of the Professional Golfers' Association at that time have been eligible for membership. If his enlistment papers into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were available for viewing then they would either way confirm his profession. Whizzjoy

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Re: James Gordon
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 23 August 17 11:41 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Whizzjoy on Wednesday 23 August 17 11:32 BST (UK)
Hello Bagibird. I agree the 1911 census entry for Peter Ward Gordon will take you no further than what's already been posted. I'm pretty comfortable that Ward Gordon was with Melville Brown probably as a club maker in which case he would under the Bye-Laws and Constitution of the Professional Golfers' Association at that time have been eligible for membership. If his enlistment papers into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were available for viewing then they would either way confirm his profession. Whizzjoy

I haven't been able to find his enlistment papers yet, but will keep trying. They would certainly be the "silver bullet"!

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Re: James Gordon
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 23 August 17 18:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Whizzjoy on Wednesday 23 August 17 11:32 BST (UK)
Hello Bagibird. I agree the 1911 census entry for Peter Ward Gordon will take you no further than what's already been posted. I'm pretty comfortable that Ward Gordon was with Melville Brown probably as a club maker
If he was born in 1897, he would have been just 13 in 1911, which is rather young to be working as a club maker?
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: James Gordon
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 24 August 17 06:34 BST (UK) »
Is the reason for this post re "Peter Ward Gordon" to verify the comments made here:-

http://www.antiquegolfscotland.com/antiquegolf/history.php3?itemid=87

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http://www.antiquegolfscotland.com/antiquegolf/maker.php3?makerid=270

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Malky

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Re: James Gordon
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 24 August 17 08:28 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Flattybasher9 on Thursday 24 August 17 06:34 BST (UK)
Is the reason for this post re "Peter Ward Gordon" to verify the comments made here:-

http://www.antiquegolfscotland.com/antiquegolf/history.php3?itemid=87

and

http://www.antiquegolfscotland.com/antiquegolf/maker.php3?makerid=270

Regards

Malky

Malky, the owner of that website is one of the people who is working on the PGA project. It may be that we find a reference in a newspaper article, but sadly, they're not always reliable! My husband and I also have a golf history website, concentrating on defunct clubs, but we get a lot of enquiries from genealogists too
www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk
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