Hi Thomas Gordon was born illegitimately in Sunderland in 1863, being baptised on the 19th August, the son of Ann Gordon.
He doesn't appear as Thomas Gordon on the 1871 or 1881 census, but married in Holy Trinity, Sunderland (I haven't seen the certificate, but know the date and venue via Sunderland Registrars), as Thomas Gordon, to Isabella Swallow.
He is then missing again in 1891, but reappears with Isabella and their children in 1901 and 1911 (as Thomas Gordon), and died on the 2nd June 1913, aged 49 years.
I cannot trace him, with his mother, in 1871 or 1881, but an Ann Gordon married a John Scott in St Andrew, Deptford, Sunderland on the 25th December 1866.
She named her father as James Gordon and he named his father as Robert Scott, but can't find either of them prior to, or after, their marriage.
Can anyone trace them?
Sue
