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Your connection with Scotland in the 1700s, and with pioneers in South Australia in the late 1800s
Jessie & Alexander GORDON - family tree & stories
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 1910 - 1996 (85 years)
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| Name |
Robert Burns Graham GORDON |
| Nickname |
Bob |
| Born |
9 Apr 1910 |
Nurragi  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Notes for biography |
Robert (Bob) was born Nurragi on 9th April 1910. He went to shcool at Bordertown, Aldgate and little Kalkabury. At 13 he left school and went to work on the farm and earned money fixing tractors - a skill he taught himself. He later opened garage in Blyth with his brother Graham where they fixed cars and sold petrol. He married Maida Brown about 1940 at Parkside Methodist church He joined the Airforce during the war and hre he trained pilots and mechanics to repair aircraft engines. After the war he worked in Goolwa on the Barrage. The family lived in Highate and Rosemanty and Marianne were born while the family was here. Then to Gawler where Bob worked for Ron Eyres at a garage. Hugh and Genevieve were added to the family. Marianne died at the aged of 5 yerars. The family lived in Fourth Street in Gawler. Bob bought an old butcher shop in the main street of Gawler and turned it into a garage and set himself up in business. He bought the Wheatsheaf Inn and ran it for several years. On retirement he bought a farm at Wasleys, leaving Genvieve to run the Wheatsheaf Inn. Maida died while the family were at Wasleys. A few years after her death, Bob moved to Lonely Hill where Hugh and his family lived, and he died there on 11th January 1996. |
| Died |
12 Jan 1996 |
| Person ID |
I416 |
Alexander & Jessie |
| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2025 |
| Father |
Lavington Alexander Lindsay GORDON, b. 18 Aug 1877, Torrie Banks, Strathalbyn, SA, Australia , d. 9 Jan 1958 (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Bessie Pearce Graham BURNS, b. 6 Oct 1884, Hyde Street, Adelaide , d. 15 May 1985, Mitcham (Age 100 years) |
| Married |
1 Feb 1908 |
Christian Chapel, Unley, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| Family ID |
F143 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos
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 | Robert Gordon's 80th birthday in 1990 at Wheatsheaf Inn
John Gordon, Jackie Gordon, Robert Gordon, Graham Gordon, Jean Jarrett (nee Gordon), Joan Gordon, Dorothy Wilson (nee Gordon) & Brian Wilson. |
 | Robert Burns Graham Gordon
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 | Robert BG Gordon
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 | Dorothy & Robert
Siblings |
 | Robert, Graham & John
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 | Lav, Bessie, John & Robert (with Dorothy just a dark spot in front of Bessie), about 1927-28
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 | Jean, Graham & Robert with other students at Little Kalkabury School
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 | Lav, Graham, Bessie, Dorothy & Robert in Clare about 1938
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 | Dorothy, Robert, Graham & Rosemary Wall
Who was Rosemary Wall? |
 | John, Graham & Bob
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 | Back are Robert, Jean, Graham, John - Front are Bessie, Dorothy & Lav - in Clare 1937
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