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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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 1925 - 2017 (92 years)
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| Name |
Dorothy Champion GORDON |
| Born |
17 Feb 1925 |
Kadina  [1] |
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| Gender |
Female |
| Notes for biography |
Dorothy was born in Kadina Hospital in 1925 while the family was living at Tiperra. Her childhood jobs on the farm were collecting sticks for the fire and to pushing out grain from the header after the wheat had been reaped. She went to Little Kalkabury school. The family attended the Sunnyvale Methodist church with Sunday School picnics at Moonta Bay. When Dorothy was 8 the family moved to Clare and they lived at Mills Street, then Charles Street. They attended the Salvation Army, then the Clare Methodist church. Dorothy went to Clare Primary School until aged 13 when the family moved to Wayville. Dorothy left school to help her mother run a guest house - she did cleanng, dishes, making beds and waiting on tables. She went to Youth for Christ group at Wayville and attended Bible Standard Mission. At 17 years in 1942, she attended Muirden College where she did a stenographers course. She walked from the Wayville house - she was there for about two years. In 1944 she worked at the GPO for three months and then at the Rationing Commission, then at South Australian Rubber Mills - she worked there until 24 years old. In those years Dorothy met Brian Wilson through Youth for Christ. They married in 1950 and lived at Gardner Street in Plympton. She worked at S Kidman & Co (pastoralists) as a secretary until the end of 1954. She had Barbara in 1955 and Geoffrey in 1958. The family moved to NSW in 1962 and Paul was born there in 1965. She had a part-time job cleaning a kindy. In 1972 the family moved to Western Australia where six grandchildren were born. Dorothy did some supervising at university. [2] |
| Died |
24 Nov 2017 |
Forrestdale WA |
| Buried |
4 Dec 2017 |
Carrington Rd Fremantle |
| Person ID |
I419 |
Alexander & Jessie |
| Last Modified |
12 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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 | 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. |
 | Dorothy & Robert
Siblings |
 | Dorothy - sitting
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 | Dorothy - looking
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 | Dorothy - hanging washing
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 | Dorothy - hanging washing
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 | Dorothy & John about 1925
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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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 | Bessie, Dorothy & Graham about 1930
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 | Dorothy & Mary-Jean about 1928
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 | John & Dorothy in August 1930
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 | Dorothy, Clem Coote & Max Stains
Photo taken at Harry Coote's farm at Cunliffe, Sunnyvale, Tiparra. |
 | Lav, Graham, Dorothy, Ella Miethke, John & Bessie about 1931
Ella Miethke was Graham's tutor when he was in hospital with hip problems. |
 | John, Gay Burns, Bessie & Dorothy at Police Barracks
* John was based in the Police Barracks - in which town?
* Was Gay a sister of Bessie? |
 | Lav, Graham, Bessie, Dorothy & Robert in Clare about 1938
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 | Dorothy, Robert, Graham & Rosemary Wall
Who was Rosemary Wall? |
 | Back are Robert, Jean, Graham, John - Front are Bessie, Dorothy & Lav - in Clare 1937
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 | Brian Wilson & Dorothy nee Gordon
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 | Sarah Burns, Joan Gordon, Lettie Pentelow, Dorothy Gordon, Bessie Gordon, Graham Gordon with Elizabeth
* Who was Graham Gordon?
* Who was Elizabeth? |
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 | Dorothy and Bessie
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| Sources |
- [S67] 'The Gordons' by Nathalie Semmler & Colin Semmler, 1997, p41.
- [S75] Barbara Regan, nee Wilson - scrap book - see STORIES directory, From Barbara's family history scrap book.
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