When Robert Boaz Gordon was born in 1800, in Chester, South Carolina, United States, his father, Alexander Gordon, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Lee, was 35. He married Milly Pitts in November 1819, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lick Mountain, Conway, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died on 3 August 1853, in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, Conway, Arkansas, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names1800 - 1853 Robert was born in 1800 Chester County SC to Alexander Gordon & Sarah Lee. His father fought in the Revolutionary War enlisting Aug 11, 1782 as a private in the 1st SC regiment for a perio …
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