Brief Life History of Greta Margaretta
When Greta Margaretta Gordon was born in January 1897, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Robert Henry Gordon, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Sophia Sutherland, was 31. She married Gilbert Grant Potter in 1920, in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died in 1922, at the age of 25, and was buried in Glen Bard Cemetery, James River, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Margretta Gordon in household of Robert Henry Gordon, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Greta Garden, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932"
- Greta Margaretta Gordon Potter, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (2)
1909 · First Canadian Flight
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
Name Meaning
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.
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