When Alice Christie Gordon was born on 27 December 1859, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Gordon, was 33 and her mother, Annie Duncan Frater, was 34. She married Alexander Gillespie on 6 May 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Meadowville, Rich, Utah, United States in 1880 and Fish Haven, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 27 November 1925, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Montpelier City Cemetery, Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, 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).
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