When John Bisset Gordon was born on 25 December 1851, in Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Gordon, was 44 and his mother, Isabella Jessie Bisset, was 27. He married Ruth Evelyn Atkin on 10 September 1877, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Applecross, Ross-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851 and Election Precinct 1 Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1900. In 1920, at the age of 69, his occupation is listed as attorney in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States. He died on 2 August 1926, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, 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.
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