When Gordon Lightfine was born in 1896, in New York, United States, his father, John Lightfine, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Hatherley, was 23. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1900.
Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which is derived from a place name. It is a matter of dispute whether it referred originally to the Gordon in Berwickshire or to a similarly named place in Normandy. As a given name it seems to have been taken up in honour of Charles George Gordon ( 1833–85 ), the British general who died at Khartoum.
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