Mary Gordon was born on 24 October 1803, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. She married James Gibb about 1821, in Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1841. She died on 4 March 1881, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, 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).
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Possible Related NamesJames Gibb and his wife Mary Gordon Gibb were some of the first to join the Church in their native Edinburgh, Scotland. James was a sailor, and he and Mary were anxious to come to Zion first to prepar …
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