• General Notes

  Source: husband's will.  Her surname came from the birth of her son William Johnston Gordon in 1st Kilrea.
  
  1901 Census:
  Residents of a house 53 in Lislea (Tamlaght, Londonderry)
  Surname    Forename    Age    Sex    Relation to head    Religion    Birthplace    Occupation    Literacy    Irish Language    Marital Status    Specified Illnesses
  Gordon    Thomas    74    Male    Head of Family    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Farmer    Can read and write    English    Married    -
  Gordon    Ann    63    Female    Wife    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Assistant    Can read and write    English    Married    -
  Gordon    Johnston    26    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Works on Farm    Can read and write    English    Not Married    -
  Gordon    James    22    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Works on Farm    Can read    English    Not Married    -
  Gordon    Thomas    24    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Carpenter    Can read and write    English    Not Married    -
  Nelson    James    12    Male    Adopted    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Scholar    Can read and write    English    Not Married    -
  
  1911 Census:
  Residents of a house 42 in Lislea (Tamlaght, Londonderry)
  Surname    Forename    Age    Sex    Relation to head    Religion    Birthplace    Occupation    Literacy    Irish Language    Marital Status    Specified Illnesses    Years Married    Children Born    Children Living
  Gordon    Nancy    73    Female    Head of Family    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Farmer    Read and write    -    Widow    -    48    11    6
  Gordon    Wm Johnson    39    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Farmers Son    Read and write    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  Gordon    Jas Burnside    53    Male    Son    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Farmers Son    Read and write    -    -    -    -    -    -
  Diamond    Margarette    69    Female    Servant    Roman Catholic    Co Derry    Domestic Servant    Cannot read    -    Single    -    -    -    -
  Nelson    Jas    23    Male    Servant    Presbyterian    Co Derry    Farm Labourer    Read and write    -    Single    -    -
  
  GVRBs:
  - George is scored out of Plot 37 to "John (Hill)" in 1870; John is scored out to George in 1872; George is scored out to Thomas in 1874.  I have no idea who John and George are but Thomas is his son.
  - Thomas is scored out to Annie in 1904.  Annie is his wife, Ann "Nancy" Burnside, who gets the farm in his will.
  - Annie is scored out to W. J in 1918; W.J is scored out to "Elizth" in 1921; Elizth is scored out to Robert in 1923, who held Plot 37 until the end of the book in 1929.  This all fits.  Annie died in 1916.  W.J is his son, William Johnston, who was killed when he fell off his bicycle in Kilrea in 1919.  He was married at the time but I cannot find his marriage to see if he had married an "Elizth".  And I do not know who Robert was but W. J would not have had a son old enough to take over in 1923.  Did his brother, Robert, come back from America?
  

Details of Ann's family with Thomas Gordon