Mariah Kidd

Mariah Kidd Gordon from Glenys Mundie Death Cert Mariah (Kidd) Gordon Victoria 1919 aged 89

Mariah was born in 1830.

• Birth Notes

  89 at death in 1919

She died at the age of 89 in 1919.

• Death Notes

  Death cert

• General Notes

  Glenys Mundie <geoff.mundie@bigpond.com>
  date:    29 December 2017 at 18:50
  subject:    Re: image_DeathCertificate_GORDON_Geo_1898.pdf
  Hi Glenys,
  Green with envy here.  Just look at all of that genealogical information!  Lislea, Co Derry clearly given as the home of the Gordons so no doubt there. 
  Yes, less on Maria Kidd's, no parents in particular.  However, a quick check in our BMDs locates Maria and gives her father's name:
  
  30-Apr-1852         
  Parish / District:    MAGHERA        County:    Co. Derry
  Husband        Wife
  Name:    George    Gordon        Mariah    Kidd
  Address:    Lislea Kilrea        Crew Maghera
  Occupation:    FARMER        
  Age:    26        
  Status:    Bachelor (Previously unmarried)        Spinster (Previously unmarried)
  Husband's Father        Wife's Father
  Name:    Thomas    Gordon        William    Kidd
  Address:            
  Occupation:    FARMER        FARMER
  Husband's Mother        Wife's Mother
  Name:                    
  Address:            
  Occupation:            
  Witness 1        Witness 2
  Name:    James    Mckay        Archibald    Graham
  Address:            
  Notes:
  
  William Kidd from Crew, Maghera, is your 3x great grandfather!  A quick google shows that Crew is a townland (rural area) just north east of Maghera. 
  Then to the online land survey of the mid 1850s called the Griffiths Valuation, and we can find the exact location of the Kidd farm; William Kidd held Plots 15A&B, totalling 19 acres:
  
  Griffith's Valuation Record Information
  Tenant
  Family Name 1    KIDD
  Forename 1    WILLIAM
  Landlord
  Family Name 2    MAULEVERER
  Forename 2    BELLINGHAM
  Location
  County    LONDONDERRY
  Barony    LOUGHINSHOLIN
  Union    MAGHERAFELT
  Parish    MAGHERA
  Townland    CREW
  Place Name    CREW
  Place Type    TOWNLAND
  Publication Details
  Position on Page    50
  Printing Date    1859
  Act    15&16
  Sheet Number    32,36
  Map Reference
  
  Sadly, the house is now gone, only a ploughed field remaining, unlike the Gordon home called The Meen in Lislea.
  
  This is the death of your 3x great grandfather, William Kidd:
  
  Name:    William    Kidd    Date of Death:    30-Sep-1864    
  Age:    63    Parish / District:    MAGHERA
  Address:    Crew    County:    Co. Derry
  Status:    
  Occupation:        Sex:    Male
  Graveyard    Informant
  Graveyard:        Relationship:    
  Parish:        Name:    
  County:        Address:    
  Notes:
  
  Although there are no Kidds in Crew in the 1901 Census (the first census we have), there were these baptisms of Kidds in Crew:
  
  Action    Source    Surname    First Name    Year    County    
  View    Church Baptism    Kydd    William    1849    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    John Ellis    1868    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    Margaret Jane    1869    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    Annie Maria    1871    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    Elizabeth    1875    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    Emma York    1876    Co. Derry    
  View    Church Baptism    Kidd    Thomas    1878    Co. Derry    
  
  Oddly, the first one in 1849 was to a William Kidd and a Margaret York, while all of the others were to a Thomas Crew and an Elizabeth York (yes, York again).  Very interesting!  The first could be a brother of your Maria, the others probably the children of another brother of your Maria.  Much more research would be needed to sort that out.
  So, there you go, Glenys, you now have two new homes in Ireland.  You must come and visit soon!
  
  Pam sent me a clipping from an Aus newspaper of 1878 where a court granted maintenance to Maria Gordon because her husband was spending time away from the home; seems he left her.

Details of Mariah's family with George [1898-Victoria,Aus] Gordon