Thomas Gordon & Margaret Ann Bellingham 
Thomas and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony in 1908. They had four daughters named Adeline, Jean, Frances and Anna.
Family Notes
The (April) 1910 US census records them as being married for two years. A search by the New York records Office found no marriage for Thomas Gordon and Margaret Bellingham in Manhattan in 1908, 1909 and 1910.
Found it! Or to be precise, Al Luce found it. It was not in Manhattan, it was in New Jersey because that is where she was living at the time.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=NJEpiscopal&indiv=try&h=900007772
Thomas Gordon in the New Jersey, Episcopal Diocese of Newark Church Records, 1809-1816, 1825-1970
Name: Thomas Gordon
Gender: Male
Marriage Age: 25
Event Type: Marriage
Birth Date: abt 1883
Marriage Date: 24 Jun 1908
Marriage Place: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Father: James Gordon
Mother: Jane Coulter
Spouse: Margaret A. Bellingham
Name: Margaret A. Bellingham
Gender: Female
Marriage Age: 25
Event Type: Marriage
Birth Date: abt 1883
Marriage Date: 24 Jun 1908
Marriage Place: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Father: Thomas Bellingham
Mother: Georgia Mackay
Spouse: Thomas Gordon
AL: Some interesting notes about the marriage record. The marriage was performed at 225 Ege Ave, Jersey City, NJ, the home of Robert Porter and Jane Bellingham Porter, Jane was Margaret's sister. The marriage was performed by a Pastor from a local Episcopal Church, perhaps through a connection with the Porters. I would note that the Episcopal Church is the US analog of the Church of Ireland, to which many of our Bellingham family belonged. The church record was associated with St John's Episcopal Church of Jersey City. That church has since become dormant. There are notes on the web about it being unsafe an slated for demolition but some have had it listed as a historic structure which precludes demolition - politics as usual. There is also a web site with photos of that church. I will note that in the 1910 US Census the Porters were living at 225 Ege Ave, Jersey City.
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Personal Details
Birth Notes
Date of Birth of 24/02/1881 from Al Luce, using US WW1 Draft Registration card. Confirmed by 1901 census where he is 17. I now have his Birth Record which gives his DoB as 21st February 1884 at Lislea, to Thomas Gordon, Farmer, and his wife, Jane Gordon, formerly Coulter; a Mary McKay "Aunt" from Lislea registered the birth and said she was present but she is his great aunt not his aunt.
Civil Birth Record
Name: Thomas Gordon Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1884
Registration Date: 1-Jan-0
Address: Lislea Parish/District: KILREA
Gender: Male County Co. Derry
Denomination: Registrar District
Father: James Gordon Mother: Jane Coulter
Occupation: Farmer
Sponsor 1 /
Informant 1: Mary McKay Sponsor 2 /
Informant 2:
IFHF shows this child born to James Gordon and Jane Coulter:
Source Surname First Name Year County
Civil Birth Gordon John 1882 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Thomas 1884 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Hugh 1886 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Margaret Ann 1888 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Jane Elizabeth 1890 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Annie 1892 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Mary 1894 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Essie Amelia 1896 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Martha Ellen 1899 Co. Derry
Civil Birth Gordon Sarah Matilda 1899 Co. Derry
This shows that my grandfather, Tommy Gordon, had two brothers but both must have died which was why he had to return from New York to tend the family farm in 1920.Death Notes
Title : Mr Date of Death : 24 September 1957
Surname : Gordon Date of Grant : 13 February 1958
Forename : Thomas Reseal Date :
Registry : Belfast Effects : Effects £2383 16s 8d
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Gordon Thomas of Lislea Portglenone county Londonderry retired farmer died 24 September 1957 at Woodland Park Kilrea county Londonderry Administration Belfast 13 February to Margaret Adeline Turner married woman. Effects £2383 16s. 8d.Birth Notes
Given as 18 in 1901 census = birthdate in 1883. Ellis Island records are unclear - entry to usa in 1908 aged either 21 or 24. Ellisislandrecords showed she reentered America on 22nd June 1913, aged 30 with her daughters Adeline, aged 3, and "Jane" (Jean?), aged 1, on board the Cameronia, having left Londonderry on 14th June, on her way to 305, East 91st Street, New York. Kilrea National school gives her as 15 in 1898. Al took the full date from the Civil Records at the General Registry Office, Belfast. I now have her birth record from Letterkenny LRO whic confirms Al's data.
U/1882/31/1005/9/15 Margaret Bellingham 26th July 1882 Female McKay Ballymoney(pre-1973 Q4)
Not in RootsIrelandDeath Notes
Died at Drumaconey
Thomas Gordon
Thomas was born on February 21st, 1884 in Lislea.
Margaret Ann Bellingham
Margaret was born on July 26th, 1882.
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Children
Birth Notes
Date of birth given as 21st September 1910 when she arrives in Ellis Island Records with her mother in 1913 but this can NOT be right because she is recorded in the 15 April 1910 New York census where her age given as 1 year at last birthday. Margaret Knox says her mother's birthday was definitely 21st April because she said she had the same birthday as the queen. For her to be 1 year old in the April 1910 census, she must have been born in 1909, and probably April, if she is telling the truth about her birthday. This is still odd because the census was carried out on 13th April and the age is supposed to be "age on last birthday". And, just to add to the mystery, her mother only arrived in America on 25th May 1908, which barely gives her time to get married, get pregnant and have a child by April 1909!
SORTED!! She did get married almost immediately on arriving. Al Luce found the records at Ancestry.com. Thomas Gordon married Margaret A Bellingham on Wednesday, 24th June 1908 at the Episcopal church in Newark, New Jersey, just a month after arriving in the US. At the time, she was living at 225 Ege Avenue, Jersey City and he was living at 311 N 54th Street, New York.
Nancy Turner, 221114: I'm afraid Margaret (Knox) got it wrong - we only have the place and birth date. When he (John) applied for a job with the M.O.D they went through various background checks. They were able to track down place and D.O.B of his mother as she had no birth certificate. The M.O.D gave John this information - Born 81st Street New York, 21st April 1909.
Birth Notes
Date of Birth from Ellis Island Records entry in 1913.Death Notes
Died exactly two years after Marianne.Birth Notes
517 East 85th Street, Manhattan given as her address on her birth cert.Death Notes
Name: Frances Evelyn Gray
Birth Date: 20 Jan 1917
Date of Registration: Jul 1995
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Bath
Inferred County: Somerset
Register Number: A50C
District and Subdistrict: 3001A
Entry number: 202
Adeline Margaret Gordon
Adeline was born on April 21st, 1909 in Manhattan.
Jean Elizabeth Gordon
Jean was born on July 2nd, 1911.
Frances Evelyn Gordon
Frances was born on January 20th, 1917 in Manhattan.
Anna Georgina Gordon
Anna was born on October 1st, 1920. She died at the age of 92 on March 20th, 2013.
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