209. Alfred James GORDON (Michael John , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 1890 in New Zealand. He died 1918.

Alfred was a wheelright. He died young in the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving behind a wife and baby daughter.

Alfred married Elizabeth FALLON, daughter of 'unknown' FALLON and Kate KEOHANE. Elizabeth was born 1890 in New Zealand. She died 1970 in New Zealand.

Elizabeth remarried after the death of her husband Alfred and had more children.

210. Albert Joseph GORDON (Michael John , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 1892 in New Zealand. He died 1972.

211. Monica (Mona) GORDON (Michael John , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 1895 in New Zealand. She died 1984.

213. Sheila GORDON (Michael John , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 1908 in New Zealand. She died 2002.

216. Thomas (Tom) MCDONNELL (Eliza Ellen (Lizzie) GORDON , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 17 or 18 June 1897 in prob. Corgarriff, Kilmovee, Co. Mayo. He died 14 Feb 1963 in Swinford, Co. Mayo and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Tom emigrated to the United States as a young man. According to Ellis Island records, he arrived in New York from Liverpool on October 30, 1922. On the ship manifest it's difficult to make out his occupation but it looks like hardware assistant.

Tom's emigration was unplanned. The exact circumstances of his departure aren't known but his possible association with Free State governnment sympathisers (i.e., those who were pro-Treaty) may have led him to flee, even though he himself wasn't known by family to have been a supporter of either the pro- or anti-Treaty camp. In the course of her research, Kathleen Hegarty Thorne, author of They Put The Flag a-Flyin’, an account of the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War as they impacted on Co. Roscommon, came across a report of an incident involving a Treaty supporter whose brother appears to have accompanied Tom to the States a few weeks later. According to Kathleen, a Peter Sharkey who was a pro-Treaty activist from Edmondstown (Kilcolman parish), Ballaghadereen, was shot and badly wounded by anti-Treaty forces in September 1922 for apparently not having complied with an order to leave the area. Ellis Island records list Tom and a Bernard Sharkey together, Bernard giving as his nearest relative at home a brother, Peter Sharkey from Tobracken (in Kilcolman parish), Ballaghadereen. This may well have been the Peter Sharkey who was shot, and it may well be that Tom's possible association with him and/or his brother led to his sudden departure. It would be 20 years before Tom would see Ireland again.

Thomas married Mary (Mamie) LYNCH, daughter of Patrick LYNCH and Catherine MORRISON, in New York. Mary was born 14 Feb 1901 in Binion, Clonmany, Co. Donegal. She died 28 Jan 1970 in Dublin and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

Mamie emigrated to the United States in 1919. Around the late 1950s she and Tom moved back to Ireland.

217. Michael George MCDONNELL (Eliza Ellen (Lizzie) GORDON , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 1904 in prob. Corgarriff, Kilmovee, Co. Mayo. He died mid 1990s.

Michael, who lived with his wife and family at Woodlawn House, Kilmovee, ran the family farm in Kilmovee.

223. Josephine (Jo) GORDON (Cormac , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 18 May 1908 in Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. She died Jun 1985 in Clonskeagh, Co. Dublin and was buried in New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway.

Jo was a domestic science teacher.

Josephine married Gerald COLLEARY on 26 Jul 1939 in St. Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin. Gerald was born 1910 in Ballina, Co. Mayo. He died 11 Sep 1968 in Tuam, Co. Galway and was buried in New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway.

Gerald was headmaster of Tuam Vocational School.

225. Linda GORDON (Cormac , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born Jul 1912 in Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. She died 11 Aug 1986 in Mount Merrion, Dublin.

Linda was a domestic science teacher.

Linda married James (Jim) B. RUANE. James was born about 1914 in Monivea, Athenry, Co. Galway. He died Sep 1976 in Dublin and was buried in Esker Cemetery, Lucan, Co. Dublin.

Jim was professor of agriculture in University College Dublin.

226. Thomas (Tom) GORDON (Cormac , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 9 Jul 1914 in Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. He died 28 Apr 2001 in Roscommon and was buried in Fairymount Cemetery, Co. Roscommon.

Tom ran the Gordon family farm in Kilgarriff.

Thomas married Frances MORRIS, daughter of Michael John MORRIS, in 1947. Frances was born 1918 in Co. Roscommon. She died 2 Jun 2001 in Dublin and was buried in Fairymount Cemetery, Co. Roscommon.

Frances and her husband, Tom, were second cousins once removed; Frances's great-grandmother Bridget Gordon was a sister of Tom's grandfather Thomas Gordon.

228. Patrick (Paddy) GORDON (Cormac , Thomas , Cormac or Thomas , John ) was born 6 Jul 1919 in Kilgarriff, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. He died 9 Jan 1984 in Dublin and was buried in Esker Cemetery, Lucan, Co. Dublin.

Paddy was a bank manager in Lucan, Co. Dublin.

Cormac married Maureen HUSSEY, daughter of Stephen HUSSEY and Mary RYAN, on 4 Sep 1951 in Dundrum, Dublin. Maureen was born 5 Jul 1924 in East Acton, London. She died 19 Mar 1995 in Mount Merrion, Dublin and was buried in Shanganagh Cemetery, Dublin.

Maureen grew up in Barnes in London. She attended school at a small French convent in Barnes and later went to the Sacred Heart Convent in Hammersmith.

By the time Maureen left school (during World War II), she had decided she wanted to be a nurse. After six months of basic training in a hospital in the Hammersmith area, she was assigned to the Navy and spent most, if not all, of her service-time at a naval base in Sherborne in Dorset.

Maureen's parents, having an Irish background, felt that their children would have a much better life if they were to settle in Ireland, so in 1947 Maureen and her sisters moved to Dublin. Within a short time, Cormac Gordon, a friend of hers whom she had first met in London when he worked in the Irish Passport Office, was back in Dublin, working in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Maureen and Cormac would later marry.

After her arrival in Dublin, Maureen began training as a medical laboratory assistant, and after qualifying, worked mainly in Trinity College and also in Dr. Steeven's Hospital. When her mother became ill, Maureen resigned from her job to care for her.

In her later years, Maureen became an active member of the Labour Party; she also devoted more time to writing, a passion of hers since childhood. After her death, family members published two books of her work: a collection of poetry, "The Tug of the Undertow", and a collection of prose and poetry, "Into the Wind".