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Gordon, Nancy

Female 1809 - 1837  (~ 28 years)


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  • Name Gordon, Nancy 
    Born Feb 1809  County Monaghan, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 25 Aug 1837  Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I8103  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 19 Nov 2017 

    Family Gillespie, Matthew,   b. 1807, City of New York, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1861, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Married 13 Dec 1827  Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 

    •      According to the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900, an online database hosted by the Illinois State Archives, Matthew Gillespie and Nancy Gordon received a marriage license in Madison County, Illinois or were married on or about 13 December 1827.
    Children 
    +1. Gillespie, David,   b. 30 Sep 1828, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Aug 1881, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2615  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S104] Personal communication, from Thomas G. Allen to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 3 November 2017 via email.
      "Nancy Gordon, Matthew Gillespie’s first wife, was born in February 1809 (in Monaghan County, Ireland) and died 25 August 1837 in Madison County."

    2. [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
      Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "In February, 1827, when he [Matthew Gillespie] was twenty years of age, he, with his brother Joseph, proceeded to the Galena lead mines; from which he returned in the fall of the same year, when he married Miss Nancy Gordon, a sister of the Rev. Joseph Gordon, late of Vandalia. Of this union there was but one child who lived to maturity - the late Judge David Gillespie of Edwardsville."

    3. [S110] Illinois State Archives, Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 [online database] (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/marriage.html - last confirmed in March 2012), Gillespie-Gordon marriage.
      Accessed in July 2013. Matthew Gillespie and Nancy Gordon were granted a marriage license or were married on 13 December 1827. Madison County, Illinois marriage license 00000621; volume 006, page 0016.


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