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Tag: Gordon

A Good Friday sacrifice

Percy Henry Gordon (1885-1912) on Good Friday 1912 a young hero sacrifices his life to save a little girl from drowning in Rochester, Kent

Natalie Mayhew 👥 Beyond the Family Tree, England March 29, 2024June 24, 2026 4 Minutes

Funny Where Life Took Them
Some of the surnames on this site — click one to find stories behind it

Bailey Baker Banfield Banfield aka Wackrill Barrett Baynes Booth Bovill Bowes-Lyon Brevoort Bristow Brock Carson Chaldecott Collingwood Conway-Gordon Coolidge Cooper Cotton Courtauld Daley Dibben Dowman Down Earle Finch Fitzgerald Gordon Hall Harvey Hill Irving Kirby Krug Lane? Levens Mayhew Mayo Napier Obee Payne Poulton Rose Saumarez Sheldrake Todd Twohey Wackrill Whetten

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