Quote Originally Posted by MacSpadger View Post
The Jewish Gordon name has been researched by myself here in Glasgow and discussed in this thread.
Gordon was a Jewish name in use Vilna, Lithuania, and Bialystok, Northern Poland. The Hebrew is גורדון and the Russian is Гордон. The name is associated with Litvak Jews and is well documentated in the areas formerly covered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
These Jewish Gordons had no connection with the Scottish Gordons, obviously, as the Scottish Gordons were seen as radical Catholics and we are discussing a time where there was not much toleration between religions.
It must be one of those phonetic anomolies then.