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Re: Nicolaas John vs Nicolaas Gordon
Nicolaas Gordon John would be my choice, but I'd definitely go with Gordon. It's so stylish, and also somewhat Scottish like James. (I know semi=Scottish brothers who are James and Douglas, but James's mn is Gordon.)My friend's ln is Gordon. She's a Jew and they'd always assumed that Gordon was just picked at random by or for some long-ago immigrant; but it seems that after 1745 a lot of Scotsmen left for Europe and joined foreign armies. One of them, a Mr Gordon, ended up in Russia where he married a Jewish lady and presumably converted - there probably weren't that many Scottish Jews in the 18th century! Knowing that has made Gordon much more interesting to me.
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