Overview
"Every line of strength in American history is a line colored with Scottish blood." President
Woodrow Wilson. The House of Gordon has a proud heritage and history in Scotland and
throughout the world. Scotland has given the world so much from the very foundations of our
American freedoms to a myriad of inventions. The Gordons have played a large part in the
history and culture of Scotland and America as well as many other countries!
Genealogy -- TODD
Todd, Tod Distribution Maps 1850-1990
Distribution maps are a valuable tool in understanding the immigration, migration
and population growth patterns of a surname within the United States as
recorded on the censuses.
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Todd Surname
Tod Surname
The Todd family was first found in Berwickshire where they were seated
from early times, and moved into the Aberdeen/Grampion area with the
Gordons. The English family, Fox, is descended from the Todd family.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Robert Todd
settled in Virginia in 1622; George and Mary Todd settled in Virginia in 1650;
William Todd settled in Virginia in 1651. The Todd surname derives from the
Scots Gael word tod, which means fox and was often used to denote a person
with red hair or with fox-like qualities such as quick wit, cleverness, and wiliness,
or a fox hunter. Our particular family story is that the first Tod(d) was a Gordon
with red hair and a wily nature good at tracking, but not being tracked. He was
called the Tod, because he was sly like a fox. We don't know if it is true, but it
makes a good story. Two of the most noted of the Todd family are the biochemist
Alexander Robert Todd, Barron Todd who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1957, and the geometer, John Arthur Todd.
