Macaron asked Collette Cameron:

In Passion and Plunder, Lydia calls Gordon Ross uncle and yet Gordon calls Lydia’s father uncle. It’s confusing. And Alasdair says “your father’s nephew”. Sometimes Gordon is said to be Lydia’s mother’s nephew. So my question is: who exactly is Gordon?

Collette Cameron He is both. Often, particularly in clans, people were related to each other in more than one way. That's the case with Gordon. He's Bailoch Farnsworth's nephew and brother-in-law. I based that bit on a real-life relationship in my extended family. I have a cousin who is both niece and sister-in-law to my father. I think of her as my cousin, but I think of her husband as my uncle.

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