So, I have thoughts. I think the first thing we want to be thinking here is in terms of a medieval, rather than modern information environment. Tolkien's timeline is mythic in scope, but even allowing for some exaggeration there, the battle is very much out of living memory.
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...environment, their having it and even using it doesn't percolate out to a general knowledge and availability of the source until much later. In that context, I wouldn't be surprised that for Gondor - which after all has had bigger problems to worry about...
...that keeping the exact history of the northern kingdom straight just wasn't the top priority. And by the time you realize the information chain is broken, it's too late to repair. In Unfinished Tales, even Saruman and Sauron struggle to get good information on Gladden.
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I find that I am fully in concurrence with your point in general terms (there would be a great deal of ignorance of the history on either side, not withstanding mission of Earnur et al), while still struggling to believe in reference to Isildur specifically.
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The only thing that really surprises me is that, in the absence of hard information, Gondor hasn't made up a bunch of just-so-stories, the way the Romans did with their pre-documentary-legendary-probably-didn't-exist kings.
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