December 4, 2003
Descendants of Alexander Gilmer First Generation 1. Alexander GILMER [1] of Sion Hill in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland was born in 1735. [2] Alexander married Elizabeth BIRCH on 14 March 1760. [3] Elizabeth was born on 16 October 1733. [4] She was the daughter of John BIRCH and Miss BAXTER . Elizabeth married firstly William BREAKEY on 3 March 1758. [5] Elizabeth died 28 June 1812. [6] Alexander GILMER and Elizabeth BIRCH had the following children: 2 i. Alexander GILMER [7] . He was an officer of the East India Company and fought at Seringapatam. [8] + 3 ii. Eleazer Birch GILMER was born circa 1763 [9] and died 29 July 1834. [10] + 4 iii. John GILMER was born on 26 September 1764. [11]
Second Generation 3. Eleazer Birch GILMER [12] was born circa 1763. [13] He was a captain of the East India Company and fought at Seringapatam. [14] Eleazer married his first cousin Rachel BIRCH on 14 April 1799. [15] Rachel was born circa 1777. 16] She was the daughter of James Jackson BIRCH and Mary KING . Rachel died 14 August 1831. [17] Eleazer died 29 July 1834. [18] Eleazer Birch GILMER and Rachel BIRCH had the following children: 5 i. Alexander G.B. GILMER was born circa 1800. [19] Alexander died 31 December 1822. [20] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [21] 6 ii. Eliza Jane GILMER . Eliza married Adair BLACK of Dublin, Ireland on 5 September 1825 in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [22] 7 iii. Ellen GILMER was born circa 1807. [23] Ellen died on 19 October 1824. [24] She was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [25] + 8 iv. James Birch GILMER was born circa 1808 [26] and died 8 March 1877. [27] 9 v. Wellington GILMER was born circa 1810. [28] Wellington died 29 January 1822. [29] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [30] 10 vi. Rachel GILMER was born circa 1813. [31] Rachel died 17 November 1826. [32] She was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [33] 11 vii. Caroline GILMER was born in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland on 23 July 1818. [34] Caroline died 5 February 1825. [35] She was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [36] 12 viii. Wilson Mills GILMER was born in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland on 13 October 1823. [37]
4. John GILMER [38] was born on 26 September 1764. [39] John GILMER had the following child: + 13 i. Samuel GILMORE . Third Generation 8. James Birch GILMER was born circa 1808. [40] James married Mary DOAK on 24 April 1838 in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [41] Mary was born circa 1809. [42] Mary died 9 November 1882. [43] James died 8 March 1877. [44] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [45] James Birch GILMER and Mary DOAK had the following children: 14 i. Eleazer Birch GILMER was born in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland on 27 February 1839. [46] Eleazer died 6 May 1869. [47] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [48] 15 ii. Isabella Mills GILMER was born circa 1840. She was baptized on 6 December 1840 in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [49] 16 iii. Wilson Mills GILMER was born circa 1841. [50] Wilson died 11 June 1871. [51] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [52] 17 iv. Samuel Doak GILMER was born in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland on 13 August 1842. [53] Samuel died in infancy. [54] He was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [55] 18 v. Eliza Doak GILMER was born in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland on 23 July 1843. [56] Eliza died in infancy. [57] She was buried in the Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [58] + 19 vi. James Birch GILLMER was born in 1846 and died 1 June 1927. [59]
13. Samuel GILMORE birth date unknown. Samuel married Jane COULTER . [60] She was the daughter of John COULTER and Jane BARTLEY . Samuel GILMORE and Jane COULTER had the following children: + 20 i. Samuel GILMORE . 21 ii. George GILMORE . He emigrated to America. [61] 22 iii. David GILMORE . He emigrated to America. [62] 23 iv. Mary Jane GILMORE . She emigrated to America and married a Frenchman. [63] 24 v. Martha GILMORE . Martha married Rev. Robert John TWEED [64] of Altnamackan, Co Armagh, Ireland. Robert died 29 October 1943 at his residence, Seaview, in Warrenpoint, Co Down, Ireland. [65] He was buried 31 October 1943 at Knotty Ash Cemetery in Rostrevor, Co Down, Northern Ireland. [66] + 25 vi. Eliezer GILMORE was born on 1 November 1845 [67] and died in August 1919. [68] + 26 vii. Eliza Emily GILMORE was born on 25 April 1846 [69] and died 8 March 1938. [70] + 27 viii. Esther GILMORE was born on 23 September [71] and died 30 October 1900. [72]
Fourth Generation
19. James Birch GILLMER was born in 1846. James married Mary McCREIGHT . Mary died 18 March 1884. [73] She was buried in Dromara First Presbyterian graveyard in Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [74] After the early death of his wife, James emigrated to New Zealand with his infant daughter. James died 1 June 1927 in Auckland, New Zealand. [75] He was buried at Hillsborough Cemetery in Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand. [76] He is also remembered on the family memorial at Dromara First Presbyterian Graveyard, Dromara, Co Down, Ireland. [77] James Birch GILLMER and Mary McCREIGHT had the following child: 28 i. Mary GILLMER . 20. Samuel GILMORE birth date unknown. Occupation: doctor in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland. [78] Samuel married Georgina HENRY on 1 October 1863 in Warrenpoint, Co Down, Ireland. [79] She was the daughter of John HENRY . Samuel GILMORE and Georgina HENRY had the following children: + 29 i. Mary Anne Henrietta GILMORE was born on 6 August 1864 [80] and died 7 October 1936. [81] 30 ii. Samuel James GILMORE was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland on 22 August 1866. [82] Occupation: doctor in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England. [83] + 31 iii. Jane Amelia Coulter GILMORE was born on 2 December 1869 [84] and died in 1940. [85] 32 iv. Acheson George Henry GILMORE was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland on 6 June 1874. [86] Acheson worked as a junior in the Tientsin branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank from 1898 until his death. [87] Acheson died 29 January 1907. [88] 25. Eliezer GILMORE was born on 1 November 1845. [89] Eliezer married Sarah JACKSON on 3 February 1874. Sarah was born on 1 April 1848. [90] She was the daughter of David JACKSON and Eliza OLIVER . Sarah died 24 July 1942 in Freeduff, Parish of Creggan, Co Armagh, Ireland. [91] Eliezer died in August 1919. [92] Eliezer GILMORE and Sarah JACKSON had the following children: 33 i. Samuel GILMORE . [93] From 1898 to 1903 Samuel worked as a junior in the Shanghai branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. [94] He was later Chairman of the Stock Exchange in Tien Tsin, China. Samuel married his first cousin Elizabeth BROWN . [95] Known to family and friends as Bessie, she was born on 2 November 1870 in Cooloch and Drumcondra, Co Dublin, Ireland. [96] She was the daughter of Thompson BROWN and Elizabeth JACKSON . Bessie and Samuel had no children. Bessie died circa 1942 in Tien Tsin, China. [97] Samuel died circa 1942 in Hong Kong. [98] + 34 ii. Mary Jane GILMORE was born on 29 January 1876 [99] and died 4 September 1907. [100] + 35 iii. David GILMORE died 17 August 1959. [101] 36 iv. Elizabeth Oliver GILMORE was born on 3 October 1882. [102] Elizabeth died 16 July 1899 at Liscalgot House in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, Ireland. [103] + 37 v. Ethel Sarah GILMORE was born on 16 March 1885 [104] and died in 1982. [105] + 38 vi. Thomas Jackson GILMORE was born in 1887 [106] and died 8 June 1939. [107] 39 vii. Edith Eileen GILMORE was born on 27 January 1890. [108] Edith married William George RYDER in 1930. [109] William died in 1978. [110] Edith died 25 January 1977. [111]
26. Eliza Emily GILMORE was born on 25 April 1846. [112] Eliza married Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON on 1 August 1876. Andrew was born on 8 April 1846. [113] He was the son of David JACKSON and Eliza OLIVER . Occupation: farmer in Trim, Co Meath, Ireland. Andrew died 29 October 1929. [114] Eliza died 8 March 1938. [115]
Eliza Emily GILMORE and Andrew Coulter Bradford JACKSON had the following children: + 40 i. Jane Coulter JACKSON was born on 17 August 1877 [116] and died 4 July 1975. [117] + 41 ii. Thomas Dare JACKSON was born on 5 May 1879 [118] and died 17 June 1961. [119] 42 iii. Andrew Hugh Gilmore JACKSON was born on 9 April 1881. [120] In 1916 Andrew was working at Wright & Hornby in Hong Kong. [121] Andrew died 31 January 1918. [122] 43 iv. David JACKSON was born on 20 November. [123] David worked for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, commencing in the London office in 1904 before traveling to the Far East to join the staff of the Hong Kong office in June 1908. In 1910 he moved to the Shanghai office before returning to Hong Kong in 1914. Two years later he worked in Calcutta, India before being transferred to Kobe, Japan in 1917. He went on 12 months leave in July 1921, and his service was terminated when he failed to return from leave. [124] David died 12 September 1925 at a nursing home in London, England. [125] + 44 v. Elizabeth Oliver Muriel JACKSON was born on 13 July 1890 [126] and died 9 January 1970. [127]
27. Esther GILMORE was born on 23 September. [128] Esther married Mr CLEMENTS [129] of Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland. Esther died 30 October 1900. [130] Esther GILMORE and Mr CLEMENTS had the following child: + 45 i. Ann Jane CLEMENTS was born on 23 April [131] and died 24 November 1925. [132]
Fifth Generation
29. Mary Anne Henrietta GILMORE was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland on 6 August 1864. [133] She was known to family and friends as Henrietta. Henrietta married Alfred Hampden WADDELL . [134] He was known to family and friends as Sandy. Alfred died 23 February 1919. [135] He was buried in the graveyard of Cahans Presbyterian Church in Lisnaveane, Parish of Tullycorbet, Co Monaghan, Ireland. [136] Henrietta died 7 October 1936 at her home, "Lisnaveane House", in Lisnaveane, Parish of Tullycorbet, Co Monaghan, Ireland. [137] She was buried in the graveyard of Cahans Presbyterian Church in Lisnaveane, Parish of Tullycorbet, Co Monaghan, Ireland. [138]
Mary Anne Henrietta GILMORE and Alfred Hampden WADDELL had the following children:
46 i. Mary WADDELL . Mary married Robert Terence HUNTER . [139] 47 ii. Hope WADDELL [140] . Hope married TAYLOR . [141] 48 iii. Letitia WADDELL . NOTE: February 4, 2003, I have since learned of another child, a son - (therefore #49) SAMUEL GILMORE WILLIAM WADDELL born 4 October 1896 in Lisnaveane, Parish of Tullycorbet, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, and died 11 February 1968 in Lisnaveane (same name), Falmouth, Cornwall. He married EVELINE MARY JOHNS 3 August 1934 in King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth. 31. Jane Amelia Coulter GILMORE was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, Ireland on 2 December 1869. [142] Jane married William REID . [143] Occupation: solicitor in Cavan. Jane died in 1940. [144]
Jane Amelia Coulter GILMORE and William REID had the following child:
49 i. Judy REID . Judy married Albert ROOK . [145]
34. Mary Jane GILMORE was born on 29 January 1876. [146] Mary married Rev. Thomas BARTLEY . [147] Thomas was born on 7 September 1862. [148] Thomas died 3 April 1949. [149] Mary died 4 September 1907 at The Manse in Ballycarry, Co Antrim, Ireland. [150] She was buried 7 September 1907 in Ballycarry, Co Antrim, Ireland. [151]
Mary Jane GILMORE and Rev. Thomas BARTLEY had the following children:
50 i. Eileen Oliver BARTLEY was born on 5 March 1898. Occupation: doctor, (MD, FRCPath). 51 ii. Iris BARTLEY . 52 iii. Mary BARTLEY was born on 7 June 1900. [152] Mary married Robert McNEILL on 10 September 1932. [153] Robert was born on 24 September 1905. [154] Robert died in 1981. [155] Mary died in 1980. [156]
35. David GILMORE birth date unknown. David married Elsie Muriel COULTER . [157] David died 17 August 1959. [158]
David GILMORE and Elsie Muriel COULTER had the following children:
53 i. Andrew GILMORE . 54 ii. Elizabeth GILMORE . Elizabeth married W.J. McCALL . [159]
37. Ethel Sarah GILMORE was born on 16 March 1885. [160] Ethel married William Scott McBRIDE [161] of Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, Ireland. William was born circa 1862. [162] Occupation: doctor. In 1889 William qualified in the King and Queen's College of Physicians, Ireland, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. For about 35 years he was the medical officer of the Crossmaglen Dispensary District in Co Armagh. [163] William died 20 February 1939 at his home in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, Ireland. [164] He was buried 22 February 1939 in Forkhill, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. [165] Ethel died in 1982. [166]
Ethel Sarah GILMORE and William Scott McBRIDE had the following children:
55 i. William Scott McBRIDE was born in January 1908. [167] William married firstly Ethel Inga Earle WILKINSON on 2 July 1940 at Tewkesbury Abbey in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [168] Ethel was born circa 1903 in England. [169] Her birth was registered in the December quarter of 1930 in the Liverpool registration district. She was the daughter of Arthur WILKINSON . William married secondly Mary K. COEY . [170] 56 ii. Mary Frances McBRIDE . Mary died in 1930. [171] 57 iii. Doreen McBRIDE . Doreen died in infancy. [172] 58 iv. Eileen Edith McBRIDE was born on 28 March 1920. [173] Eileen married George William RYDER in 1979. [174]
38. Thomas Jackson GILMORE was born at Liscalgot House in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, Ireland in 1887. [175] Educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and at Edinburgh University, Thomas graduated M.B., Ch.B. During World War I he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He later worked as a medical practitioner in Stoke-om-Trent, Staffordshire, England. [176] Thomas married Marian Elizabeth ARKCOLL in 1918. [177] Marian was born in 1879 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. [178] She was the daughter of Harry Wallace ARKCOLL and Margaret MORRIS . She was baptized on 24 April 1879 at St John's in Burslem, Staffordshire, England. [179] Marian died in 1952. [180] Thomas died 8 June 1939 in Lausanne, Switzerland. [181] He was buried in Lausanne, Switzerland. [182]
Thomas Jackson GILMORE and Marian Elizabeth ARKCOLL had the following children:
59 i. Margaret Eileen GILMORE . [183] Margaret married Ralph HORTON . [184] Ralph was born in 1920. [185] Ralph died in 1963. [186] 60 ii. Patricia Mary GILMORE . [187] 61 iii. Thomas Jackson GILMORE was born in 1923. [188] Thomas married Eileen OSMAN . [189] Thomas died 1 August 1981. [190] He was cremated at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in Padbury, WA. [191]
40. Jane Coulter JACKSON was born in Trim, Co Meath, Ireland on 17 August 1877. [192] She was known to family and friends as Jeannie. Jeannie married Charles Andrews MOORHEAD on 30 September 1908 at Christ Church Church of England in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [193] Charles was born on 7 December 1877 at 35 Benwell Terrace in Belfast, Ireland. [194] He was the son of Robert MOORHEAD and Isabella Dill MOORE . Charles died 12 September 1935 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [195] Jeannie died 4 July 1975 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [196]
Jane Coulter JACKSON and Charles Andrews MOORHEAD had the following children:
62 i. Harold Parker Jackson MOORHEAD was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on 5 October 1910. [197] He spent part of his childhood at "Fostertown", the farm of his mother's family in Trim, Co Meath, Ireland. [198] Harold married Miriam Kathleen DAY-SMITH . She is known to family and friends as Mim. Harold died 19 July 1995. 63 ii. Joan Isobel MOORHEAD was born on 25 March 1913. [199] Joan died 31 August 1931 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [200]
41. Thomas Dare JACKSON was born on 5 May 1879. [201] Thomas married Mary McCULLAGH in 1927. [202] Known to family and friends as Mollie, she was born on 17 July 1890. She was the daughter of Andrew Bradford McCULLAGH and Margaret JACKSON . Mollie died 18 July 1932. [203] Thomas died 17 June 1961. [204]
Thomas Dare JACKSON and Mary McCULLAGH had the following children:
64 i. Ernest Gilmore JACKSON was born on 1 June 1927. [205] Ernest married Gika Priscilla COLLINS. Ernest died in 1996. [206] 65 ii. Thomas Andrew JACKSON was born on 20 February 1930. 66 iii. John McCullagh JACKSON was born on 16 July 1932. [207]
44. Elizabeth Oliver Muriel JACKSON was born on 13 July 1890. [208] Elizabeth married John Knox HOUSTON . [209] Occupation: sales manager of a linen factory in Belfast, Ireland. John died on 16 December (year unknown). [210] Elizabeth died 9 January 1970. [211]
Elizabeth Oliver Muriel JACKSON and John Knox HOUSTON had the following child:
67 i. Thomas Jackson HOUSTON was born circa 1913. [212] Thomas was a brilliant student, and obtained two degrees: Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge University, and Bachelor of Science from Queens University in Belfast. He then joined the Colonial Administrative Service, and around 1937 was posted to Hong Kong. Thomas worked in the Consular service at H.B.M. Consulate General, Canton, China. Thomas married Margaret Emilie Sloane BAYNE on 27 May 1939 at the Peak Church in Hong Kong. [213] She is the daughter of John S. BAYNE of Edinburgh, Scotland . Thomas and Margaret had two children, and Margaret was still in hospital following the birth of their daughter in early December 1941, when the Japanese threat to the Colony intensified. According to Gika Jackson [214] , Thomas had only just arrived in Hong Kong after delivering his wife to safety in Australia and seeing the birth of their youngest child, when his group was overrun and he was made a prisoner of war At the time, he had been serving as a gunner in the 2nd Battery, Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Force. When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on 25 December 1941, Thomas became a Prisoner of War. [215] Thomas died on 4 December 1942 in Hong Kong, reputedly of dysentery. [216] He was buried in the Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong. [217]
45. Ann Jane CLEMENTS was born on 23 April. [218] She was known to family and friends as Jeannie. Jeannie married William BATES . [219] At some stage, Jeannie emigrated to Canada. It is not known if all the family moved there; her son David was also in Canada, as they were both living at 53 Fairview Blvd in Toronto, Ontario when David enlisted in the army in 1916. She was later recorded as residing at 212 Logan St, St Lambert, Montreal. Jeannie died 24 November 1925. [220]
Ann Jane CLEMENTS and William BATES had the following children:
68 i. Dot BATES . 69 ii. David Clements BATES was born in Belfast, Ireland on 10 May 1889. [221] David enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 24 April 1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [222] He served as a private in the 201st Battalion, before transferring to the 170th Battalion, [223] then later to the 58th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). [224] His enlistment papers describe David as being 5 ft 5½ ins tall, with fair hair, blue eyes and a fresh complexion. In a letter dated 17 January 1917, Mary Griffin wrote: David Bates is in the Trenches just now. It will be very hard on him. He was such a pampered boy but if he lives it will make a man of him. [225] Unfortunately, this was not to be. David died 14 September 1917 in France. [226] He was buried at Beehive Cemetery in Willerval, Pas de Calais, France. [227]
[1] . Surname also spelt GILLMER.
[2] . Aiken McClelland, 'The Birch Family
of Birchgrove, Parish of Tullylish'. The Irish Genealogist, (London:
Irish Genealogical Research Society, 1939-), Vol. III, No. 5, pg 185 (hereafter
cited as McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of Birchgrove).
[3] . Family charts prepared by Mary
McNeill (nee Bartley). (Copies supplied by Gika Jackson, 110 Copse Hill,
Harlow, Essex CM19 4PR, England, 10 April 1995), Chart 4 (hereafter cited
as McNeill, Mary, Family Charts).
[4] . McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 3.
[5] . McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 3.
[6] . McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 3.
[7] . Surname also spelt GILLMER.
[8] . McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[9] . R.S.J. Clarke (Comp), Graveyard
Inscriptions County Down, Vol. 19. (Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation,
1983), pg 36 (hereafter cited as Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19). Calculated birth year. Age given as 71 years when
he died 29 July 1834.
[10]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[11]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[12]
. Surname also spelt GILLMER.
[13]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36. Calculated birth year. Age given as 71 years
when he died 29 July 1834.
[14]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[15]
. McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family
of Birchgrove, pg 185.
[16]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 54 yrs when
she died 14 August 1831.
[17]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[18]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[19]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 22 yrs when
he died 31 December 1822.
[20]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[21]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[22]
. The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (comp), International Genealogical Index, v5.
(Online <http://www.familysearch.org/>: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.,
1999-2002), British Isles. Batch No. M700041, Source Call No. 0496723
IT 1 (hereafter cited as LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5).
[23]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 17 yrs when
she died 19 October 1824.
[24]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[25]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[26]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 69 yrs when
he died 8 March 1877.
[27]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[28]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 11 yrs when
he died 29 January 1822.
[29]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[30]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[31]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 13 yrs when
she died 17 November 1826.
[32]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[33]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[34]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[35]
. McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family
of Birchgrove, pg 185.
[36]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[37]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1; and McClelland,
Aiken, Birch Family of Birchgrove, pg 185.
[38]
. Surname also spelt GILLMER.
[39]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[40]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185. Calculated birth year. Age given as 69 yrs when
he died 8 March 1877.
[41]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch M700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[42]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36. Calculated birth year. Age given as 73 yrs
when she died 9 November 1882.
[43]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[44]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36; and McClelland, Aiken, Birch Family of
Birchgrove, pg 185.
[45]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[46]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[47]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[48]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[49]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[50]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36. Calculated birth year. Age given as 29 yrs
when he died 11 June 1871.
[51]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[52]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[53]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[54]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[55]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[56]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C700041, Source Call No. 0496723 IT 1.
[57]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[58]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[59]
. Unknown newspaper, date
unknown. Death notice (hereafter cited as Death Notice, unknown newspaper);
Auckland City Libraries, Cemetery Records: Hillsborough; Onetangi,
Waiheke Island; Otahuhu Public; Waikaraka. (Database available on-line
at <http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/cemeteries/cemetery.html>),
(hereafter cited as Auckland City Libraries, Cemetery Records);
and Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions Co Down, Vol 19, pg
36.
[60]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[61]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[62]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[63]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[64]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[65]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[66]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[67]
. Jeannie Jackson, Birthday Book.
(Transcribed by Sharon Oddie Brown, March 2003), (hereafter cited as Jackson,
Jeannie, Birthday Book); and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4. Jeannie Jackson records birth day as 1 November. Mary McNeil
records birth year as 1845.
[68]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[69]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book; and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts, Chart 8. Jeannie Jackson
gives her mother's birth date as 25 April, but gives no year of birth.
Mary McNeil gives birth year as 1846, but gives the date as 1 August (the
same as the marriage date). Jeannie Jackson would seem to be the more
reliable.
[70]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[71]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book, (no year recorded).
[72]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[73]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[74]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[75]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper;
Auckland City Libraries, Cemetery Records; and Clarke, R.S.J.,
Graveyard Inscriptions Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[76]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper;
and Auckland City Libraries, Cemetery Records.
[77]
. Clarke, R.S.J., Graveyard Inscriptions
Co Down, Vol 19, pg 36.
[78]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[79]
. Vital Records Index - British
Isles. (CD ROM. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
1998), FHL Number 101449 (hereafter cited as British Isles, Vital Records
Index); and LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5, British Isles. Batch
No. 8406532, Sheet 78. Source Call No. 1395728.
[80]
. International Genealogical
Index, Version 4.01, 1999. (hereafter cited as IGI, v4.01, 1999);
and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, (no year recorded).
[81]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper;
and James H. Murnane and Paedar Murnane, At the Ford of the Birches:
The History of Ballybay, it's People and Vicinity. (Ballybay, Monaghan:
Murnane Brothers, 1999), pg 194 (hereafter cited as Murnane, James &
Paedar, At the Ford of the Birches).
[82]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI, v5,
British Isles. Batch No. C701292. Source Call No. 0101130 .
[83]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[84]
. British Isles, Vital Records
Index, FHL Number 101195.
[85]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[86]
. British Isles, Vital Records
Index, FHL Number 255907; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book.
[87]
. Information supplied by Sharon
Oddie Brown, 3273 Beach Avenue, Roberts Creek, BC, V0N 2W2, Canada, 11
March 2003 (hereafter cited as Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information supplied).
[88]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[89]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book; and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts, Chart 4. Jeannie Jackson
records birth day as 1 November. Mary McNeil records birth year as 1845.
[90]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, No year given.
[91]
. .
[92]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[93]
. LDS FamilySearch, IGI v5
records the birth on 24 December 1874 in Lescalgot, Monaghan, Ireland
of a male child of Eliezer GILMORE and Sarah JACKSON. This may be Samuel's
birth.
[94]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 11 March 2003.
[95]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[96]
. British Isles, Vital Records
Index, FHL Number 101216.
[97]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie.
[98]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie.
[99]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, no year given.
[100]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper,
(no year given); and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book.
[101]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[102]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book. No year of birth redoreded, However, a newspaper clipping of
her death notice inserted in the book gives her age as 16 yrs when she
died 16 July 1899.
[103]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[104]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, no year given.
[105]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4. Material added by Gika Jackson.
[106]
. Steve Birks, People of Stoke-on-Trent
- Thomas Jackson Gilmore, <http://www.netcentral.co.uk/steveb/people/gilmore
thom.htm>, 21 February 2002. (Extracted 28 March 2003) (hereafter
cited as Birks, Steve, Thomas Jackson Gilmore).
[107]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[108]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[109]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[110]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[111]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[112]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book; and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts, Chart 8. Jeannie Jackson
gives her mother's birth date as 25 April, but gives no year of birth.
Mary McNeil gives birth year as 1846, but gives the date as 1 August (the
same as the marriage date). Jeannie Jackson would seem to be the more
reliable.
[113]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[114]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[115]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[116]
. Ireland, Certified Copy
of Entry in the Register Book of Births. No 477, 1877. District of Trimfield,
Union of Trim (hereafter cited as Ireland, Birth certificate).
[117]
. Death Registrations 1872-1982,
British Columbia Archives (database available on-line at <http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v
events.htm#indexes>. Reg. No. 1975-09-010849 (hereafter cited as British
Columbia, Canada, Death Registrations).
[118]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book; and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[119]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[120]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[121]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 13 March 2003.
[122]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie. Sharon cites her
source as: Photo of gravestone, Sacred to the memory of Andrew Hugh Gilmore
Jackson who died 31st January, 1918 Aged 36 years..
[123]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book, (no year recorded).
[124]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 6 May 2003. (cites HSBC Group Archives)
[125]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book. (Newspaper clipping inserted in book).
[126]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
as transcribed and amended by Gika Jackson.
[127]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[128]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book, (no year recorded).
[129]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[130]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[131]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book, No year given.
[132]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[133]
. IGI, v4.01, 1999; and Jackson,
Jeannie, Birthday Book, (no year recorded).
[134]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[135]
. Murnane, James & Paedar, At
the Ford of the Birches, pg 194.
[136]
. Murnane, James & Paedar, At
the Ford of the Birches, pg 194.
[137]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper;
and Murnane, James & Paedar, At the Ford of the Birches, pg
194.
[138]
. Murnane, James & Paedar, At
the Ford of the Birches, pg 194.
[139]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[140]
. It has been assumed that this
was a female, but this may not be correct. Another member of the WADDELL
family was the renowned missionary Rev. Hope Masterton WADDELL.
He was named after his mother, whose maiden name was Susan HOPE.
[141]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[142]
. British Isles, Vital Records
Index, FHL Number 101195.
[143]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[144]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[145]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[146]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, no year given.
[147]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[148]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, (no year recorded).
[149]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[150]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper,
(no year given); and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book.
[151]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[152]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[153]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[154]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[155]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4. Material added by George Ryder.
[156]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4. Material added by George Ryder.
[157]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[158]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[159]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[160]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4; and Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday Book, no year given.
[161]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[162]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper,
21 February 1939. Calculated birth date. Age given as 77 yrs when he died
in 1939.
[163]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[164]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper,
21 February 1939.
[165]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper,
22 February 1939.
[166]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4. Material added by Gika Jackson.
[167]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[168] . Unknown newspaper, date
unknown. Marriage notice (hereafter cited as Marriage Notice, unknown
newspaper).
[169] . Index to Births, General
Register Office, England. 1903 December quarter, Vol. 8b, page 76a (hereafter
cited as England, Index to Births).
[170]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[171]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[172]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[173]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[174]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[175]
. Birks, Steve, Thomas Jackson
Gilmore.
[176]
. Birks, Steve, Thomas Jackson
Gilmore.
[177]
. Birks, Steve, Thomas Jackson
Gilmore.
[178]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[179]
. British Isles, Vital Records
Index, FHL Number 1278910.
[180]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[181]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[182]
. Death Notice, unknown newspaper.
[183]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[184]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[185]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[186]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[187]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[188]
. Birks, Steve, Thomas Jackson
Gilmore.
[189]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[190]
. Metropolitan Cemeteries Board
Records. (Available on-line at <http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/Search/search.htm>),
(hereafter cited as Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, WA, Aus, Records).
[191]
. Metropolitan Cemeteries Board,
WA, Aus, Records.
[192]
. Ireland, Birth certificate,
No 477, 1877. District of Trimfield, Union of Trim.
[193]
. Church of England, Marriage
Certificate. (hereafter cited as Church of England, Marriage Certificate);
and Marriage Registrations 1872-1927, British Columbia Archives
(database available on-line at <http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v
events.htm#indexes>. Reg. No. 1908-09-056191 (hereafter cited as British
Columbia, Canada, Marriage Registrations).
[194]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie.
[195]
. British Columbia, Canada, Death
Registrations, Reg. No. 1935-09-505625.
[196]
. British Columbia, Canada, Death
Registrations, Reg. No. 1975-09-010849.
[197]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie. Source cited as:
Kinder email.
[198]
. Information supplied by Fran Kinder,
Crawford Bay, BC, Canada; e-mail <kinders@netidea.com>, 12 October
2000 (hereafter cited as Kinder, Fran, Information supplied).
[199]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie.
[200]
. British Columbia, Canada, Death
Registrations, Reg. No. 1931-09-456531.
[201]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book; and McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[202]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[203]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[204]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[205]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
as transcribed and amended by Gika Jackson.
[206]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie. Source cited as:
Gika Jackson conversation Nov. 2002.
[207]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
as transcribed and amended by Gika Jackson.
[208]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
as transcribed and amended by Gika Jackson.
[209]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[210]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[211]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts.
[212]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register. (Available on-line at <http://www.cwgc.org/>),
(hereafter cited as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour
Register). Calculated birth year. Age given as 29 yrs when he died
4 December 1942.
[213] . Unknown newspaper, . Marriage
notice (hereafter cited as Marriage Notice, unknown newspaper).
[214] A conversation
between Gika Jackson & Sharon Oddie Brown on October 27, 2003 in Harlow,
UK
[215]
. Brown, Sharon Oddie, Information
supplied, 5 March 2003. Descendants of Jane Ledlie. Source cited as:
Notes from Hal Moorhead.
[216]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register.
[217]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register.
[218]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book, No year given.
[219]
. McNeill, Mary, Family Charts,
Chart 4.
[220]
. Jackson, Jeannie, Birthday
Book.
[221]
. David Bates: Attestation Paper,
Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, image file available on-line,
"Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)", National Archives
of Canada, <http://www.archives.ca/02/02010602 e.html> (hereafter
cited as Bates, David C, Attestation Paper, CEF). When he enlisted
in 1916, David gave his birthplace as Belfast, Ireland. However, the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register records him
as a "native of Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland".
[222]
. Bates, David C, Attestation
Paper, CEF.
[223]
. Bates, David C, Attestation
Paper, CEF.
[224]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register.
[225]
. Mary Griffin (of Urker, Crossmaglen,
Co Armagh) letter to Sarah Whiteside, 27 January 1917. Original in the
possession of Betty Whiteside, 2/6 Melville Park Drive, Berwick, Vic 3806
(hereafter cited as Griffin, Mary, Letter to Sarah Whiteside).
[226]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register.
[227]
. Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Debt of Honour Register. |
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