James GILLIS^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1837 - 1921  (84 years)

• Name	James GILLIS  [6, 7]
  Born	26 Feb 1837	, Inverness, Megantic, Quebec, Can   [6, 7]
  Christened	21 Mar 1837	Methodist Church, Leeds, Inverness, Quebec
  Gender	Male
  _UID	33007075A91B446FA2BB19ECBDBBEF58B09F
  Died	19 May 1921  [6, 7]
  	Y
  Person ID	I47	tag1
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	William GILLIS,   b. 20 Aug 1803, Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. 20 Dec 1889, Inverness, Megantic County, Quebec, Canada (Gillis Corners)  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Nancy ROBINSON,   b. 5 Aug 1815, Armagh, Ireland ,   d. 5 Jul 1887, Inverness, Megantic County, Quebec (Boutelle Cemetary)  (Age 71 years)
  Married	4 Mar 1833	Ch. Of England, Leeds, Megantic, Quebec, Can   [6, 7, 9, 10]
  	It was a very stormy day and the wedding party walked up to their knees in snow from the bride's father's home, Samuel Robinson, on the Dublin Range, to the same place that another couple were also be married that day.  There were no roads there in those days so they had to walk.  After the wedding, the party walked back to Samuel Robinson's home. They were married at the home of Alexander Learmoth, a Church of England minister, on Grays Road, near the present town of Inverness, Megantic County, Quebec. Note:  Repertory of Births, Marriages, and Burials, "The Anglo-Protestants of Megantic County", 1826-1991, from the LDS Family Library, lists William Gillis and Nancy Robinson's marriage date as March 4, 1833; in Church of England, by Leeds, witnesses:  Alexander Learmoth and William Stele. [6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James was born 26 Feb 1837, the son of  William  &  Nancy (Robinson) Gillis . James was a lumberman. He married Ellen Clough (b. 1851) in Bloomfield, VT in 1875. Their first child, Carrie Maud, was born in 1876 in Quebec, Canada (her birth was registered in Bloomfield, VT). According to the 1910 U.S. Census report, James Gillis immigrated to the U.S. in 1861 and was naturalized in 1877. In 1880, James was farming and the family was living in Deer Creek Township, Phillips County, Kansas. In the 1900 U. S. census the family was living in Elm Creek, Morris County, Kansas. James is listed with his wife, Ellen, and a daughter, Pearl, born in Kansas in December 1886. Ellen reported in that census that she had birthed two children and they were both living. In the 1910 census, James was listed as a carpenter. They lived in Valley, Barber County, Kansas and were caring for two grand-daughters, Sada (4 yrs old) and Leila Ford (3 yrs old). In that census Ellen reported that she had birthed two children but none were living. Both granddaughters were born in Kansas as were both of their parents, so these were the daughters of James' and Ellen's daughter Pearl (Gillis) Ford. In the 1920 census, James and Ellen owned a home in Isabel, Barber County, Kansas. James was 83 years old, Ellen 67; Sadie and Leila were still living with them. James died 19 May 1921. !BIRTH-CHRISTENING:  Ireland Wesleyan MethodistChurch Register; 1837; M210/2, frame 000295, National Archives of Quebec; Federation of Quebec Families, Case postale 6700, Sillery, QC, G1T 2W2, Canada; NOTE:  (from disk)                                       "Seventh leaf                           James, the son of William                           Gilles of the Township of Inver                           ness, Farmer, and of Ann his                           Wife was born the Twenty sixth of                           February One thousand eight hun                           dred and thirty seven and was                           baptized the twenty first of March                           same year in the presence of the sub                           scribing witnesses                                                by me                                              John Borland                                                 Minister                           William Gilles                           John Greaves                   " !BIRTH-CHRISTENING:  Paul Vachon, THE ANGLO-PROTESTANTS OF MEGANTIC COUNTY, Repertory of Births, Marriages, and Burials; 1826-1991; Societe Genealogigue de la region de l'Amiante, Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada, 1992, Pub. No. 5; Births p101;US/CAN 971.4575 K2r,Fiche 6125775,LDS FHL Salt Lake City UT; NOTE: "(bapt) 21/03/1837  GILLIS, James (born) 26/02/1837    William (fa) & Ann ...  Inverness                       bapt.: Methodist Church (Ireland)"

  
  

• Sources

  [S92] . [S91] . [S112] . [S162] Ancestry Family Trees (Reliability: 3). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26120745&pid=1782919920 [S134] . [S2] . [S68] . [S89] . [S202] (Reliability: 3). Marriage date:  1833Marriage place:  Leeds M?gantic (Church of England), Qu?bec http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=drouinvitals&h=13855866&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt [S202] (Reliability: 3). Marriage date:  1833Marriage place:  Leeds M?gantic (Church of England), Qu?bec http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=drouinvitals&h=6641265&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt