John Gillis^[1]

- 1815

• Name	John Gillis  [2, 3]
  Born	Glaslough, Monaghan, Ireland   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	1E91D6D57E4B49ACB1AA4FD0E36C8872DB55
  Died	1815  [2]
  Person ID	I877	Ernest Benjamin Gillis
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Gillis,   b. 1771, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland ,   d. Nov 1857, Church of St. Salvator, Donagh County, Monoghan, Ireland  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Catherine McDowell,   b. 1774, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland ,   bur. Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Gillis, the son of Robert Gillis and Catherine McDole Gillis, was born in Glasslough, Ireland. He died about 1815. Reported by John's nephew (son of Andrew Gillis), Robert H. Gillis, in 1910 to B.C. Gillis, John was a great sport, ball player, etc., and left home to join Wellington's Army. He marched with the Army and would have been in the Battle of Waterloo the next day had not Napoleon been defeated on June 18, 1815. His group was disbanded and he was sent home, but he fell ill and died just 20 miles from his father's home. (This is presumed to mean he died in 1815; ed.). The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington, referred to by many authors as the Anglo-allied army or Wellington's army, and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Bl?cher, referred to also as Bl?cher's army. The battle marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars. (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo>) Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister. He ended the Napoleonic Wars when he defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?. ?During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, together with a Prussian Army under Bl?cher, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington> [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S92] Marchand GEDCOM 2009, compiled by Frederick J Marchand. [S2] Jim Marchand Gillis GEDCOM, compiled by F. J. Marchand [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE\,]. [S49] Aabjerg (Rebecca Gillis Mooney File) by Email April 2001; Mrs. D. Harvey geneal. sheet July 2001; Griffiths, 1860; Desc. Rpt Prov. by D.Mooney 0206.