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Title: Archibald GILLIES
Post by: Scotison on Monday 03 July 23 09:32 BST (UK)
Hello, hoping someone can help!  I have hit a dead end in my researching.  I am trying to find an Archibald Gillies.  All the info I have on him is that he was a witness at the wedding of Elizabeth Smith and Andrew Clark in 1865 in Kirkintilloch. 
I suspect he is a cousin or other relation to Elizabeth as her grandmother was Hellen Gillies. (c.1800)

Thank you
Title: Re: ARCHIBALD GILLIES
Post by: HistoricalGenealogy on Tuesday 04 July 23 03:38 BST (UK)
Helen GILLIES was born on 5 Oct 1799 in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland to John & Jane.
Title: Re: ARCHIBALD GILLIES
Post by: jomcd967 on Tuesday 04 July 23 10:53 BST (UK)
In 1841 there is the following Smith & Gillies families in the same household…..

Kilcraigan Farm, Rosneath, Dunbartonshire
John Smith 50 b Dunbartonshire
Flory Smith 45 b Scotland
Margaret Smith 16 b Dunbartonshire
Mary Smith  14 b Dunbartonshire
Duncan Smith 13 b Dunbartonshire
Donald Smith 8 b Dunbartonshire
Flory Smith 7 b Dunbartonshire
Catherine Smith 4 b Dunbartonshire
Archibald Gillies 35 b Scotland
Catherine Gillies 30 b Scotland
Duncan Gillies 12 b Scotland
Alexander Gillies 2 b Dunbartonshire
JohnGillies 5 b Dunbartonshire

Looks like the same Archibald in 1861

Woodside Cottage, Rosneath, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
Archibald Gillies Head 58 Shoemaker b Kilmartin, Argyllshire
Catherine Gillies Wife 50 b Argyllshire
Duncan Gillies Son 30 Shoemaker b Lanarkshire
Jane Hamilton Daughter    27 b  Dunbartonshire
John Gillies Son25 Shoemaker b Dunbartonshire
Alexander Gillies Son 22 Joiner b Dunbartonshire
Mary Gillies Daughter 16 b Dunbartonshire
James Gillies Son 9 Scholar b Dunbartonshire
William Hamilton Son-in-law 28 Mason St Andrews, Fife
Archibald Gillies Hamilton Grand son 0 b Dunbartonshire
Margaret Wilkie Visitor 34 Slater's wife b St Andrews, Fife,
David   Lowie Boarder 50 Shoemaker   b Fife

Jo  :)