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Title: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Saturday 28 February 26 15:48 GMT (UK)
Tryiing to trace two members of the Gill family of West Wylam, Prudhoe.

Hannah Gill born 1866, is in 1891census age 25 single but nothing after that.

Elizabeth Gill  born 1867 in 1871 census  then nothing, have been unable to trace a death record.

Would appreciate any assistance.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: CaroleW on Saturday 28 February 26 16:30 GMT (UK)
Who were their parents?  Please post full 1871 details
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 16:36 GMT (UK)
This family in 1871 West Wylam. Prudhow.  ??

Joseph Gills 32 Head
Jane Gills 32 Wife
Hannah Gills 5 Daughter
Elizabeth Gills   4   Daughter
Matthew Gills 1 Son

A marriage which might fit

Joseph Gills - 1839 - 1866  (aged 27 years)
Marriage Place   All Saints, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Father    Robert Gills
Spouse    Jane Fairbairn

1881 census Jesmond Village    Newcastle Upon Tyne

Joseph Gills 42 Head
Jane Gills 41 Wife
Jane Gills 13 Daughter
Isabella Gills   11   Daughter.  Married 1890 to John C Southern
Elizabeth Gills 9 Daughter
Sarah Ann Gills 7 Daughter
Minnie Gills 1 Daughter


Have you checked this Hannah marriage to John Robinson ?

Hannah Gills Registration Year   1892 Registration Quarter   Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District   Newcastle upon Tyne
Inferred County   Northumberland
Volume   10b Page   158

Sandra

Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 16:38 GMT (UK)

1901 census Prudhoe Northumberland

John Robinson 31 Head
Hannah Robinson   35   Wife
Frederick Robinson 8 Son
William Robinson 4 Son
Emily Robinson 6 Daughter
Jane Robinson 2 Daughter
Thomas W Sanderson 16 Boarder
James Mitchell 40 Boarder

Hannah passed away 1943

Hannah Robinson 1866 - 1943  (aged 77 years)
Registration Quarter   Jan-Feb-Mar   Northumberland West
Inferred County   Northumberland
Volume   10b Page   429

Sandra
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 16:42 GMT (UK)
Possible marriage for Elizabeth Gill to James Hawkins ??

Elizabeth Gills Registration Year   1888    Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District   Hexham Northumberland
Volume   10b Page   459

1891 census Heddon on the Wall, Houghton and Close House, Northumberland.

James Hawkins   25   Head
Elizabeth Hawkins 24   Wife
Joseph Hawkins 2   Son
Eliza M Hawkins 7/12   Daughter

1901   Heddon on the Wall. Northumberland.

James Hawkins 35 Head
Elizabeth Hawkins   35   Wife
Joseph Hawkins 12 Son
Eliza Mary Hawkins 10 Daughter
James Hawkins 9 Son
Edward Hawkins 7 Son
Jane Hawkins 4 Daughter

Sandra
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 16:43 GMT (UK)
FIND A GRAVE

Elizabeth Hawkins

1867 - Death 17 Nov 1940 (aged 72–73)

Burial St. John's Churchyard Greenside, Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/248014143/elizabeth-hawkins

Death Notice

20 Nov 1940
The Journal(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England)

23 Nov 1940
The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle(Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England)

Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: CaroleW on Saturday 28 February 26 16:49 GMT (UK)
Was surname Gills - not Gill?  Marriage for Hannah is Gills & daughter Emily's birth shows mmn as Gills

Daughter Jane may be Jenny Robinson b 1899 mmn also Gills - not Gill

Frederick was Joseph Frederick - mmn Gills

1871 entry is Gills but somebody has incorrectly notified a correction to Gill
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 17:00 GMT (UK)

Isabel Gill/Gills married to John Charlton Southern passed away 1943 Nanimo British Columbia.

Obit
12 Feb 1943
The Vancouver Sun(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

J C Southern
21 Oct 1929 Nanaimo Daily News(Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada)



Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 17:08 GMT (UK)
Sarah Ann Gills/Schilling

Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1973

Sarah A Schilling - 13 Nov 1874 - 1907  (aged 32 years)
Birth Date   13 Nov 1874 Birth Place   England
Death Date   16 Sep 1907 Death Place   Aspinwall, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Father    Joseph Gills
Mother    Jane Fairbairn
Certificate Number   85602

FIND A GRAVE

Sarah Ann Schilling - Maiden Name   Gills
Birth Date   13 Nov 1874 Birth Place   England
Death Date   16 Sep 1907
Death Place   Aspinwall, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Cemetery   Erie Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place   Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Has Bio?   Y
Father    Joseph Gills
Mother    Jane Gills
Spouse    William F Schilling

Children   
William Carleton Schilling
Clayton Fairburn Schilling

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135798745/sarah-ann-schilling

Obit
17 Sept 1907
The Pittsburgh Post(Pittsburgh, PA)

Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Saturday 28 February 26 17:21 GMT (UK)


Probably more to find if you have not got all the family info

Sandra
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Monday 02 March 26 14:26 GMT (UK)
Easy to see the confusion here, some records say Gill, others say Gills, the headstone for Joseph & Jane ( Both died in 1911 ) in Old Edgewell Cemetery, Prudhoe is engraved Gill.

I have Joseph marrying Jane Scott in 1865.

I don't think the Robinson family living in  Jesmond is ours.

The info re Hannah - John Robinson looks correct, Elizabeth - John Hawkins also looks spot on.

Matthew married Jane Hall 1897, can't find any marriage for William. I think Mary Ann married in 1892.

Thank You for all the assistance, I'll keep looking !!!. to Jacob Maughan but this one is a bit tenuous, Jane married 1905 lexander Keenleyside, Thomas married Mary E Shield
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: *Sandra* on Monday 02 March 26 15:01 GMT (UK)
There was this written where they wrote about William

GILL, William (Service number 49975)

Biographical Notes
William Gill stated that he had been in New Zealand for five years when he enlisted on 31 January 1917 at Timaru. He had been called up in 1916. William was residing at "Ettrick Bank", High Street, Timaru, and was employed as a clerk for Priest & Holgate. He was the son of Joseph and Jane Gill, both deceased. It appears that he may have been the William Gill (or Gills) born in 1876 at Prudhoe, Northumberland. This William was at home with his family at Prudhoe, in 1911 there being only William, a clerk, and his widowed father. His mother probably died in early 1911, aged 71 years; and his father Joseph, a coal miner, on 1 October 1911 at West Wylam, aged 72 years

Previous Military Experience   
Marital Status   Single
Next of Kin   Mr George B. TODD (friend), Greytown, Wairarapa; Mr Thomas GILL (brother), Prudhoe-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England
Religion   Church of England

https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=5008
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Monday 02 March 26 16:49 GMT (UK)
The info re William seems to  tie in nicely, Thomas was his younger Brother, he was in Prudhoe pretty much all his life. Great find !!!.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Monday 02 March 26 18:11 GMT (UK)
Re : William Gill b 1876  Just when you think you have cracked it ! I have found in 1939 Roll :

William Gill b 1876 living at 29 Stanhope Street, Greenside Co. Durham with Widowed Sister Elizabeth Hawkins ( Nee Gill ). Need more info on this one, did he return from New Zealand, did he ever go ? It's quite a puzzle.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: softly softly on Monday 02 March 26 19:28 GMT (UK)
Can I please offer up a different family for William (until proved incorrect)

GILLS, ELIZABETH       mmn SCOTT 
GRO Reference: 1867  M Quarter in GATESHEAD  Volume 10A  Page 725
 
GILLS, WILLIAM       mmn SCOTT 
GRO Reference: 1876  S Quarter in HEXHAM  Volume 10B  Page 293

GILLS, THOMAS       mmn SCOTT 
GRO Reference: 1874  S Quarter in HEXHAM  Volume 10B  Page 282

GILLS, MATTHEW       mmn SCOTT 
GRO Reference: 1869  S Quarter in GATESHEAD  Volume 10A  Page 727
Parents

Marriages Mar 1865   
Gill    Joseph        Newcastle T    10b   55    
Scott    Jane                Newcastle T    10b   55    

1881 census -West Wylam, Prudhoe, Hexham, Northumberland, England

ref: 5101 38 31

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WM-4M1L?lang=en

SS
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Tuesday 03 March 26 10:42 GMT (UK)
Corrrect, that is the Gill/ Gills I am looking at, it all checks out, the mystery is, where was William  betwen 1911 and 1939, did he go to New Zealand and, if so, did he return, puzzling, frustrating but that's genealogy for you !.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 03 March 26 10:56 GMT (UK)
That’s the problem with having 2 posts, William was in uk 1931

SS
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: jonwarrn on Tuesday 03 March 26 11:59 GMT (UK)
where was William  betwen 1911 and 1939, did he go to New Zealand

There's a W Gill arriving in New Zealand in November 1911 on the SS Ramuera from London.
Age 35. Single. Occupation Clerk
(with image)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KLBS-NWY
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: jonwarrn on Tuesday 03 March 26 12:40 GMT (UK)
the headstone for Joseph & Jane ( Both died in 1911 ) in Old Edgewell Cemetery, Prudhoe is engraved Gill.

Burial of Jane Gill, 14 February 1911
Age 71 years
Abode 21 West Wylam Prudhoe
Image
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-FS6G-8

Joseph Gill, 1 October 1911
Age 72 years
Abode 21 Wylam Row West Wylam
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1B-FS6F-7
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: softly softly on Tuesday 03 March 26 14:32 GMT (UK)
William ( occupation-Clerk) NZ electoral register.

William
Gill
1925
Waimarino

SS
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: hexhamlad on Tuesday 03 March 26 16:55 GMT (UK)
The emigration info looks quite feasable, so  is it possible went out to New Zealand in 191 and then returned to be back in UK by 1931 ???? Need to dig deeper I'm afraid. Hoping electoral rolls will help.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: sparrett on Wednesday 04 March 26 02:47 GMT (UK)
I have chosen to reply on this one of the two running threads ( which situation is causing an amount of juggling I think) :o.

But now that the initial outward voyage has been located it is noteworthy that  the death of William's father Joseph took place on 1st October 1911 ( previously given) and probate was granted within weeks.

Perhaps there was a bequest to William which enabled to take his voyage to NZ before the end of that year.
Sue
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: sparrett on Thursday 05 March 26 00:58 GMT (UK)
Joseph Lee, the tailor to whom probate was granted, can be seen on the census pages at Newcastle upon Tyne for the years before 1911, a married man with 5 children.
In 1901.Address 49 Ann Street. His wife is Elizabeth, possibly nee MAVEN with a marriage is 1871.

In 1911 he lives (somewhat coincidentally!) at 110 Gill Street  Newcastle  Upon Tyne. a working tailor.
His address is about 4 or 5 miles I think from the home of Joseph GILL at Wylam.

Sue


Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: shanreagh on Thursday 05 March 26 01:01 GMT (UK)
I have chosen to reply on this one of the two running threads ( which situation is causing an amount of juggling I think) :o.

......
Sue

Can we get the two theads merged please? I'm confused...I know it doesn't take much!
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: jonwarrn on Thursday 05 March 26 20:06 GMT (UK)
There's a W Gill arriving in New Zealand in November 1911 on the SS Ramuera from London.

I think I meant the SS Remuera!
Anyway on the outgoing passenger list he seems to be transcribed on ancestry as Mr W Usill
Travelling 3rd class. No age given, but he is single, and a Clerk.

Interestingly the Remeura is said to have departed London on the 29th September, which is a couple of days before William Gill's father was buried in Prudhoe.
Title: Re: Gill Family Prudhoe
Post by: jonwarrn on Thursday 05 March 26 20:14 GMT (UK)
To be fair to ancestry, it is slightly scrawly handwriting.
The capital G reminds me of how we were taught to write it at school when we were learning to do "joined up" writing (which apparently is really called "cursive" writing!)