Help Needed in Deciphering A Name

[Gotcha]

Hi...i'm sorry...i don't know how to post just an image that i need to have deciphered...so i hope this works...i'm going to post the link instead...if that's ok...
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e143/e003555538.jpg
it is a passenger list...from the ship Gallia...year 1899..
the name...3 from the bottom of this page...Mary G....??
if anyone can decipher that surname i would appreciate it...
Thanks
Gotcha

[Emmeline]

Hello Gotcha

Might it be Gillies or Gibbes 

Sure to be  plenty of other Rootschatters along to help.....

[Flattybasher9]

I note that there are a Kenny Gibbons and a Fred Gibbons, their surnames being very close looking to Mary's. They are 14 and 11, and I wonder if Mary is related, mother perhaps.

Regards

Malky

[Wiggy]

Except that she is listed as Spinster - (ditto from the entry above) - With so many children and three spinsters linked with them - I wonder if this is one of those ships taking children to Canada for migration of children!

I've just been reading 'Oranges and Sunshine' about the shipping of 180,000 children from UK to the 'colonies' for about 100 years until 1967 - all these children accompanied by three older women -    Hmmmm  Just wondering!

Possible do you think?

Wiggy   

[JulesT]

It looks to be a letter short to be Gibbons when you compare it to the others - I think it looks like Gilles.  The tails of the "g's" from the line above make it harder to decipher.

Just my twopence worth.

Jules

[genjen]

My initial reaction is that it says Gilkes.


Jen

[Wiggy]

My initial reading of it was Gibbes - before I saw anyone else's ideas that was.

[genjen]

Yes, I can see that as well Wiggy, though I'm not convinced that those two letters in the middle, are the same as each other.

[JenB]

Here's that same group of people on the Gallia in 1899, but from a different list.

The name is definitely Mary Gilkes.