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Personal data Robert Gillies 

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Household of Robert Gillies

He is married to Helen Baxter.

They got married on January 1, 1884 at Menstrie, Logie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, he was 19 years old.Source 4


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Event (Witness at Marriage) on January 1, 1884 in Menstrie, Logie, Stirlingshire, Scotland : Peter McFarlane, Marian Gillies.Source 4

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Robert Gillies

John Gillies
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Janet Whitelaw
1807-????
Mungo Syme
< 1794-1863
Janet Anderson
1798-< 1859
James Gillies
1832-1884

Robert Gillies
1864-1899

1884

Helen Baxter
1866-????

James Gillies
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    1. 1881 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1881 GILLIES, JAMES (Census 374/ 12/ 20) Parish: Logie 1881 Scotland Census [scotlandspeople.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online Image downloaded elsewhere
      1881, GILLIES, JAMES (Census 374/ 12/ 20) Perth
      Name: James Gillies
      Age: 49
      Estimated birth year: abt 1832
      Relationship: Head
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Alloa, Clackmannan
      Registration Number: 374
      Registration district: Logie
      Civil Parish: Logie
      County: Clackmannan
      Occupation: Wood Cutter (Unemployed )
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      James Gillies 49
      Janet Gillies 17
      Robert Gillies 16
      James McLaren 8
    2. Scotland. Select Births and Baptisms. Ancestry,com. 1564 -1950, Ancestry.com, 1864 Record for Robert Gillies Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 6035516
      Record for Robert Gillies
      Name: Robert Gillies
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: 8 Aug 1864
      Birth Place: Logie, Perth, Scotland
      Father: James Gillis
      Mother: Christina Sime
      FHL Film Number: 6035516
    3. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1899, GILLIES, ROBERT (Statutory register Deaths 4465/B 55)
      1899, GILLIES, ROBERT (Statutory register Deaths 4465/B 55)
      Deaths in the Parish of Alva in the County of Clackmannan 1899.
      Robert Gillies Tannery Worker
      Married to Helen Baxter.
      1899 May Twentyfifth 2h 30m P.M.
      Middleton Place, Menstrie. 34 Years
      Parents: James Gillies, Labourer
      (deceased)
      Christian Gillies MS. Sime (deceased)
      COD: Pneumonia 8 days
      Certified by Hugh Macpherson
      L.R.C.P.S. rn
      Inf: James Gillies Son Present
      Registered 1889 May 26th Alva.
      James Masson Robertson
      Registrar
    4. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1884 GILLIES, ROBERT, HELEN BAXTER (Statutory registers Marriages 374/ 1)
      1884 GILLIES, ROBERT, BAXTER, HELEN (Statutory registers Marriages 374/ 1)
      Marriages in the Parish of Logie in the County of Perth 1884.
      1884 First January, Menstrie
      After Banns according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland.
      (Signed)
      Robert Gillies, Millworker (Bachelor)
      Age 20. Menstrie.
      Parents: James Gillies Saw Miller
      Christina Gillies M.S. Syme (dec'd)
      Signed)
      Helen Baxter
      Domestic Servant (Spinster)
      Age 18. Menstrie.
      Parents: William Baxter
      Meal Miller (dec'd)
      Helen Baxter M.S. Grant
      (Signed)
      James Con??
      Minister of Menstrie Church
      (Signed)
      Peter McFarlane Witness
      Marian Gillies Witness
      Registered 1884 Jan'y 2nd
      Logie,
      William Boyce
      Asst. Registrar

    Historical events

    Birthday August 8, 1864

    • The temperature on August 8, 1864 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
      • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
      • May 21 » Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
      • May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
      • May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
      • October 9 » American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.

    Day of marriage January 1, 1884

    • The temperature on January 1, 1884 was about -2.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
      • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
      • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
      • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
      • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
      • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

    Day of death May 25, 1899

    • The temperature on May 25, 1899 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
      • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
      • April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
      • July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
      • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
      • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
    

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    Source: Wikipedia

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