Robert H. GILLIS^[1]

1834 - 1923  (88 years)

• Name	Robert H. GILLIS  [2, 3]
  Born	28 Jul 1834	Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland   [2, 4]
  Christened	28 Jul 1834	Donagh, Ireland
  	Per Donagh records held by Ethne (Mar 2019)
  Gender	Male
  _UID	936275238063404B91F37E576DEC239060A1
  Died	14 May 1923	St. Mark's Church of Ireland Churchyard, Tandragee, Armagh, N. Ireland   [2]
  Buried	18 May 1923	St. Marks Churchyard, Tandragee, Armagh   [2]
  Person ID	I594	tag1
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2019

  
  

  Mother	Elizabeth RIDLEY,   b. 1808, Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland ,   d. 14 May 1864, Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland  (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F194	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The following was told by Tom Gillis of Ottawa to his sister Katie in l943: Uncle Andrew, the eldest son of Robert Gillis and Catherine McDole had two sons, Robert and Thomas.  Robert was the man who trailed and caught Crippen on a boat at Quebec.    He was the Inspector of Scotland Yards and either he or Thomas recovered with the "queen's Gold Lace."  In l9l9, Edgar (Kate Gillis Brown's son) visited them when on leave at Tandragee. Robert's son Sidney, invalided home, badly wounded.  Both Robert and Thomas traveled extensively in Canada and Australia.  Robert was in Toronto when it was still called York.  His son stayed one winter with Marsha (Martha?) Gillis in Inverness. (Feb. 06):  Per D. Mooney Andrew Gillis Desc. Rpt., Robert was a member of the RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) and was stationed in Belfast at the time of his marriage in 1870.  In November 1871, he was transferred to County Armagh.  He was pensioned out of the RIC on 11 May 1877, after 21 1/2 years of service, with a pension of 63 Pounds. In l996, Donald Mooney contacted a descendant of Andrew Gillis, Valerie Gillis Harvey of Rockhampton, Australia.  She submitted the following about her family: The Gillis Family as I know it: Robert Gillis married Isabella Haire, who was a milliner, on the 22 Dec. l870 at Navan in the County of Meath, Eire. Isabella (known as Bella) was the daughter of Thomas and Jane Haire.  Thomas, a Royal Irish Constabulary member was Head Constable in Navan at the time of the wedding.  Thomas Haire died in l874 after a fall from his horse, and is buried, together with a daughter Malda, who died in her teens, in the graveyard of St Mary's Church of Ireland in Navan. A little time later Jane (nee Noble) whose family were jewellers in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, N.I., took her children Sadie, Emily, Lucy, Minnie, James, Alfred and William to the U S to start a new life. They settled in Maynard, Mass. Two of the boys later moved to Canada - William to Montreal and Alfred to Toronto.  Bella, Margaret (known as Maggie) and Joseph stayed in Ireland.  Joseph later went to live and work in England. According to Maggie, our Haire and Noble ancestors came from Ayrshire, Scotland in the 17th century. This ties in with the Plantation of Ulster. [2]

  
  

• Sources

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