Andrew GILLIS^{[1, 2, 3]}

1795 - 1876  (81 years)

• Name	Andrew GILLIS  [4, 5, 6]
  Born	1795	Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Alt. Birth	Tullyree Monahan Eire
  Burial	St Salvator's Churchyard
  Fact 1	Fact 1 Purchased small holdings in Ireland  [4]
  Fact 2	Fact 2 Had 5 sons, 2 daughters  [4]
  Property	Donagh, Griffiths, 1860.  [4, 7]
  _FGLINK	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172045582
  _FGRAVE	172045582
  _UID	88D3C138FFE943E6B8B2142242AFD80CDA7F
  Died	23 Feb 1876	Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland   [4, 5]
  	Y
  Buried	23 Feb 1876	Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland
  	Per Donagh records provided by Ethne (Mar 2019)
  Person ID	I61	tag1
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Robert GILLIS,   b. 1771, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland ,   d. Nov 1857, Church of St. Salvator, Donagh County, Monoghan, Ireland  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Catherine McDOWELL,   b. 1774, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ireland ,   bur. Glaslough, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Andrew Gillis Andrew Gillis was the oldest son of Robert Gillis and Catherine McDole Gillis. He purchased some small holdings in Ireland. On July 5, 1826 he married Elizabeth Ridley, St. Salvator's Church of Ireland, Donagh Parish. They had five sons and 2 daughters. They lived on the Donagh Parish-based farmstead which a descendent of Robert Gillis was living on when Benjamin Cole Gillis visited Ireland in 1910. This is the only verifiable marriage of the Gillis sons including William/Andrew/Robert in the church registers, according to 2006 research in Belfast. Marriage on 05 Jul 1826, St. Salvator's Church of Ireland, Donagh Parish. Witnesses per church records: William Watters, William Scott, John Riddle D.Mooney Andrew Gillis Report:  "Remained on farm at Glaslough.  Listed in Griffiths 'Valuation of Tenements' 1860 for Parish of Donagh as renting a house, offices and land of approx. 18 acres from Charles P. Leslie, who was and is the large landowner in the district (Leslie Castle)." 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. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S92] . [S112] . [S162] Ancestry Family Trees (Reliability: 3). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26120745&pid=1784777517 [S2] . [S68] . [S49] (Reliability: 3). Aabjerg (Rebecca Gillis Mooney File) by Email April 2001; Mrs. D. Harvey geneal. sheet July 2001; Griffiths, 1860; Andrew Gillis Desc. Rpt Prov. by D.Mooney 0206. [S57] .