Anne Nicholson b. c1780 Isle of Skye, was the daughter of Old Donald Nichlson and Catherine Macarthur. She married on Skye, Hugh Gillis born c1755 Skye, (he was probable brother or cousin of John Gillis of Orwell Cove, 1803 emigrant) Hugh Gillis died on Skye sometime before 1819, and his widow Anne Nicholson emigrated to PEI in 1819 with her grown children. Possibly they came on the “Morning Star, one source says this was the only ship to have come from Scotland to Ch’town in 1819. It docked in Ch’town on Sept 2 1819 with 200 passengers. Anne Nicholson died feb 1845 in PEI and is buried in the St. John’s Presbyterian churchyard. Children of Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson;
A1.Alexander Gillis born c1785 Skye married in 1810 Flora Macqueen born
isle of skye, died feb 8 1885 buried in Belfast. Alexander died april 24
1867 in Newtown PEI. with children;
B1.John James Gillis b. 1813 skye m. jan 8
1851 in PEI Catherine Fraser, d/o James Fraser and
Anne Anderson. John died dec 25 1892 and Catherine
died in 1910. with children;
C1.Alexander
Gillis b. may 8 1855 m. on april 28 1890 Mary Ann Beaton b. nov 1 1857
died june 10
1933. With children;
D1.Flora Isabella Gillis b. march 25 1891
D2.John Alexander Gillis b. june 17 1893
D3.Murdoch Beaton Gillis b. nov 28 1894
D4.Abigale Clara May Gillis b. nov 13 1900 m. Theodore Swanson
C2.Anne Gillis b. jan 10 1867 m. Donald
Mackenzie with children;
D1.Ralph
Mackenzie m. Catherine Maude McEachern b 1902 Garfield lot 58
d/o Charles
McEachern and Mary Jane Panton.
D2.Sarah
Mackenzie called Sadie
D3.Flora
Mackenzie
D4.Louise
Mackenzie
D5.Cassie
Mackenzie b. 1895 Belle River m. Campbell Macleod b. 1887 died 1974 s/o
John D. Macleod and Jessie Macphee. He was named after Reverend Malcolm
Campbell, one time pastor of Wood Islands presbyterian church. Cassie and
Campbell are both buried in Belfast.
B2.Hugh Gillis b. c1813 Skye died 1888 Georgetown
PeI m. Isabella Fraser b. c1821 died 1891 d/o James Fraser and
Anne Anderson. They are buried in Georgetown.
B3.Mary Gillis b. 1817 Skye m. poss in 1844
Alexander Anderson s/o Alexander Anderson and Isabella Unknown,
emigrants from Perth who settled in Orwell Cove
circa 1819.
B4.Captain Angus Gillis
B5.Christina Gillis m. William Gillis
B6.William Gillis b. dec 15 1835 Newtown m.
Christina Mctavish b. c1840. They were on the 1881 census of
Newtown lot 57, a farmer, religion canadian presbyterian.
With children;
C1.John Gillis
b. c1860 Newtown
C2.Alexander
Gillis b. c1865 Newtown
C3.Angus Gillis
b. c1865 Newtown
C4.Catherine
Gillis b. c1867 Newtown
C5.William Gillis
b. c1873 Newtown
C6.Duncan Gillis
b. c1874 Newtown
C7.Murdoch Gillis
b. c1874 Newtown
C8.Sarah Gillis
b. c1874 Newtown
C9.Hugh Gillis
b. c1876 Newtown
C10.Donald Gillis
b. c1877 Newtown
C11.Mary B.
Gillis b. c1878 Newtown
C12.Jessie Gillis
b. c1880 Newtown
B7.Sarah Gillis died young unmarried
B8.Alexander Gillis b. sept 8 1833 Newtown
m. Elizabeth Nicholson
B9.Captain Murdoch Gillis b. may 12 1826 Newtown
B10.Donald Gillis b. aug 26 1828 Newtown m.
Miss Nicholson
B11.Flora Gillis b. aug 26 1828 Newtown m.
Donald Campbell of Applecross Scotland. Flora
died june 18 1887 in Montague River PEI, with
children;
C1.Janet Campbell
m. in 1882 John Nicholson b. may 24 1848 Flat River s/o John
Nicholson and
Catherine Bell. He farmed lot 60 Queens, with children;
D1.John Nicholson Gold Roof mining co, Butte Montana
D2.Donald C. Nicholson stayed in PeI
D3.Alexander N. Nicholson stayed in PEI
C2.Flora Campbell
C3.John Campbell
C4.Mary M. Campbell
B12.Nancy or Anne Gillis b. PEI m. in 1848
Alexander Halliday b. 1822 with children;
C1.Sarah Halliday
b. march 13 1849 died Sept 19 1924 married as his 2nd wife Findlay Macdonald
b. aug 1 1833 died aug 20 1900. Findlay was s/o Donald Macdonald died 1847,
and Catherine Maclennan b. 1790. Donald came to Ontario Canada in 1847,
but died enroute. Findlay married first, Isabella Macbain b. 1839 died
may 12 1867. They moved to the USA with children;
D1.Donald
A. Macdonald b. feb 26 1874 died aug 31 1963.
D2.James
Macdonald b. aug 22 1875 died june 9 1962
D3.Kenneth
Macdonald b. may 4 1877 died march 4 1930
D4.Alexander
Macdonald b. april 5 1881 died nov 30 1961
D5.Thomas
Macdonald b. april 5 1881 died may 16 1974
D6.John
S. Macdonald b. april 8 1883 died aug 22 1942
D7.Isabella
Macdonald b. may 28 1885
D8.Roderick
Macdonald b. nov 14 1887 died jan 14 1978 m. Frances Ruth Lawrence b. aug
29 1894 Volin, South Dakota, died april 19th, m.
2ndly Esther Jacobi died of influenza with their child.
A2. Margaret Gillis d/o Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson b. 1806 Skye, died jan 1 1910 or aug 12 1888 m. John Bainn.
A3.Catherine Gillis d/o Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson born Skye, died possibly in Newtown.
A4.Flora Gillis d/o Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson b. c1790 Skye
A5.John Gillis s/o Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson b. Skye
A6.Charles Gillis s/o Hugh Gillis and Anne Nicholson b. 1790 Skye
m. Isabella Nicholson b. Skye died 1862 buried july 2 1862 Belfast. Charles
died dec 15 1868 Newtown, buried Belfast. On oct 19 1819 Charles and his
brother Alexander bought a 150 acre farm from the Earl of Selkirk, on lot
57. In his will dated jan 3 1868, Charles left his 50 acre farm to his
unmarried son Donald. With children;
B1.Hugh Gillis b. c1819 Orwell
B2.Anne M. Gillis b. july 31 1821 Orwell died
1903 buried Belfast, m. on jan 18 1844 Donald
Macdougall.
B3.Alexander Gillis b. june 20 1823 Orwell
m. Catherine Smith b. c1828 PEI died 1906 bureid
Belfast. Alexander died jan 24 1899 Newtown,
with children;
C1.Margaret
Isabella Gillis b. 1858 Newtown tailoress, m. Gil Smith
C2.Sarah Jane
Gillis b. april 26 1860 Newtown died april 19 1905 PEI
C3.Catherine
E. Gillis b. 1871 died nov 15 1916 North Earltown Nova
Scotia, married
D. G. Ross.
C4.Charles Alexander
Gillis b. june 16 1862 Newtown died 1935 Newtown buried
Belfast, married
Christina Nicholson with children;
D1.Catherine Gillis b. april 14 1903 Newtown
D2.John William Gillis born june 17 1904 Newtown
C5.Norman Alexander
Gillis b. may 30 1867 Newtown died aug 2 1951 Eldon buried
Belfast, married
Anne Mackenzie died may 8 1946 with children;
D1.Winnifred Gillis b dec 18 1901 Eldon
D2.Margaret Helen Gillis b. nov 30 1902 Eldon
D3.Charles Wesley Gillis b. 1905 Eldon
D4.Angus Gillis b. sept 25 1907 Eldon
C6.Donald Findlay
Gillis b. oct 28 1864 Newtown died march 30 1939 Newtown buried Belfast,
m. Margaret Mctavish of Newtown, d/o Donald Mctavish and Catherine Macdonald
with childre;
D1.Alexnader Gillis b. april 20 1903 Newtown
D2.Donald Gillis b. may 27 1904 Newtown
D3.Child Gillis b. 1905 Newtown died july 27 1905 PEI
D4.Hector Gillis b. sept 24 1833 Newtown died july 1 1895 Brooklyn New
York, USA buried Greenwood cemetery. He was a ships carpenter, and moved
to Brooklyn circa 1880. He m. Mary or Margaret Mcfadden with children;
E1.John Daniel Gillis b. dec 10 1855 Ch’town
E2.Isabella Gillis b. aug 8 1857 Ch’town
E3.Charles Edward Gilis b. march 15 1860 Ch’town
E4.Neil Malcolm Gillis b. sept 10 1864 West Point PEI
E5.Charles Edward Stewart Gillis b. sept 16 1866 West Point PEI m. june
16 1894 ini Brooklyn New York, as her first husband, Lillian Ella Montgomery
died feb 12 1930 buried Evergreen cemetery Brooklyn, d/o Ralph Montgomery
and Julia Vanderbilt. With children
F1.Charles E. Gillis b sept 1 1895 Brooklyn changed his name to Russell
Sage Gillis.
F2.Maude Anna Gillis b. feb 11 1897 Brooklyn died june 12 1960 Brooklyn,
was named for two of her father’s relatives, m. on nov 1916 in Brooklyn,
Charles Albert Hazel.
F3.Frederick Gillis b. dec 1898 Brooklyn
F4.Lillian E. Gillis b. nov 28 1903 died dec 14 1960 m. Herbert Rushforth
circa 1920 in New York.
E6.Mary Flora Gillis b. jan 1 1869 West Point PEI
Source: Hugh Gillis archives, culandera@hotmail.com
Source: Barbara Fandry, wfandrey@gte.net
Source: http://www.ualberta.ca/!dgeorge/genes/genes.htm
Source: Andy Lane, Alane49110@aol.com
Source: PEI Past and Present
Source: Frank Maclean frank_mclean@mindlink.bc.ca