I thought of a couple of possible sources for finding my missing Alex and Christy Gillis and others. I will appreciate a lookup for Alex or Christy in One is Deed books, 1786-1912; index, 1786-1966 and specifically Grantor-grantee index, A - K 1865-1895 FHL US/CAN Film 0805845. If his film is available in a local FHC or other repository. This index should be at NSARM. Two is the Church map for CBC. If someone has access to this, whee Alex And Christy wire living and who their neighbors were. Three. Any directories for CBC for 1880s and later. The FHL catalog does not list any. bob gillis I wrote to the Cape Breton list: > My great uncle was Alexander Gillis was born Parish of Harris in Dec > 1840. He married > as his second wife Christy Shaw a widow. > > I find them in various records and Census but very inconsistently in the > Census. > > 1. 1841 Scottish Census Age 64 months, born Dec 1840 > > 2. 1871 Census Alex widower with 3 children and Christy Shaw widow and > housekeeper in Lingan > > 3. 1874 Alex and Christy marry > > 4. 1875 Daughter Florence born. > > 5. 1880 US Census, not found (searched but not unexpected) > > 6. 1881 Census (family search) A, C and F not found. > > 7. 1891 Census. Not found > > 8. 1896 Florence married, dau of Alexander in mining and Christy > > 9. 1901 Alexander and Christy living in Glace Bay > > 10. 1908 - 1911 No death found for Alexander or Christy > > 11. 1911 Neither found

Hi Bob; I decided to do some checking, after noting that you have not found Alex Gillis in either 1881 or 1891, in the GlaceBay district. Another possible explanation is not that the enumerator missed them, but Archives Canada missed posting the page. I have notified them that page 58 for Glace Bay which has the name Gillis on it does not appear for the 1891 census. I can't tell you how many Gillis are on that page, but it is obvious to me, the archives must have the page somewhere, as they listed a Gillis, Dan, as being on it. There maybe other pages missed also in various districts. I don't know. Please note that when checking the images, two pages appear. Check that the pages are consecutive, if not notify the archives that the image is missing or have attached the entry to a wrong image. It is very simple to do as they have 'suggest correction' on the item display page for any name. It doesn't find your Gillis, but it could explain why you can't find them. Happy hunting Juanita MacDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: "bob gillis" <robertgillis@verizon.net> To: "Cape Breton" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com>; "Nova scotia" <NOVA-SCOTIA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [NS-CB] Gillises missing from Census >> >> 6. 1881 Census (family search) A, C and F not found. >> >> 7. 1891 Census. Not found >> >> 11. 1911 Neither found > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Juanita MacDonald wrote to me: > Hi Bob; > > I decided to do some checking, after noting that you have not found Alex > Gillis in either 1881 or 1891, in the GlaceBay district. Another possible > explanation is not that the enumerator missed them, but Archives Canada > missed posting the page. I have notified them that page 58 for Glace Bay > which has the name Gillis on it does not appear for the 1891 census. I can't > tell you how many Gillis are on that page, but it is obvious to me, the > archives must have the page somewhere, as they listed a Gillis, Dan, as > being on it. Unless LAC on-line and familysearch use the same index, Alex, Christy and Florence are not in the 1881 Census as I searched both with no results. Juanita, did you go through a microfilm of the 1891 Census for Glace Bay subdistrict ? I just tried to select the Glace Bay subdistrict and it returned 672 names for all of Cape Breton District. bob gillis