Juanita MacDonald wrote to me: > Hi Bob; > > I did a page by page search of GlaceBay and the surrounding > communities, Bridgeport, Catalone, Gabarus, CowBay, Lingan, and > Victoria, for 1891. Except for a few pages in the GlaceBay district > where some names are completely faded and unreadable, there was no > sign of Alexander Gillis. Searching for g*ll*s, al* in Cape Breton, Glace Bay I find: Gilles, Alex Male 68 Single Cape Breton, Sub-District Name: Institutions The district name on the image is blank and the columns are filled with codes:15-1, 16-1, 17 blank, 18 (brother) What is this Sub District? and how do I get to the first page. when I search for blank,blank or *, *, Nova Scotia Cape Breton, Institutions I get 33603 names, ie the entire district, The SubDistrict search appears to be broken. I will write LAC tomorrow. There is only one other male Gillis, a James age 50, DD&B. However Alex had no brother James. There is a James in the 1881 Census that meets the info in the 1891 Census: he was age 40 a married farmer from Grand Narrows. And there is no Alex in Grand Narrows. > > If he was a miner, that would not be unusal, and he may have gone to > Sydney, Florence, Sydney Mines, or left the county and took up > residence in other communities with coal mining, such as Inverness, > Port Hood, Pictou, Albion Mines, Stellarton etc, in Nova Scotia. I went though the 127 G*l*s, Al* and looked at everyone age 35 up. The wife, religion or occupation were wrong. Searching for G*l*s or g*ll*s and c* No Results. > > If he was a fisherman, than almost any of the coastal communities in > NS may have been his destination. > > The 1871 census Lingan, covered a lot of territory from NewWaterford > right around the bay to GlaceBay. If his neighbours on the 1871 > census, and the 1901 census appear to be the same families, you could > be pretty sure he remained in the same residence for the in between > years. I found him in the 1871 several years ago. I do not think the he owned his own home but rented. > > Many miners lived in company houses, if so you would not find him in > the deed resgistration bks. > > I looked at McAlpines directory for 1907/08 there were two: Alexander > Gillis, 34 Roost St., occ. miner [Glace Bay] Alexander Gillis, 129 > Dominion # 4, miner [Passchendaele] > > the earlier directory McAlpines 1890/07 [don't know how come it was > over such a long period of time. Nor do they state when the different > areas were done except for Halifax which was 1890. Only one. > Alexander Gillis, joiner, Caledonia > > Hope this is of some help. Regards Juanita > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "bob gillis" > <robertgillis@verizon.net> Cc: <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com> Sent: > Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [NS-CB] Gillises missing > from Census > > >> 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 >> >> ------------------------------- 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 > >