Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: GILCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com > From: Jan Gilchrist <janginimo@shaw.ca> > Date: May 23, 2006 10:17:15 PM EDT > To: GILCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GILCHRIST-L] Gilchrist - Canada > Reply-To: GILCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello, > I have been reading with interest all the Gilchrists popping out of > the woodwork. > I haven't made any connections yet but perhaps those reading will > find something I haven't. > My father Cecil Edward Gilchrist was born in Ridgeville, Manitoba > on December 7, 1916. > He just passed away this January in Winnipeg, Manitoba. > Here is some of our history - at least as much as I have managed to > put together. > > > Robert Gilchrist - born in Scotland about 1823 married Agness (born > about 1835. > they had 6 children: Andrew - born about 1852, Agnes - born about > 1855, Ellen - born 1860, Robert Jr, 1866, John - 1868, and Barbara > - 1871. > Robert Gilchrist Sr died in Ontario on Nov 11, 1887. > Agness died on April 28, 1871. > > Their son Andrew Gilchrist married Sarah Loane (born 1847). They > married on May 24,1873 in Toronto Ontario Canada. They had 6 > children: > Robert William - born Aug 27, 1874, died June 28, 1960 > Andrew - born Oct 9, 1876, died May, 1970 > John (Jack) born Aug 29, 1878 > Sarah Ann - born 1880 > James - died when he was 2 on Feb 5, 1882 > Cecil James - born Sept 26, 1887, died May 12, 1962. > > Their son Robert William married Harriet Matilda Stewart (born Nov > 19, 1886, died July 13), 1980 - in Ridgeville Manitoba on Nov 28, > 1909 > They had 9 children: > Alexander - born Sept 13, 1910 died Mar 29, 1990 > Barbara - born Nov 5, 1911 > Robert Andrew - born Nov 8, 1912, died Oct 1, 1971 > James Allen - born June 14, 1914, died July 23, 1952 > William John - born Sept 15, 1915 died Oct 19, 1955 > Cecil Edward - born Dec 7, 1916, died Jan 2006 > Sarah Matilda - born Oct 27, 1918 > Benjamin Victor - born Oct 18, 1923, died Aug 24, 1994 > Ruby Edith - born Sept 21, 1925 > > I noticed in one of the e-mails there was a mention of a Sarah > Ellis marrying a Robert Gilchrist. > My grandmother who married Robert William Gilchrist above - her > mother's name was Mathilda Jane Ellis and she married a Samuel > Victor Stewart. They were both born in Ontario, spent some time in > North Dakota I believe and then moved to Manitoba, Canada. > > Thank you and I hope this has been of some help. . . . . > > > > > > ==== GILCHRIST Mailing List ==== > To view listings of other GILCHRIST family histories, click on this > webpage http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/cleardex.htm >