Gillespie Births Marriages Deaths
See History articles below records.
See New Hampshire Births for Gillespies who moved there from Carbonear, Newfoundland – example below, also William
- Hilda Gillespie, birth July 15, 1897 Carbonear, Newfoundland, CANADA Father Jacob D Gillespie, Mother Susan Pearcy. Residence 1897 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
Gillespies of Newfoundland
“William, Samuel & John Glasby of Carbonear, 1785, property ‘possessed by the family for upwards of 90 years’, that is before 1695.
Alexander Gilespy of Harbour Grace 1821
Francis Alponsus Anthony Alfiie” Gillespie b Dec 30, 1929 d April 15, 2007 Saint Thomas of Villanova, Topsail, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland & Labrador
Julia Gelaspy of Riverhead, married at Harbour Grace 1829
Mary Gelesby or Gillasby of Harbour Grace Parish 1814
Mary Gillasby of Fortune Harbour 1830
Moses Clark Gillespie b unknown d June 4, 1923 Bethany United Church Cemetery, Carbonear, Newfoundland
Robert Gillespie Reid – 1842 to1908 history. From Perthshire, Scotland, s/o Catherine Gillespie & William Reid.
Thomas Gillespie from Greenock, Scotland, married at St John’s 1849
William Gillespie of St John’s, 1848
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Newfoundland Researchers:
Sarah Ash: Ash/Gillespie descendants in Newfoundland
Wendy Clark: Alfred Gillespie & Mary Harold to North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton
Roger Cole re: William Gillespie & Sarah Ash
William Chambers: re William Gillespie & Lillian Vatcher; William Gillespie & Susanna Clarke. Links to Massachusetts
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From The Untold Story of The Irish in Canada by Robert O’Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds, Vol 1
“The Irish, (especially Catholics), experienced severe discrimination in Newfoundland, once they began to predominate on the Avalon Peninsula. Efforts were made to relocate the Irish, especially fishermen. The government tried to prohibit the holding of Mass by imposing fines, and destroying property, even limiting the nunber of Irish allowwed to live in any one household. Many Irish became semi-outlaws in Newfoundland in the last half of the eighteenth century.
The early Irish immigrants to Newfoundland came from the counties to the south and east of Ireland–Wexford, Waterford and Tipperary–and settled in the southeast of Newfoundland. They were mostly poor Catholics, fleeing economic distress in the home land. They were young, the vast majority between 15 and 25 years old, single people and mainly unrelated to each other. Most were from rural areas, small farmers and their sons.
The most important period of immigration and settlement was from 1810 to 1835. Most of the Irish who immigrated during this period went to Cape Breton or elsewhere in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. In St Johns, Newfoundland the Irish population in 1774 was 2,000. By 1836 it was 14,000.”
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“A Newfoundland genealogist has stumbled onto a rare and mysterious DNA quirk that he says could tell the untold story of the island’s first European settlers. David Pike, a mathematics professor and genealogist, said the rare mitochondrial DNA profile caught his attention over a decade ago when it began popping up frequently in test results for a Newfoundland and Labrador genealogy project.
The profile — called H5a5, plus another unnamed mutation — is likely European in origin. Only a handful of people from Europe — fewer than 10 — have been found to test positive for the specific profile, and almost all those have roots in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The first British colonies were founded in the early 1600s, followed by the French, but Newfoundland had no sizable permanent settler population until after 1760, with an influx of English and Irish migrants whose descendants make up a large majority of the population today.
You can read the full story by Holly McKenzie-Sutter in the National Post web site at: http://bit.ly/2W9Cx18.”
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