Read down below Coe Hill News for developments over the year in Gillespie genealogy records.  County totals are changed as records added.

COE HILL NEWS

Adding older obituaries:

• Rev Tom Logan                                                1927 – 2016
• Peggi Logan, Tom’s wife, nee Young.   1928 – 2020
• Rev Robert “Bob” Cottrill                          1941 -2019
• Daniel Johnson                                                 1966- 2021

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Added chart of McCaw families to Coe Hill Families – upper menu bar.

Added family photos for Melville, Stella & Mark Reid to tombstone page.

Added photo of Mrs.  MacNaughton on Obituaries A – Q page (upper menu bar).

Added photo of Nola Crosby & Norma at Upper Canada Village 1971 and one photo of her as a teen at Christmas to Harold Crosby Tombstone page

Added more photos to Charlie Jarrett’s tombstone page.

Added photo of Gordon McCaw, wife and daughter, and friends to his tombstone page.

Added photo of Harold Crosby house to his tombstone page.

Added two photos of Bill Reid, son of Melville &  Stella,  on their tombstone page.

Added tombstone photo for Robert & Winifred Woodley & rechecking all tombstone photos from fall trip, 2024.

……………………………………… Current Year News..…………………………

Death of Irene Bird, December 22, 2023 in Stirling  Manor. Celebration of her life,  January 6th, 2024 at 1:00 pm at Limerick Centre. Visits afterwards to 4:00 pm.

Death of Bill McCaw, son of Frank, on January 26,  2024 in Bancroft. Service was at Bancroft Pentecostal Church at 11:30 am on Saturday, February 3rd. Visitation from 10:30 am before service. His full obituary on Coe Hill Obituaries, A – Q above menu bar.

Carl Tinney of Faraday Township, died Monday, Feb 19th, 2024. Carl had a septic pumping business over the years,  and became Reeve of Faraday Twp. Cremation. A memorial service in the spring.  Lower Faraday Cemetery.

Obituary added for Michael McIllroy of Coe Hill, April 19, 2024

Obituary added for Charles Gary Hannah of Coe Hill, April 24, 2024

Obituary added for Mona Thompson (nee MacCauley) May 2024.

Obituary added for Bradley Cox, who died in Coe Hill on Sunday, May 26, 2024.

New firehall celebration and parade on Canada Day, June 1, 2024. Several reports online including equipment purchased for 24 firefights in the village of Coe Hill.

Obituary added for Arthur “Art” Martin, June 4, 2024.

Obituary added for David Jackson who died June 23, 2024 at home in Coe Hill. Son of Helen Jackson.

Obituary added for Everett Hilts, who died July 21, 2024

Obituary for Edith (Jackson) McCaw, wife of Dan of Coe Hill who passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2004. Visitation and Funeral at Mt Zion Church, Gilmour Saturday, July  27th. Burial St Michael’s Anglican Cemetery, Coe Hill. More details on her obituary.

Obituary for Roger Crosby of Coe Hill who died Monday, August 12, 2024.

Coe Hill Public School has won a 2024 contest, Stories of Peace video, $500 from the Canadian Peace Museum.

Angela Reid of Coe Hill School accepts the cheque from Chris Houston of the Canadian Peace Museum. 24 Sept Photos by Dave Raymond .jpeg   International Day of Peace is September 21.

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Note: Cemetery databases as too large for one page, so introducing an index of names in local cemeteries first, then adding outlying  ones under Coe Hill Obituaries R to Q.

……………………..      OLD PHOTOS FROM COE HILL………………….

Help identify children of Coe Hill Public School.

A.   Is this Grade 4, about 1954?

TOP: Coe Hill Public School. Bert Giles was the Principal.  I think we were ages 9 or10 and this is Grade 4 because we had moved into the Little White School House for Grade 5 (ages 10 or 11). This was the year my Daddy died.  I remember rushing home from this school all excited thinking he had come home, to be greeted with the terrible shock at the door.

• Back row left to right:  girl, Norma Gillespie, boy, boy, boy
• Next row forward:  Sheila Wannamaker, Nola Crosby, Sherryl Ferguson,  Eileen Neil,  Shirley Twomey, Sharon McCauley, Barbara Thompson
• Middle Row: Una Marshall, Marilyn Woodbeck. Linda Warner, Anna Marie Stephanuk, boy
• Front Row: boy, boy, boy, Bill McCaw, ?Terry__, Bill Sprackett

My class:

Back Row L to R: Barbara Thompson, Norma Gillespie, Una Marshall, Front Row: Nola Crosby, Linda Warner, Marilyn Woodbeck

B.  Class in the Little White School House – 1955?

Back Row Left to Right: Sherrill or Sherryl Ferguson, Brenda Keller, Linda Warner, Marilyn Woodbeck, Sheila Wannamaker, Shirley Twomey, Kathleen Anderson, Linda Silas, Joan Twomey

Front Row: Eileen Neal, Nola Crosby, Norma Gillespie, Gail Danford, Carol Hoard, Gaye Daniels, Una Marshall, Barbara Thompson

Boys in Window:  Ted and Bill McCaw

 

C. . Below,  a Kindergarten Class at Coe Hill School

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Help name these children . They look Kindergarten age, possible 4 years old. My younger brother, Glenn Gillespie, 3rd boy in from R. That would make it 1951.

D..  Below: Is this Bill Hocking?    If so, name his friend. (looks a bit like Bill Reid).

Answer Sam G: Could be his son Dick, who married Joy Lennox.

 

E. A Coe Hill Public School Outing. Name teacher and students. Where is the location of this stop? With a tent in background, could it be the Boy Scout’s Camp off Wollaston Lake Road?

 

F. . Coe Hill Public School

G. Another class at Coe Hill School below

I arrived in Coe Hill as a five year old, so this may be my first class in Kindergarten.

H. A baseball sports team at the Fair Grounds

Baseball Team:
Back Row: Sam Gillespie – Scott McMurray – Don Park – Gerald Garrett – Ivan Gunter
Front Row:  ?Geoff Gunter – Wayne MacKillican – Allyn Gunter (need help with other names).

I. A Hockey Team of Coe Hill

Hockey Coach: Sam Gillespie, in middle.

Group B: left to right

Mildred Bandy; Marg McCaw, Joy Keller, Betty Wilson, Hilda Bamber, Nancy Sedgewick, Maureen Cardona.

 

Group C:  left to right

Mary Lynn Hilts, Mary Garrett, Helen Jackson, Geraldine Woodbeck & at back ?  Darlene Garrett.

The new baby has arrived, Rebecca, with her parents, Norma & Allan McLean at the Coe Hill Farm 1984.

 

Coe Hill Children on a Bike Ride: Need help with identifying them, left to right:

Lois Vader…               

Preserving the history of Coe Hill through old photos.

GILLESPIE GENEALOGY RECORDS

Arranged by Country

Red Arrow indicates most recent work

AFRICA:               1

South Africa Deaths: 1

ASIA:                      2

China:        Arrest & detention of Australian Karm Gillespie since 2013 on death row. New link to Australian Prime Minister presents his case in New York 2019

AUSTRALIA – 330

Obituaries & funeral notices:  170

• Capital Territory:                  16
• New South Wales:              100
• Queensland                                19
• South Australia                        32
• Victoria                                            2
• Western Aust                               1
• NSW Births                                    4
• South Australia Births           48
• Queensland Births                   49
• Capital Territory  Marriages  1
• NSW Marriages                          34
• Queensland Marriages              3
• Tasmania Marriages                 21

The Family Tree of Gillespie/Daniels: From India to Australia  – 

CANADA – 213

Obituaries:  118

• Alberta:                                         13
• British Columbia:                     20
• Saskatchewan                               2
• Manitoba:                                        1
• Ontario:                                          20
• New Brunswick:                        48
• Newfoundland:                             3
• Nova Scotia                                     4
• Prince Edward Co.                      4
• Newfoundland                                3

BC Voters List, 1898                        13

• Alberta Births                                    1
• British Columbia Births               1
• Saskatchewan Births                     1
• Ontario Births                                11
• New Brunswick Births               19
• Nova Scotia Births                           6
• New Brunswick Land Petitions   4
• Nova Scotia Pioneer  1790          1
• BC Marriages                                      26
• Saskatchewan Marriages                1
• Ontario Marriages                               5
• New Brunswick Marriages              5
• Nova Scotia Marriages                       1

CARIBBEAN              1

Jamaica Deaths      1

ENGLAND:  11

Obituaries:    11

IMMIGRATION & PASSENGER LISTS:   5

1810 Immigration of 200 convicts from Ireland to Australia

1833 – arrivals in New Brunswick from Ireland

Queensland 1929

 IRELAND – 346

People in St Paul, Minnesota are searching their roots from the immigration of a Gillespie family from Castlebar, Co Sligo in 1898.  IrishCentral article.

Added note about the Famine Memorial in Dublin that was created by Dublin sculptor, Rowan Gillespie. The memorial  remembers the Great Famine (1845-1849), which saw the population of the country halved through death and emigration.

Obituaries;  138

• Antrim                                25
• Armagh                               21
• Belfast                                 12
• Carlow                                    2
• Cavan                                      1
• Cork                                         3
• Down                                       9
• Donegal                              12
• Dublin                                      9
• Fermanagh                            1
• Galway                                     1
• Kildare                                      1
• Limerick                                   1
• Londonderry                       19
• Monaghan                               5
• Tyrone                                     10
• Westmeath Deaths             5
• Wicklow Deaths                    1
• Co Armagh Births                  1
• Co Donegal Births                92
• Co Londonderry Bpt            13
• Co Tyrone Births                    49 (3 in 1700s)
• Co Donegal Marriages         37
• Co Londonderry Marriages  8
• Co. Westmeath Marriages    4
• Co Donegal Wills                          1

Local Donegal historian with video of Christy Gillespie, of Letterkenny, b 1962, a teacher with some of his own history.

MILITARY:    11

World War I:

• Canada      3 (2 New Brunswick soldiers; 1 Ontario)
• USA             6  Alaska

WWII:

• Australian Memorial rechecked – found 2 more names.
• Correction made for Henry Hoddinott from World War II to World War I (Coe Hill Soldiers)
• Checking Death Records in Canada and USA to find vets to add to military listing of soldiers during World War II.

REMEMBERING 80th Anniversary of D-Day & The Battle of Normandy

International Gathering on June 6 2024 in France

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CHARTING Gillespie military burial locations in Europe from World War I and World War II. Coe Hill Soldiers and personal family members are included,  but may not be listed here if database is too big. This focus is for Gillespie soldiers to encourage visits and filming of tombstones.

BELGIUM

CEMETERY	NAMES	GRAVE ID	OTHER SOLDIERS
Adegem Canadian War Cemetery	Arthur James Gillespie,		Glenn Gillespie IX. B. 10
Antwerpen Schoonshelf Communal Cem.	John Gillespie
Ardennes American Cemetery	Dana D Gillespie, US; Marcus Gillespie, US	D. 28.15	Gorace J Gillespie, US, C. 23, 21; Marcus Gillespie, US A. 11. 2
Bard Cottage Cemetery	A Gilasbey
Cement House Cemetery	N. A. Gillespie
Commines Communal Cemetery	James Gillespie, UK		James Gillespie
Dadizeale New British Cemetery	J Gillespie
Dozinghem Military Cemetery	Robert Wright Gillespie
Heverlee War Cemetery	William James Gillespie, UK
Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery	S Gillespie
La Clytte Military Cemetery	Charles J Gilhespie
La Plus Douve Farm Military Cemetery	J Gillespie
Mendinhem Military Cemetery	A Gillespie
Menin Gate Memorial	A Gillespie; James Gillespie. James Gillespie, Reuben Gillespie, Rollo Gillespie		Arthur N Gillespie; Charles Gillespie, James Gillespie,
Menin Gate Memorial continued..	William Gillespie, William James Gillespie, John Gillespie, McL Gillespie
New Zealand Memorial	Duncan Thomas Gillespie
Nieuport Memorial	George C Gillespie, UK		John Gillespie, UK
Nine Elms British Cemetery	H C Gillespie
Passchendaele New British Cemetery	Roy Gillespie, UK
Polgesteerst Memorial	Allan Gillespie, John William Gillespie
Railway Dugouts Cemetery	H Gillespie
Tyne Cot Memorial	David Gillespie; James Gillespie, John Gillespie		Findlay Martin Gillespie; Jessie Davis Gillespie
Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery	F D Gillespie, W Gillespie

FRANCE

CEMETERY	NAME	GRAVE ID	NAME2
FRANCE:
Achicourt Road Cemetery	Charles Dugald Gillespie	D13
Arras Road Cemetery	A J Campbell
Aubigny Communal Cem Extension	Victor Allen Gillespie	III. F. 16
Bagneux British Cemetery
Banneville La Campagne War Cemetery	Thomas G R Gillespie UK
Beacourt British Cemetery
Beney-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery	Wilbert Howard Gillespie CDN
Boulogne Military Cemetery
Brettsville Sur-Larze War Cemetery	Edward J Gillespie; William Leaman CDN		Henry T Gillespie; Hilton A Gillespie CDN
Cimetiere Communal de las Gorgue Cemetery	A Gillespie
Cimietiere de Marberge Cemetery	W D Gillespie
Contay British Cemetery	William Leaman Gillespie	II.B.14
Danville British Cemetery
Dominion Cemetery	Archibald James Gillespie	I. D. 4	Gordon Gillespie
Douelles Communal Cemetery
Drummond Cemetery
Duisan British Cemetery	Harry Gillespie	VI. G. 53	P Gillespie
Dunkirk Town Cemetery	William Gillespie, UK
Echoivres Military Cemetery
Etaps Military Cemetery	Maurice Gillespie	LX VII. J. 22
Fabourg D’Amiens Cemetery	Alexander M. Gillespie	VII. 7.3	Paul Evan Gillespie
Fosse No 10 Communal Cemetery	J. W Gillespie	III.A.4
Hersin Communal Cemetery	Duncan Gillespie	I.C.24
Houplines Communal Cemetery	W Gillespie
L. A. Chaudiere Military Cemetery
Levin Communal Cemetery
London Cemetery & Extension	David Bryce Gillespie	6. E. 3
Lorraine American Cemetery	Leduc J Gillespie, US		James Gillespie, US; William Gillespie, US
Merville Communal Cemetery	F S Gillespie
New Zealand War Cemetery	Robert Bruce Gillespie, NZ
Niagara Cemetery
Nine Elms Military Cemetery
Normandy American Cemetery	Edward J. Gillespie US; Fred E Gillespie US		Fred E Gillespie, US
Orchard Dump Cemetery
Ranville War Cemetery
Surcsnes American Cemetery	Harry Gillespie, US
Tilboy Bulster Cemetery	R B Gillespie
Toronto Cemetery
Trois Military Cemetery	N J Gillespie
Vimy Memorial & Cemetery	Hugh Gillespie, James Gillespie		James Henry Gillespie;
Vimy Memorial & Cemetery, Continued..	William James Gillespie		William John Gillespie

All Canadians except where noted.

GERMANY

CEMETERY	NAMES	NAMES 2	NAMES 3
Becklingen War Cemetery,	Robert J Gillespie, UK
Durnbach War Cemetery	Edward A Gillespie, UK
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery	Alan Gillespie, UK; Alexander Gillespie, UK	Anthony Gillespie, AUS; John R Gillespie, UK;	Robert G Gillespie, UK;Thomas Gillespie, UK; William Gillespie UK

 

ITALY & SICILY – all World War II graves

CEMETERY	LOCATION	NAME	GRAVE ID	NAME 2	COE HILL SOLDIERS
Anzio War Cemetery	ITALY	Frank Gillespie, UK
Castiglione South Africa Cemetery	ITALY	Robert Gillespie, UK
Catania War Cemetery	SICILY	Adam Gillespie, UK	I. E. 44
Coriano Ridge Cemetery	ITALY	Alex Gillespie UK
Florence American Cemetery	ITALY	Joe C Gillespie, USA		Larron Lee Gillespie, USA
Minturno War Cemetery	ITALY	Harold M Gillespie, USA
Salerno War Cemetery	ITALY	David Gillespie, UK
Syracuse War Cemetery	ITALY	Adam Gillespie, UK	I. E. 10	William Gillespie, UK
Villanova Canadian Cemetery	ITALY				Gerald Forbes; F Nash

NETHERLANDS (Holland)

CEMETERY	NAME
American Cemetery & Memorial	Glenn Gillespie, USA
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery	George Gillespie UK
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery	Andrew P Gillespie, CDN
Scoonselhof Cemetery	John Gillespie, CDN

 

NEW ZEALAND:  94

• Obituaries:                 37
• Marriages:                  57        (So many war brides 1940s)

SCOTLAND – 33

Obituaries:

• Aberdeenshire        2
• Argyllshire                  2
• Ayrshire                        1
• Bute                                 2
• Dunbartonshire       2
• Edinburgh                    1
• Glasgow                        7
• Inverness                       1
• Lanarkshire                  2
• Morayshire                   2
• Renfrewshire              5
• Stirlingshire                  2

Added early history of shipping Captain,  Alexander Gillespie from Fife, Scotland

Added links to family history of Captain John Gillespie, son of Rev John Patrick Gillespie, Scottish  Minister at Kirkcaldy,  & Lilias Simpson. Another son, Rev George Gillespie may have been the link from Scotland to Delaware.

New Database:  Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843 – 1900

USA – 628

Obituaries:  175

• Alaska                             4
• Arizona                           1
• Arkansas                         1
• California                        6
• Colorado:                         4
• Connecticut:                   1
• District of Columbia   1
• Florida:                             29
• Georgia:                              1
• Illinois:                                  3
• Indiana                                  2
• Maine                                    1
• Maryland                            3
• Massachusetts:               2
• Michigan                              2
• Minnesota                          1
• Mississippi                          2
• Nebraska                              1
• New Jersey:                        2
• New York                             9
• North Carolina:                4
• Ohio:                                       6
• Pennsylvania:                    9
• South Carolina:                 6
• Tennessee                         20
• Texas:                                      3
• Utah:                                       3
• Vermont                                1
• Virginia                                   2
• Washington:                        2
• West Virginia                    41
• Wisconsin                              1
• Wyoming                                1
• Georgia Births                      1
• West Virginia Births          1

Texas Marriages                     449 Gillespie,  but also Gilaspie, Gillispie, Glaspie,  Glaspey, Glasby.     1966 to 1975

Census 1900:  Alaska    2

WALES: 3

New information received about George Turland Gillespie (1917 – 2003) of Glamorgan, Wales.

Obituaries:   2

Miscellaneous:

Added Calendars 1800 to 2050 to left menu bar,  so you can find a calendar for the year of interest. Are you a Monday child? I am.  Just looked up my siblings…interesting.

August 2024 Summary

Visitor Interest since January 1st to Home Pages

(This fluctuates as research interest changes from time to time)

1st Africa               (Zimbabwe; South Africa)

2nd Ireland            (Donegal; Mayo; Derry)

3rd Canada             (Ontario, New Brunswick, British Columbia)

4th Scotland          (Ayrshire, Stirlingshire, City of Glasgow)

Largest Databases:  1st USA;  2nd Canada:  3rd: Ireland;  4th Scotland.  5th Australia.

November:  Introducing Mclean IT Services, a cybersecurity firm that protects this website.  I have often wondered why this simple site gets at least 17 hackers from around the world every day.

Records Just Added 2024

January 1st:                   From 2023                                        47, 058

January                                             76                                           47, 134

February                                          30                                           47, 164

March                                               797                                          47, 961

April                                                        4                                           47, 965

July                                                      482                                          48, 447

August                                                   71                                          48, 518

Total new records:                     1,460

Corrected Balance:                     1, 507                                      48, 565

September                                                22                                        48, 587

October                                                    150                                     48, 737