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Marriages: A to M N to Z
Note: Ontario Marriages by year are now online
Note: Many children of Ontario Gillespie parents married in British Columbia
Canada Divorces 1841 – 1968
Deaths
- Northern Ontario, Ottawa to Ontario County
- York Region & City of Toronto – (new active link)
- Peel to Essex County
CENSUS: There are several websites that host records for Ontario census records. Library & Archives Canada has them all, but I found that the website shuts down overnight when I tried to use them then. Never tried a second time. Direct link is provided with 1931 census.
So I continue the early census links below to the Mormon website (for 1842 to 1891 census) who themselves used the information from the Canadian website. You need to register one time on familysearch.org.
1901 and 1911 census are excellent from automatedgenealogy.co for all of Canada. 1901 provides full birthdates. Sometimes immigration dates.
1842 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921
1931 (also provides access to all census at Library & Archives in Ottawa)
Earliest Gillespie Settlers to Upper Canada (Ontario)
Early Canadian History, (Upper Canada)
Recommended Reading: Pioneer Settlements by Edwin C Guillet, published 1947
Upper Canada Land Grant Petitions
Family History of Donald Gillespie & Catherine McDonald from Scotland to Brock Twp, Ontario
Diary of Malcolm Gillespie, Reeve of Cannington, Victoria County 1880 – His trip to Manitoba to visit relatives and friends.
Margaret Gillespie 1852-1938, d/o Donald Gillespie & Catherine MacDonald, Victoria County, Ontario – more details from Maybee Society website. (link lost, but try alternative searches for the Society.).
Ontario Gillespie Post Office Officials
Burke’s Peerage: Cecil Gillespie, daughter of Walter Gillespie of Toronto married Richard Scougall of Toronto, barrister-at-law, Captain late 48th Highlanders, Toronto, served in Queen’s Own Rifles 1879-1886, and was present at the action of Cut-Knife (medal with clasp) b Oct 5, 1859. Their children: Laura May; Helen Grace; Esther Waldron (see page 467, listed under CASSELS)
Index of Ontario Cemeteries with Gillespie burials
Family History of John Gillespie (1843-1932) & Jennie Taylor of North Dumfries Twp, Waterloo, Ontario – son of John Gillespie & Jean Adams from Scotland.
John Halliday Gillespie born 1882 in Morrisburg, Ontario. His father, stonemason James Johnston Gillespie & Sarah Halliday. Grandfather Thomas Gillespie built the first brick house in Morrisburgh 1850. More history.
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