In loving memory of my father, Sam Gillespie (1875-1954). In the search for his grave, I found a mystery that took me on a journey over a life-time that led to this collection of records. Who was the woman buried beside my father? Answer at bottom.
Read down as Gillespie records are added over the year. Counts are updated for each country. Summary at bottom of page.
AFRICA: 44
South Africa:
- Births: 1
- Marriages 33
- Deaths 9
- Family Histories: 1
- (see also Immigration & Passenger Lists)
ASIA: 58
China:
- UK Gillespie firm won international competition in China.
- Publication: Legal Reforms in China & Vietnam
- Births: 2
- Probate Records 1
- China Navigation Company Staff Report 1
- WWII Internees from Chinese Prisoner Camps released 4
India:
- Births & Baptisms 8
- Marriages 2
- Deaths 3
- Wills 2
- Bengal Orphans 2
- Medical Officers 2
- Bombay and Bengal Officers in Army 6
- Civil Servants 1
- Cadets 8
- Volunteer Rifles 2
- Miscellaneous Records: 11
Mynamar: (BURMA)
1 birth record
AUSTRALIA: 544
Births:
- Queensland 12
- Western Australia 4
Marriages:
- Queensland 20
- Western Australia 43
Deaths: 465
- ACT 11
- Miscellaneous: 31
- NSW: 248
- Queensland: 16
- Southern Australia: 12
- Victoria 91
- Western Aust. 56
- See additions to World War I and II soldiers databases
CANADA: 470
Births: 77
Marriages: 24
Obituaries: 320
Other: 12
1931 census for Yukon: 5
1921 census Prince Edward Island 32 (almost finished of 38)
Reset Photo of Plaque for Squire Malcolm Gillespie of Cannington, Ontario. (Somehow it had been removed unknown to me)
CARIBBEAN: 3
Barbados Burials 2
Martinique 1
CENTRAL AMERICA: 1
Deaths: Mexico
ENGLAND: 879
Births: 1
Marriages: 164
Deaths: 714
EUROPE: not yet
IMMIGRATION & PASSENGER LISTS: 36
- India 1820 to 1830; 1840 to 1851 = 14
- New Zealand 1842 = 5
- South Africa 1850-1859 = 1
- South Africa 1870-1879 = 1
- South Africa 1880-1899 = 11
- South Africa 1890-1899 = 2
- South Africa 1900-1909 = 2
IRELAND: 248
Births: 1
- Co Donegal: 1
Marriages: 5
- Co Down: 2
- Dublin: 3
Deaths: 241
- Co Antrim: 4
- Co Armagh 2
- Belfast 3
- Co Cork 2
- Co Donegal 111
- Co Down: 5
- Dublin 2
- Co Fermanagh 1
- Co Galway 7
- Co Londonderry 7
- Co Louth 6
- Co Mayo 62
- Co Monaghan 1
- Co Sligo 8
- Co Tyrone 10
- Co Westmeath 3
- Co Wicklow 3
Other: 1
MIDDLE EAST: not yet
MILITARY: 213
Civil War – 1 Confederate soldier
World War I: 116
- 8 new Gillespie burials in France, Belgium & on Memorials. Created a new page for World War I: Belgium burials. One new burial for Indian soldier.
- 43 Australia soldiers (National Archives of Australia)
- 75 New Zealand soldiers & reservists
WWII: 76
- Australia 20 soldiers found (rechecked Australian Memorial)
- Canada 36 soldiers
- USA: 20 new soldiers found.
(See Asia for World War II internees released from Chinese Prisoner Camps)
Korean War: 3 more soldiers.
Vietnam War: 1955-1975 7 more soldiers found.
Today, Nov 11, 2025, I honour a Vietnam soldier, Robert Gillespie Jr of Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, the only son of Robert Sr, (1917-1994) and Lois Gillespie (1919 – 2014), who were very involved in sending out a Gillespie newsletter for many years. (Newsletters In Library Archives).
Robert J Gillespie Jr, birth Jan 12, 1942. Death Aug 11, 1968 (in Vietnam). Burial Mount Hope Cemetery, North Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States of America. His photo with his record.
MUSIC
Lovely, uplifting songs to enjoy. Some piano teaching & Gillespie musicians.
NEW ZEALAND: 975
Births: 349
Marriages: 357
Deaths: 269
See also Immigration & Passenger Lists (left menu bar)
CONGRATULATIONS: 50,000th record added to this website was a New Zealand death on Feb 28, 2025 at 11:20am EST Canada
SCOTLAND: 424
Births: 9
Marriages: 5
Deaths: 409 including Islay and Shetland Islands
Other: 1
SOUTH AMERICA: 8
- Argentina: 5
- Guyana Birth: 1
- British Guiana Marriage 1
- Ecuador 1
USA: 806
- Alabama: (possible soldier of World War I)
- California: early immigration records: 19
Births: 95
Marriages: 9
Obituaries: 670
Other: 12
WALES: not yet
PERSONAL: My Family History (left menu bar)
Note: All Ontario Death Records have been separated into individual country pages for easier reading.
Monthly Summary
January 1 Beginning Balance 48, 929 Gillespie records
January 96 49, 025
February 973 49, 998
March 131 50, 129
April 81 50, 210
May 155 50, 365
June 791 51, 156
July 661 51, 817
August 726 52, 543
September 124 52, 667
October 274 52, 941
November 406 53, 347
December 291 53, 638
This website began Dec 6, 2016
WEBSITE RECORDS SUMMARY
Record totals will change over the year, and gives a glimpse at total records in each Gillespie database, month by month.
| LOCATION | JAN 1, 2025 | AS OF Dec 1 | TOTAL RECORDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRICA | 338 | +44 | 382 |
| ASIA | 574 | +58 | 632 |
| AUSTRALIA | 3,087 | +544 | 3, 631 |
| CANADA | 10,906 | +470 | 11, 376 |
| CENTRAL AMERICA | 40 | +1 | 41 |
| ENGLAND | 1,368 | +628 | 1, 996 |
| EUROPE | 138 | 0 | 138 |
| IMMIGRATION | 1,383 | 36 | 1,419 |
| IRELAND | 8,573 | +248 | 8,821 |
| MIDDLE EAST | 26 | 0 | 26 |
| MILITARY | 4,837 | 186 | 5, 023 |
| MUSIC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| NEW ZEALAND | 625 | +975 | 1, 600 |
| OCEANIA | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| SCOTLAND | 5,385 | +424 | 5,809 |
| SOUTH AMERICA | 61 | +8 | 69 |
| USA | 11,403 | +793 | 12, 196 |
| WALES | 121 | 0 | 121 |
| TOTALS | 48,929 | +4,418= | 53,347 |
Includes: Caribbean 58 3 61
Quiz answer: The love of Sam’s life, Minnie Elizabeth Gillespie (1876-1933) his third wife (m June 3, 1918 in Erie, PA) of Morewood, Dundas County, d/o William Gillespie & Lucy Beach, granddaughter of James Gillespie & Margaret Cameron formerly of Aberdeen, Scotland, who lived nearby in Chesterville. Family history of James and Margaret and also & his parents in Scotland from link. Minnie died of kidney failure, and her mother Lucy, a widow, came to help care for her in the east end of Toronto. Minnie’s father, William Gillespie, had passed away. Minnie lies in the grave beside my father.
