Family:Robert Gillies and Gean Sinclair (1)

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Parents: John Gillies and Unknown
Robert Gillies
b. 12 Sep 1821 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
d. 6 Oct 1866 Farmington, Davis County, Utah Territory
 
Gean Ann Sinclair
b. 5 May 1816 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
d. 25 Aug 1899 Circleville, Piute County, Utah
m. 17 Dec 1844 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Facts and Events
Marriage? 17 Dec 1844 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Children
BirthDeath
1.
John Moroni Gillies
13 Nov 1845 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Abt 1857 Utah?
2.
Daniel Sinclair Gillies
3 May 1847 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
29 Dec 1907 Green River, Emery County, Utah
3.
Ann Campbell Gillies
12 Jul 1847 Glasgow, Midlothian, Scotland
1 May 1905 Panguitch, Garfield County, Utah
4.
Christina Gibb Gillies
8 May 1853 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
10 Feb 1924 Beaver, Beaver County, Utah
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FROM: Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume Two, 1848-1852 (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University, 2005).

607-609: "Diary of Appleton M. Harmon," 1:139. Harmon appears to write "Br. Gilldice" in his diary, but he probably meant "Br. Gillice." This undoubtedly refers to Robert Gillies, the president of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne branch, who was born in Scotland, September 12, 1819, joined the Church in 1842, and presided over the North Shields branch in 1848 and the Easington Lane branch in 1853. Immigrating to Utah in 1856, he eventually settled in Beaver and died in Farmington, October 6, 1866. John S. Higbee notes in his journal that Robert Gillies and "a Mr. Mill" had a debate on October 21, and Gillies and "a mr thurlway" debated on November 1.

Millennial Star 10:55-56, 278; "Diary of Appleton M. Harmon," 1:179. Ancestral File, UPB. Temple Index Bureau, microfilm, UPB. Half-Yearly Report of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Conference . . . May 14th and 15th, 1853 (London, 1853), 15. "European Emigration Card Index," microfilm, UPB. "Utah Immigration Card Index," microfilm, UPB. J. R. Kearl, Clayne L. Pope, & Larry T. Wimmer, Index to the 1850, 1860 & 1870 Censuses of Utah (Baltimore, Md., 1981), 132. J. Cecil Alter, Utah: The Storied Domain (Chicago & New York, 1932), 3:282. "Journal of John S. Higbee," vol. 3, 21 October, 1 November 1851.

Pioneer Journey of Ann Campbell Gillies and Family

The Gillies family originally prepared to travel west with the William B. Hodgetts handcart company, which left Iowa City August 1, 1856. All the family, except the grandfather, John Gillies (age 83 at the time), appear on the roster. However, they decided to stay the winter, possibly to let the grandfather regain his health.

They then came west with the Jesse B. Martin handcart company in June 1857. Grandfather John died at the crossing of the Elk Horn River in Nebraska and was buried 1 July 1857 [from the Journal of Jesse Bigler Martin and Robert McQuarry Journal]. The family left the handcart company on July 17 and returned to the Genoa settlement.

Jesse B. Martin Company (1857) Departure: 1-3 June 1857 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 12 September 1857

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