Brief Life History of Ebenezer
When Ebenezer Gillies was born on 16 November 1819, in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Gillies, was 50 and his mother, Christina Gibb, was 31. He married Esther Whitaker on 12 March 1848, in Monkwearmouth, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Boxford, Suffolk, England in 1851 and Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 24 April 1883, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Ebenezer Gillies in household of James Hunter, "Scotland Census, 1841"
- Ebenezer Gillis, "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Ebenezer Gillies, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1820 · """The """"Radical War""""."""
The Scottish Insurrection was a week of strikes and unrest with demands for reform in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The economic downturn after the Napoleonic war ended, brought increasing unrest with the Artisan workers in Scotland, seeking action to reform the government. But the insurrection was largely forgotten about, as attention was focused on the better publicized Radical events in England.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scottish Dugald, Alastair, Iain.
Scottish (western) and Irish (Wexford): variant of Gillis or McGillis .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Short Sketch Gillies' of Scotland
Our Gillies line comes from Scotland. Gillies is Gaelic meaning “Servant of Jesus”. EBENEZER GILLIES is our 2nd great. He was born in Blairlogie in 1819. His parents were JOHN GILLIES and CHRISTIA …
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