William Bruce Gilbert (1862 - 1935)

Born 1862 in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Una Margurita Mary (Nixon) Gilbert — married about 1894 in Ireland

Husband of Evelyn Helen (Haig) Gilbert — married 1909 in Belfast, Ireland

Descendants

Died 1935 at about age 73 in Knock, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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William Gilbert was born in Ireland.

Biography

This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.

William married Una Margherita Mary Nixon in Scotland in 1894.

Belfast Newsletter, 23rd June 1894: GILBERT-NIXON: June 20, at Burntisland, by the Rev. William Nixon, D.D., of Montrose, grandfather of the bride, assisted by the Rev. George Macaulay, of Bewling, and the Rev A.W. Kinment, M.A., of Burntisland, William Gilbert, of Belfast, to Una Margherita Mary, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Nixon, of Barrhill, Ayrshire.^[1]

William and Una had two children together. Una fell ill and was sent to New Zealand to stay with relatives of her husband's, but she died there in 1901. A few years later William married again.

William Gilbert, a widower Merchant of full age, married Evelyn Helen Haig ,a spinster of full age, at Dundela in the parish of Holywood in County Down, on 3 Nov 1909 when both of Knock and with their fathers named as William John Gilbert and Jas F Haig both Merchants. ^[2]

1911 Census: Sandown Park (Pottinger (part of), Down) ^[3]

Gilbert William 48 Head of Family Presbyterian Belfast Seed Merchant Read and write - Married

Gilbert Evelyn Helen 27 Wife Presbyterian Co Down, Holywood - Read and write - Married

Gilbert Dorothy Helen Wolseley Daughter Presbyterian Belfast - Cannot read - Single

Knock is in east Belfast

Sources

1. ↑ Belfast Newsletter, 23rd June 1894, page 1
2. ↑ Civil Record Image on civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie
3. ↑ 1911 Census