John Gillies (1811 - 1888)

Born 2 Nov 1811 in Banton, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Cullen (Bain) Gillies — married 4 Jan 1839 in Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 11 Aug 1888 at age 76 in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

In 1821 John Gillies emigrated from Banton, a small village near Kilsyth^[1], Stirlingshire, Scotland to Lanark County, Upper Canada (Ontario) with his parents James Gillies and Helen Stark .^[2] He married Mary Cullen Bain in 1839.^[3]

In 1842 he established a sawmill on the Clyde River^[4]. The community that grew up around the mill was called Gillies Mills until the business was sold to the Herron brothers in the 1870s and renamed Herrons or Herron's Mills. By that time John ran the business with his four sons, William, James, John and David. After the sale, they moved their lumbering business to Braeside on the Ottawa River. Gillies Bros. became one of the largest lumber producers in the Ottawa Valley.^[5]

John died in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, in 1888.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Kilsyth,_Stirlingshire,_Scotland_Genealogy
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Herron's Mills, Ontario," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herron%27s_Mills,_Ontario&oldid=877879990 (accessed February 10, 2019).
3. ↑ "Ontario Marriages, 1800-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2PT-TPX : 10 February 2018), John Gillies and Mary Bain, Jan 1839; citing , Bathurst District, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,030,051.
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101008052004/http://www.lib.uwo.ca/programs/companyinformationcanada/ccc-gillies.html
5. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Herron's Mills, Ontario," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herron%27s_Mills,_Ontario&oldid=877879990 (accessed February 10, 2019).
6. ↑ "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDX8-VTR : 9 March 2018), John Gillies, 11 Aug 1888; citing Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, cn9115, Registrar General. Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,853,489.

See also:

• "Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWT4-31T : 3 August 2016), John Gillis, Lanark, Lanark County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada; citing p. 7, line 41; Library and Archives Canada film number C_11732, Public Archives, Ontario.
• "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQWQ-CL9 : 5 September 2017), John Gillis, Lanark, Lanark, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 12, line 23; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1042-1043, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,862.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Les Horn for starting this profile.