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Record #13388
Name :
: Barbara Grant GILLESPIE (1892 - 1907)
  aka : Barbara Gellespie


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 6 Apr 1892

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 7 Aug 1907   Notes : General Tuberculosis
Abode (1) : Place of BirthScotland, Hamilton

38 Eddlewood Rows
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialEngland, Leeds, Brockville
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 17 Jul 1905
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Corinthian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Quarriers
NotesA birth registration was found for Barbara Grant Gillespie: Date: April 6, 1892, 1:00 am; Place: 38 Eddlewood Rows, Parish of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: James Gillespie, coal miner, and Mary Greenhorn, married September 26, 1877, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

A death registration was found for Mary Gillespie, married to James Gillespie, Coal Miner: Date: April 22, 1894 12:00 pm; Place: 128 Eddlewood Rows, Parish of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: John Greenhorn and Elizabeth McBride; Cause: Pernicious Anaemia.

In 1905, Barbara Gillespie, 13 (along with sister, Jane Gillespie, 11), arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of Quarrier children from the Orphan Homes of Scotland, and en route to Fairknowe, Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

On August 7, 1907, at King Street, Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada, Barbara Gillespie, 15, born in Scotland, died of general tuberculosis, duration 7 months.

Barbara Gillespie is remembered at The Brockville Cemetery Est. 1861 aka The Old Protestant Cemetery, Highway 2, West of Brockville, Leeds, Ontario, Canada on a stone "erected by the Fairknowe Scotch boys and girls in loving memory of their departed companions." 
ContributorsCreated : 2011-01-24 21:23:43 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-01-26 17:00:44 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
4455 GARDINER, Alexander Millar1891SCT,    , Hamilton Apr 1906 : Sicilian CAN Quarriers  
13388 GILLESPIE, Barbara Grant1892SCT,    , Hamilton Jul 1905 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
13389 GILLESPIE, Jane Blair1893SCT,    , Hamilton Jul 1905 : Corinthian CAN Quarriers  
4967 MCCUSKER, James 1909SCT,    , Hamilton Aug 1925 : Montnairn CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
23224 REID, Fred William1873CAN, ON_, Hamilton Sep 1882 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)