Birth: April-June 1848 Tynemouth, Northumberland, UK
Father: Robert Gills 1806-1881
Mother: Jane James 1806-1885
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1873 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Husband: William Clark 1840-1908
Death: April-June 1924 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Joseph William Clark 1884-1957
An unknown child died before the 1911 census.
Birth of Jane Gills in FreeBMD in April-June 1848 in Tynemouth (25 458).
In the 1851 census as Jane Gills aged 3, born in Earsdon, Northumberland, and living with her parents (Robert and Jane), and four brothers (John, Joseph, Robert and Thomas) in Saugh Houses, Belsay, Northumberland.
In the 1861 census as Jane Gills aged 12, born in Hartley, Northumberland, and living with her mother (Jane - married) and nephew (Joseph Gills) in Stanton, Northumberland. I cannot locate her father or brother (Robert).
In the 1871 census as Jane Gills aged 22, born in Hartley, single, no stated employment and living with her parents (Robert and Jane) and nephew (Joseph Gills) at Byers Garth Cottages, Sherbern Hospital, Durham.
Marriage of Jane Gills and William Clark in FreeBMD in April-June 1873 in Newcastle T (10B 307).
In the 1881 census as Jane Clark aged 32, born in Ellingham, Northumberland and living with her husband (William) and nephew (Thomas W Gills) at 3 High Team?, Gateshead, Durham. (High Teams Farm was the location of Gateshead Workhouse.)
Her son was born on 24 December 1884 in Benwell, Northumberland, and registered in January-March 1885 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In the 1891 census as Jane Clark aged 42, born in Hartley ?, Northumberland, and living with her husband (William), son (Joseph William), nephew (Thomas William Gill), and a boarder (James Forsyth aged 24, born in Berwickshire, Scotland, single and putting in coal mine) in two rooms in Colliery Row, Whickham, Durham.
In the 1901 census as Jane Clark aged 53, born in Hartley Pan, Northumberland, and living with her husband (William) and son (Joseph W) in two rooms in Chapel Row, Marley Hill, Whickham, Durham.
Her husband died in January-March 1908 in Gateshead.
In the 1911 census as Jane Clark aged 62, born in Hartley (Panys - on the original not in the index), Northumberland, two children one having died (crossed out as she was a widow), and living with her son (Joseph William) in three rooms in Grange Road, Whaggs, Whickham, Durham.
In the 1921 census as Jane Clark aged 73, born in Gateshead, widowed, and living with a boarder (Robert Armstrong aged 22 years 5 months, born in Newcastle, married, and a Plater Ships employed by R & W Hawthorp Leslia Co Engineers & Shipbuilders but out of work) in four rooms at 121 Durham Street, Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland.
Death of Jane Clark in FreeBMD in April-June 1924 aged 74 in Newcastle T (10B 21).
There are thirty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Jane Gills.
Saugh House on on A696 22 miles NW of Newcastle. Stanton is SE of Blyth. Sherburn Hospital is on A181 4 miles east of Durham. Hartley Pans was the old name for Seaton Sluice
Jane Gills was the mother of Joseph William Clark, husband of Mary Armstrong, mother of Henry Rockett, husband of Doris Grieveson, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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