Birth: 3 April 1806 Ponteland, Northumberland, UK
Father: John Gills 1780-1842
Mother: Ann Green 1780-1838
Christening: 4 May 1806 St Mary the Virgin, Ponteland, Northumberland, UK
Marriage: 18 April 1830 St Nicholas, Cramlington, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Jane James 1806-1885
Death: October-December 1881 Gateshead, Durham, UK
John Gills 1830-1836
Mary Ann Gills [Dye] 1833-1867
Isabella Gills 1835-a1861
John Gills 1837-a1891
Joseph Gills 1839-1911
Thomas Gills 1841-a1865
Robert Gills 1845-1925
Jane Gills [Clark] 1848-1924
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Robert Gills one giving his birth on 3 April 1806, and both his baptism on 4 May 1806 at Ponteland, Northumberland, parents John Gills and Ann Green.
His brother was born on 16 July 1808 and baptised on 17 August 1808 at St Mary the Virgin, Ponteland.
His sister was baptised on 4 July 1813 at St Michael and All Angels, Newburn.
His son was baptised on 12 January 1830 at St Andrew, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland when he was a husbandman of Eachwick.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of Robert Gills and Jane James, both of this parish, on 18 April 1830 at St Nicholas, Cramlington, Northumberland.His daughter was baptised on 7 April 1833 at St Andrew, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland when he was a husbandman of Eachwick.
His daughter was baptised on 22 March 1835 at St Mary the Virgin, Ponteland when he was a hind of Callerton Moor.
His son was buried on 11 December 1836 at St Andrew, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland when they were living at Eachwick South House.
His son was registered in July-September 1837 in Castle Ward, and baptised on 10 September 1837 when he was a husbandman of Eachwick South Houses.
His son was born on 6 February 1839, registered in January-March 1939 in Gateshead, and baptised on 17 March 1839 in Gateshead.
In the 1841 census as Robert Gill (sic - in the index, Gills on the original) aged 35 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Northumberland, and living with Jane Gill (wife?), John and Joseph Gill (sons?), and Isabella and Mary Gill (sdaughters?) at South Houses, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland.
His son was registered in July-September 1841 in Castle Ward and baptised on 24 October 1841 at St Andrew, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland when he was a husbandman living at Eachwick South House..
His son was registered in January-March 1845 in Castle Ward.
His daughter was registered in April-June 1848 in Tynemouth
In the 1851 census as Robert Gills aged 45 born in Newburn, Northumberland, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Jane), four sons (John, Joseph, Thomas and Robert) and daughter (Jane) in Saugh Houses, Belsay, Northumberland.
I cannot locate him in the 1861 census but his wife, daughter and grandson ware living in Stanton, Northumberland.
In the 1871 census as Robert Gills aged 65, born in Newburn, Northumberland, a colliery laborer, and living with his wife (Jane), daughter (Jane) and grandson (Joseph) at Byers Garth Cottages, Sherbern Hospital, Durham.
In the 1881 census as Robert Gills aged 77, born in Dissington, Northumberland, a coal merchant, and living with his wife (Jane) at 42 Grahamsley Street, Gateshead, Durham. Another family was living at the same address
Death of Robert Gills in FreeBMD in October-December 1881 in Gateshead (10A 425).
There are sixty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Robert Gills.
Ponteland is 9 miles NW of Newcastle upon Tyne, Eachwick is SW of Ponteland and just north of Heddon on the Wall, and some 14 miles SE of Cramlington.
Robert Gills was the father of Jane Gills, 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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