Birth: 24 November 1806 Hebburn (Hebron), Northumberland, UK
Father: Thomas James 1750-1832
Mother: Mary Hogg 1780-1852
Christening: 11 January 1807 St Cuthbert, Hebburn (Hebron), Northumberland, UK
Marriage: 18 April 1830 St Nicholas, Cramlington, Northumberland, UK
Husband: Robert Gills 1806-1881
Death: October 1885 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK
Burial: 2 November 1885 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
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for the birth of Jane James on 24 November 1806 and her baptism on 11 January 1807 at Hebburn (near Morpeth), Northumberland, parents Thomas James and Mary Hogg.
Entry in FreeReg for the birth of Jane James on 24 November 1806 and her baptism on 11 January 1807 at St Cuthbert, Hebburn, Northumberland, parents Thomas and Mary James formerly Hogg, listed as Jane James, 4th d Thomas James, Parish Clerk, N of Hebburn, by Mary Hogg, N of Felton.
Her son was baptised on 12 January 1830 at St Andrew, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland when they were living in Eachwick.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of Jane James and Robert Gills, both of this parish, on 18 April 1830 at St Nicholas, Cramington, Northumberland.
Her daughter was baptised on 7 April 1833 at St Andrew, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland when they were living in Eachwick.
Her daughter was baptised on 22 March 1835 at St Mary the Virgin, Ponteland when they were living at Callerton Moor.
Her son was buried on 11 December 1836 at St Andrew, Heddon On The Wall, Northumberland when they were living at Eachwick South House.
Her son was registered in July-September 1837 in Castle Ward, and baptised on 10 September 1837 when they were living at Eachwick South Houses.
Her son was born on 6 Feberuary 1839, registered in January-March 1939 in Gateshead, and baptised on 17 March 1839 in Gateshead.
In the 1841 census as Jane Gill (sic - in the index, Gills on the original) aged 30 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Northumberland, and living with Robert Gill (husband), John and Joseph Gill (sons), and Mary and Isabella Gill (daughters?) at South Houses, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland.
Her 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 they were living at Eachwick South House.
Her son was registered in January-March 1845 in Castle Ward.
Her daughter was registered in in April-June 1848 in Tynemouth.
In the 1851 census as Jane Gills aged 46, born in Nord, Hebburn, and living with her husband (Robert), four sons (John, Joseph, Thomas and Robert) and daughter (Jane) in Saugh Houses, Belsay, Northumberland.
In the 1861 census as Jane Gills aged 54, born in Distington, Northumberland, an agricultural labourer's wife and head of household, and living with her daughter (Jane) and grandson (Joseph) and living in High Lineum, Stanton, Northumberland. I cannot locate her husband.
In the 1871 census as Jane Gills aged 64, born in Hebron, Northumberland, and living with her husband (Robert), daughter (Jane) and grandson (Joseph) at Byers Garth Cottages, Sherbern Hospital, Durham.
In the 1881 census as Jane Gills aged 76, born in Hebron, Northumberland, and living with her husband (Robert) at 42 Grahamsley Street, Gateshead, Durham. Another family was living at the same address.
Her husband died in October-December 1881 in Gateshead.
Death of Jane Gills in FreeBMD in October-December 1885 in Newcastle T (10B 13).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for the burial of Jane Gills on 2 November 1885 aged 79 in Durham.
There are fifty nine entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Jane James.
Hebburn, now called Hebron, was a chapelry in the parish of Bothal and is 3 miles north of Morpeth. Eachwick is 9 miles NW of Newcastle upon Tyne and just north of Heddon on the Wall, and some 14 miles SE of Cramlington.
Jane James was the mother 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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