A Gillard Genealogy 1500-
Nicholas Gaillard b. 1500, Normandy, d. 1547 Pitminster, Somerset m. Johannes Sevenocke 1524 in Pitminster Nicholas Gaillard b. 1525, Pitminster, Somerset m. Joan Brixton b. 1529 Nicholas Gaylard m. Johanne Newman 23 June 1572: 5 children: Agnes, John, Robert, Thomas, Avies Robert Gaylard (Gayllard) b. 1578 m. Edyth Wotton 3 May 1613: 4 children: Robert, Elenor, Thomas, John Robert Gayllard b. 1614, m. Elizabeth?: 3 children: Robert, John, Thomas Thomas Gyllard b. 1655 m. Anne?: 4 children: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Robert Robert Gillard m. Mary Priest c. 1718: 6 children: William, Robert, Thomas & John, Elizabeth, Thomas, Henry William Gillard b. 1719 m. Barbara Cox: 6 children: William, Elizabeth, Robert, John, Henry, Mary Robert Gillard bapt. 20 January 1765 m. Elizabeth Hill 15 April 1792: 3 children: Joel, Ruth, Vincent Vincent Solomon Gillard b. 1803 m. Mary N. Dyer: 3 children: Robert Dyer, Sarah, Susan Robert Dyer Gillard b. 1830: nine children: Robert Henry Gillard, Elizabeth Mary Arabella Gillard, Eugene Thomas Vincent Gillard, George Edward Gillard, William Edgar Gillard (with first wife Martha McGrath) Arabella, Ellen Ann, Ernest William and Avernus Deiphobus (with second wife Bertha Cribb) no issue from third marriage to Grace Maling (she already had a son, Charles H. Maling) William Edgar Gillard m. Ethel May Hill (daughter of William Samuel Hill: 2 children: William Robert, David Michael David Michael Gillard m. Mary Linda Robertson (daughter of James Need Robertson): one child: Garry Michael Garry Michael Gillard m. Jennifer Lynne Nash: two children: Eleanor and Sarah - now Katherine
References
Coate, Yvonne E. & Kevin Coate 2000, More Lonely Graves of Western Australia, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, WA.
Gillard, Jeffrey J. 1978, Thick on the Ground: A Story of Van Diemen's Land and of Free Settler George Gillard, his ancestors and descendants 1572-1809-1978 (with brief references to other early Australian Gillard families), Printed [privately] for the Author in Melbourne Victoria, Limited Edition.
Palmer, Alex 2006, Yundamindra: Its Towns, Mines, People and Station, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, WA.
Worrall, Margaret 2004, The Folk from the Wind Wound Isle: The Story of Margaret Henderson and Arthur Robertson and their Descendants in Australia, privately published, Whitfield, Cairns.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the many relatives who did the real work reflected on this website, on this page and elsewhere: Jeffrey J. Gillard, Margaret Worrall, Jessica Worrall, Adrian Spall, Barbara Cohen, Joyce Hargreaves, Steward Hogan, Raymond Burt, Lillian Sprouting, Ronda Wicks (Eller), and her Gillard family pages (now gone from her page but still available from the archive).
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