Gillard/Robertson Genealogies
My mother was a Robertson. My father was a Gillard. Here's a jpg of my family tree. (Hit 'Back' to return to this index.)Robertsons and Bennetts
Arthur Robertson (1815-1896) and his children with Margaret Henderson (1812-?) father of ...
Robert Robertson (1853-1941) and his children with Mary Cairns (1861-1942) and
James Robertson (1841-1905) and his children with Frances Halls (1848-1924) father of ...
James Need Robertson (1877-1953) - some photos. He married ...
Christina Bennett (1880-1968) - some photos; she was the daughter of ...
Henry Bennett (1835-?) and his children with Christina Patterson; he was also greatgrandfather of ...
Coral Browne (1913-1991) - a scrapbook
Gillards and Hills
Nicholas Gaillard (1500-1547) and eleven generations of his Gillard descendants, one of whom was ...
Robert Dyer Gillard, father of ...
William Edgar Gillard (husband of Ethel May Hill, whose father was William Samuel Hill, who was also the father of Leslie Lewis Hill)
William Edgar Gillard was the father of William Robert Gillard and ...
David Michael Gillard (more photos here) whose wife was ...
Mary Linda Robertson Gillard (large collection of photos of her there) whose son is ...
Garry Michael Gillard
The particular Robertson family of which I am a member came to Australia in the person of Arthur Robertson, from Shetland, in 1863, with and followed by some of his children. Another of his descendants, Margaret Worrall, has produced an exhaustive genealogy of this family in book form.
The Gillard who came to Australia in 1854, from Martock, Somerset, was Robert Dyer Gillard. There's also a Gillard book - by Jeffrey J. Gillard.
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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