Posted by Wayne Gillie on 4/7/2007, 7:44 pm
142.177.83.153
McPHERSON & GILLIE
This was from Barbara Dorey & copied by Wayne Gillie.
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gillie, McPherson -- Guysborough County
I am 99.9% positive that I have information on this family. John C.(Charles?)Gillie b. 18 Dec 1815 m Catherine ISABELLE McPherson abt 1840 in Guysborough, NS, then they and the children they had to that point left NS and followed the "tribal" migration of James and Ann Catherine (Whitman)McPherson, their children, sons in law (John Ruban and James Thomas Wilson -- brothers)(John C. Gillie) and their children and my great Grandfather Edmund McPherson. They went first to Boston then after the outbreak of the civil war continued on up through Vermont to the St. Lawrence then along what is now called the Heritage Highway on the north bank to Reach Township near York (now called Toronto. Then they purchased Canada Company lots in the Huron Tract (the south eastern shore of Lake Huron and far inland)and homesteaded in the autumn of 1852. In 1882 John and Isabelle and surviving family moved to Kittson County, Minnesota homesteading the Township of Thompson.
After recently having been contacted by some descendants in the US I was looking for information on the previous generation in Guysborough when I found your notice. I would be interested in siblings and descendants and parents of John C.
Barbara Dorey
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