Well here goes!! Fingers crossed someone can help:
My father Leonard Gillett was born in Wortley, Sheffield on 29/5/04
He apparently left home as a lad as he didn’t get on with his father. He refused to ever have anything to do with him/them again. He spoke (to mother) about being ‘one of many’, which she had thought was 7 or 8. On his Birth Certificate it says his father was a Mineral Water maker.
Grandfather was George Gillett d.o.b 1874 in Preston. Married Louise Bonnell Minor (dob 1874, Hyde, Ches.) I had traced that George was one of 11/12.
Leonard was one of 7.
Nellie 1898
Clifford 1899
Frederick 1900
Lizzie 1901
Nora(h) 1903
Frank (Francis?) 1903 (?)
Arthur 1906 On 1911 census, there is also
Norman 1905
Kathleen 1910
(No mention of Arthur who would have been little)
Leonard married Mary Hepburn (my mother) in 1937. On the marriage cert. it says George is a Cutlery Manufacturer. No mention was ever made of any of his relations, until in 1956 as a teenager I was going down to Devon and father said ’you can go and visit your aunt …….? in Paignton’. But I can’t remember her name!
I’ve been trying to find out who the various sisters and brothers married in order to trace a relation! With little success.
That’s fathers side – Mother’s is a similar story
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
There's a WW1 service record on Ancestry for a Clifford Gillett aged 17 from Sheffield; as the name's fairly unusual he may well be yours. I've had a quick look at the first two pages; unfortunately it's very faded and hard to read. Next of kin looks like George Gillett, though.
The only children at home with George and Louise in 1911 seem to be Clifford, Frederick, Leonard, Norman and Kathleen, so Nellie, Lizzie, Nora and Frank are missing.
This seems to be Frank's birth, and I can't see a likely death for him before 1911. Are you sure he and Nora are both yours, though? Their births seem to be too close together.
There's a Frank on the 1911 census who would appear to be the son of a Frank and Lizzie Gillett. Frank jr is 7 and they are living in Ecclesall Bierlow.
Are you sure Nellie's one of yours? There is a Nellie Gillett born in Sheffield, but she's not with George and Louise in 1901 (only Clifford and Frederick are with them).
I'm guessing that you've assumed that all the Gillett children born in the Sheffield area at around the right time are the children of George and Louise, which doesn't seem to be the case.
Clifford, Frederick, Leonard, Norman, Kathleen and Eleanor will be theirs; Lizzie and Frank aren't, and Nellie, Nora and Arthur are doubtful without a cert.
Originally posted by Merry Monty MontgomeryView Post
There's a Frank on the 1911 census who would appear to be the son of a Frank and Lizzie Gillett. Frank jr is 7 and they are living in Ecclesall Bierlow.
Well I thought that too about Nora and Frank - being too close. :(
But I got so confused with all of Grandfather George's lot as well as Dad's lot, I really got lost.
Dorothy G
searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow
Did you get the 1911 census image for George and Louise's family? That should tell you how many children they had in total, and how many were still alive in 1911.
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