Humphrey’s brother WILLIAM

Ralph didn’t have anything on this William.  Marvin recorded his graves and those other people in that plot, while on a visit to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, looking for some people who had raised his father.  Marvin thought William might be a brother of Robert Allingham Gillmore, but because of the birthdate I believe this is very probably Humphrey’s brother William.   This William Gilmore (wife Margaret Sadler) and MAY NOT BE the brother of Humphrey Gillmore, he might be a cousin, but I have included them here because there was supposed to be a brother named William.  And per Marvin Gilmore's letters they are definitely relatives.  George’s daughter Maria (Gilmore) Earll was living with William’s daughter Rebecca (Gilmore) Welsh in the 1880 US census.  And Maria’s will in 1894 was witnessed by Susan (Gilmore) Gilbert, William’s daughter.  He was in Canada in 1835, and he had come to the United States before 1842.  With some clues from other parts of Marvin’s correspondence and lots of research, I was able to figure out who these people were and how they were related to each other.  Further research filled out the family further.

William was born in Sligo, Ireland in 1802 (possibly as late as 1808), and married Margaret Sadler in Quebec in 1835.  She was born in Ireland around 1815.  Their children were all born in Chicago starting in 1842, and, with the possible exception of Emma, they all seem to have stayed in Chicago.  He died in1875, she in 1891.  They are both buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago.  They had seven or eight children that I know of.

Hugh James Gillmore was born around 1841 and died in 1865.

William Gillmore was born around 1846 and died in 1907.

Emma Gillmore was born about 1851, and was living in Chicago in 1860 and 1870.

Another child name and gender unknown, possibly Emma, died on April 8, 1871.

Margaret Gillmore was born in Chicago, Sept 1842.  In 1860, she was living with her parents, and in 1870, she was living with them, but with the last name of Brown, so she must have married between 1860 and 1870 and either divorced or was widowed, possibly because of the civil war.  In 1874, she married Samuel Polkey.  He was born about 1834 in England and died in Chicago in 1903.  Margaret died in Chicago on 8 Nov 1928.  Their children were Samuel William Polkey, born 1875, died 1918, unmarried according to WWI draft registration; Hugh J Polkey, born 1878, died 1936.  He married Bertha Cadden in 1923, he was a physician, doesn’t seem to have any children; Unnamed child born March 1880, died before 1900; and May R Polkey, born 1883, died Sept 1962 in Florida.  May married Walter Carpenter Butler in 1911.  I didn’t find any children for them.

Elizabeth Gillmore was born in 1844 and died in 1919.  She married Peter Reid in 1870.  Their children were Elizabeth J Reid, born about 1871; Arthur P Reid, born about 1871, married Celia O Schiesswohl in 1912; May Reid born about 1878; Emma N Reid born about 1879; Edith G Reid, born May 1881; Marguerite Reid, born March 1886, died in April of that same year; Mabel S Reid was born about 1876.  She may have been married to someone named Wennemer, and this Mabel Reid may have been married to Frederick Julius Tower in 1896.  If this is correct, they had two children, Arthur F and Ruth E Tower.

Susan Gillmore was born in 1850 and died in 1904.  She married John Gilbert in 1870.  John was born in England in 1844, and died in Chicago in 1924.  They had 3 children.  William Gilbert was born in 1873.   Rebecca M Gilbert was born in 1876 and died in 1965.  George J Gilbert was born in 1874, and died in 1936.  He married Ruth D Montgomery.  She had been previously married and had a son, Irvin Charles Rodin.  She and George had a daughter Susan Ruth Gilbert, born 1926, died 1985.  Susan married Norman Berquist and may have had 3 children.

Rebecca Gillmore was born 1854 and died in 1938.  She married David H Welsh (1852-1925) in 1876.  They had the following children: 

William Harry Welch, 1878 till after 1947.

John G Welch, 1879-1929.

Josephine Rebecca Welch, 1890-1976.

David G Welch, 1892-1937.

Edward Gilmore Welch, 1893 to unknown.

George S Welch, 1881 to unknown.  George married Clara Preussman, born in 1886.  They had 3 children; David George Welch, Jan-March 1921; William G Welch born about 1924; and Marline C Welch about 1927.

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