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I am in search of ancestors and descendants of my great, great, great, grand parents, John GILMOUR and Sarah BROWN. They were the parents of my great, great, grandfather Campbell GILMOUR (DOB 1807, Barony Parish, Lanark).
Campbell and his wife Jean (aka Jane) HARRIS (DOB about 1813, Barony Parish, Lanark) were married on February 15, 1827 in Kilmarnock, Ayr.
They were the parents of one known son, John (DOB 1846), and several daughters, Margaret (christened 4 September 1831, Gorbals, Lanark, and died as a small child), Elizabeth (christened 14 May 1833, Barony Parish, Lanark), Agnes (christened 11 Nov 1835, Lesmahagow, Lanark), Margaret (28 Oct 1837, Lesmahagow, Lanark), and Mary (christened 19 Sept 1941, Lesmahagow, Lanark). There may be other children as well.
John GILMOUR married Elizabeth WEIR (born about 1847 in Sanquhar, Dumfries), on 31 December 1869, in Crossford, Lesmahagow, in the Free Church. Elizabeth WEIR was the daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth WEIR (nee WEIR).
John and Elizabeth had several sons. Campbell (DOB 20 January 1868), Archibald (DOB 1871, died 1873), my grandfather, John (DOB 6 April 1874), James (DOB 1878), and William (DOB 1880). William is believed to have had a son William, who in turn fathered a son named Paul.
My grandfather, John GILMOUR, married Helen GRAHAM (also know as Ellen) on 31 December 1896, at Baird’s Hall, Bellshill, Lanark. Helen was the daughter of William GRAHAM and Jean MORRISON, married 7 June 1867, Kirkintilloch, Dunbarton.
Together my grandparents are known to have had three sons named John, Thomas, and Campbell, as well as four daughters named Jean, Elizabeth (Betty), Nan, and Etiel, AKA Ethel. Two other children died including their third born (name and gender unknown to me).
Official records from the Common Wealth War Graves Commission state that my grandfather was killed in action, 15 August 1917. He was a member of the 3rd Infantry Labour Corp, Seaforth Highlanders, and formerly of the Royal Field Artillery (Army #6794).
My grandmother, “Ellen” (Helen) and her children moved to 15 Wallace St., Nanaimo, Vancouver, British Columbia within a few years after my grandfather’s death.
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