William Gill and his
wife Mary Pope immigrated to
Within the first two years of arriving in South Australia their youngest
daughter Priscilla died at Tam O’Shanter in May 1848, their oldest
daughter married and their youngest son John Henry was born in November the
same year. Only months after John Henry’s birth William died in June 1849
at Tam O’Shanter aged 49. Mary was then widowed with an infant son, two
young daughters and three older sons by then teenagers. Mary remarried James
Hodson in 1853. She died 10 years later in November 1863.
William and Mary’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth married Isaac Pike in 1848
and had moved to
William and Mary’s fourth son Christopher married Kate Webber and they
eventually settled near Blinman at Gum Creek Station. William and Sarah lived
near Navan at a property called Angle Farm and John Henry settled near Gawler.
Mary and her husband Henry Warren Short remained in the Tam O’ Shanter
area and Eliza Jane and husband Eli Tanner remained in the Port Adelaide area
moving to
While some of the Gills farmed the land north of
This website covers four generations of William Gill and Mary Pope’s
descendants and is the result of several of William and Mary’s
descendants’ research into the family’s history including that of
Mauri Gill, Gillian Mercer, Graham J.
Gill & Anne Williams of South Australia, David Cullen of Tasmania and Myrna
Willis & Bill Keem of Victoria. Much assistance had also been received from
the generous subscribers of Rootsweb’s AUS-SAGEN mailing list,
https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/legacy/intl/AUS/AUS-SAGEN.html
Descendants of William Gill
Surname List
Index of Names
Sources (Bibliography)
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I would welcome contact from anyone
with a connection to these families.
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