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Descendants of E & M H Gillow #1.
Last Updated July 2010.
Edmund Gillow
Mary Hilder Kingswell
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Ruth Gillow Born 1878 Married, 30 April 1907, Westport, NZ to, Henry Aiken Young Died, 1963 |
| Hilda Gillow Born 1883, NZ Married, 1904, Westport, NZ to, Robert William Shalcrass Wellington NZ. Died 1945, Wellington, NZ |
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| George Gillow Born 1892, NZ Died 1953, Australia. |
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| Colin Gillow, died young of typhoid | |
| Bertha Gillow, died 21 July 1878, aged 2, of typhoid. |
right: Left to Right, Bertha Gillow, Mary Hilda Gillow (nee Kingswell) and Colin Gillow - Dunedin NZ, about 1875.
Below: Left to Right, Mary Hilda Gillow (sitting), Hilda Gillow (Standing), Ruth Gillow (Sitting), George Gillow (standing), and Edmund Gillow (sitting). Westport, NZ, 7 February 1904.
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above: George Gillow - about 1912 |
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| above: George Gillow, 1920, in Masonic Lodge regalia. |
George Gillow (1892-1953)
Born 1892, New Zealand
Married, Jessie May Adams (15 Jan 1899 to 22 Sept 1988)
Died, 16 April 1953, Australia
According to his son John Gillow in a 2005 interview, George Gillow was raised in the South Island and went to a NZ University obtaining a degree related to Electrical Engineering. He was present for the wedding of Robert Shallcrass and Hilda Gillow (his sister) in Wesport NZ in 1904 (he's left most in the wedding party photograph) He then went to Scotland and worked for a shipping company then on to the Middle East working for an oil company in the Arabian gulf.
He enlisted in the Australian Army (engineering corps) during WW1. It is unclear why he was in Australia but his wife, Jessie May Adams, was Australian. After the war he worked on Power Stations and later the power distribution for northern Victoria, Australia.
He is breifly mentioned in the Melbourne Argus on 5 July 1924 as having resigned as the Swan Hill electrical engineer.
During WW2 he was the air warden for Melbourne. By 1945 he was resident at 376 Barkly Street, Elwood, Melbourne and in that year both his childern married.
Was a Sapper in the Austrilan army in WW1 - service number 4338. On active service 1 June 1916 to 19 December 1918. Mentioned in Dispatches in May 1918.
In a 2004 interview with his New Zealand resident niece, she described him as; "He was very musical. On the penny whistle he used to play the most beautiful music on it. He never learnt music but my mother said that she’d sit down and play a tune on the piano and he’d sit down and copy it."
Their children:
John Edmund Gillow,
born 1 October 1920, Wonthaggi, Melbourne. Married Norma Kirkpatrick in 1945. Currently (January 2005) living in New South Wales, Australia. John Gillow was known as 'Gill' in the Navy, as 'Jack' among his relatives, parents and sibling and known as 'John' by his wife and children.
Lillias Jean Gillow,
Known as Jean,
married William "Bill" Charles Anderson on 22 February 1945 in Melbourne.
Hilda Gillow (1883-1945)
Born, 1883
Married, in 1904 to Robert William Shalcrass (1870-1931), in Westport, NZ.
Died, 1945 in Wellington, NZ. Interned at Karori Cemetery, {Area 06, Block A, Row 12, Plot 034}
Biographical Details:
The 1904 Wedding party photograph is here (with the Robert William Shalcrass details)
The photograph below is of the Shallcrass family about 1916 and likely to be in Nelson - possibly the Matai Valley. Left to Right (based on age); Jean, Audrey, Hilda (nee Gillow), Robert, Gertrude and Mary.
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| Above: Gertrude Shallcrass at right is from Margaret Austin's wedding in November 1939 - Gertrude was a bridesmaid. |
Children of Hilda & Robert W Shallcrass:
- Mary Shallcrass, b. 16 December 1904, d. 1992
- Audrey Shallcrass, b. 4 August 1906
- Jean Shallcrass, b. 22 December 1908, d. 1993
- Gertrude Shallcrass, b. 14 January 1914, d. 5 May 2003