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Best Regards to all of you!
Janet & Terra

FAMILY ROOM

WHAT'S NEW IN THE GILLIES FAMILY TREE?

WOO HOO!!!

Another new addition to our family.

Gavin Michael Hemphill

August 18, 2008

1:05 a.m.

7 pounds 9 ounces

20 inches

Enjoy and prosper in life kiddo.

Congrdulations to the proud Grandparents...Janice and Richard Camacho!!!

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Another new addition to the family.
Her name is Brianna Lynn Sifton.

She is brand spanking new at 2 weeks old.

We say to her..."Go take the world by tail girl".
Our congratulations go to James Edward Sifton and his wife.

Also to Debra Sifton the grandmother.

It is always amazing how families seem to increase in numbers.

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Our Boarders Are Growing...

YIPPEE!!!

JEANNE..............JANICE
(GILLIES)...........(GILLIES)
LACKEY.............CAMACHO

Two more cousins have recently been located.
Actually, it was Mary Margaret Becker and her husband, George,
who found them.
However, it turns out
that they were searching for the rest of the Gillies family.

Their names are Jeanne Lackey whose husband's name is Bill, and Janice Camacho whose husband's name is Richard.

They are both the daughters of our Uncle Donald Gillies.

I would like to say to them...

"Welcome aboard our great family and we hope to see you at the next Family Re-union".

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B I R T H D A Y

HAPPENINGS

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WEDDING

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ANNIVERSARY

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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BRIAN GILLIES

DEBRA (GILLIES) & SIFTON FAMILY

GARY GILLIES & FAMILY

GREGORY GILLIES & FAMILY

JANET (GILLLIES) & MEARS FAMILY

JANICE (GILLIES) & CAMACHO FAMILY

JEANNE (GILLIES) & LACKEY FAMILY

MARY MARGARET (GILLIES) & BECKER FAMILY

MICHAEL GILLIES & FAMILY

RANDY GILLIES & FAMILY

ROBERT L. GILLIES III & FAMILY

SHERRY GILLIES-FEAKES & FAMILY

TRIVIA

The Lion Rampart

For Offical Use Only - however,
despite it being against the law to use otherwise,
it is flown and waved at sports events

CLAN MAP

YOU CAN DOUBLE CLICK LEFT MOUSE
BUTTON ON MAP TO ENLARGE.

The Gillies Clan Tartans

The MacPherson Crest

Pronunciations:

Gillies...gil-ēz or gil-is? The "e" in Gillies is silent---someone once said that it is a Scottish thing---but that it never affects the spelling. That being said, the correct pronunciation is gil-is.



The Meaning Of Our Surname:

The name Gillies in Gaelic terms means ' Servant of Jesus'. The name has been recorded since the early twelfth century and was mainly a surname from the thirteenth century onwards. The Gillies family were of immense talent in the nineteenth century when they began to flourish. Lord Gillies, Adam, was a judge and his brother a historiographer royal for Scotland. Margaret, their niece, was a painter and Sir William Gillies followed in the same footsteps and became a Scottish landscape painter, whose work is one of the best in Scotland today. It is now well known throughout Scotland and in some other parts of the world.