Gillespie Family History
Gillespie Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille
Easbuig (Scottish), Mac Giolla Easpaig (Irish), patronymics
from a byname meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gillespie Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gillespie families
 176 - 349  59 - 175 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gillespie families
|
684 - 1,366 229 - 683 |
1 - 228 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gillespie census records
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Gillespie Family Origin
Gillespie Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gillespie Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gillespie Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gillespie census records
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Military Service by Gillespie
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