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ORIGIN OF THE NAME GILLOCK
By family tradition I have always been told I descend from Scotch-Irish on both sides of my father's and mother's people. Webster's Dictionary= SCOTCH-IRISH= of both Scotch and Irish ancestry; descended from lowland protestant SCOTS who migrated to Ulster in the 17th century. (NOTE: Scots or Scottish is the proper term according to my Scottish friends... SCOTCH is a whiskey not a nationality...So it is Scots-Irish.....nlp)
Lowland= land lying low in respect to surrounding territory; the southern and and eastern part of Scotland.
Protestant= a member of any of these bodies of Christians who are not members of the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Church; originally one of the party who adhered to Luther after the second Diet of Spires, 1529;one who oppses.
Protestant Reformation= The great religious upheaval in Western Christendom in the16th century which eslltedin the formation of the various Protestant Churches of Europe; the leaders were Luther in Germany, Calvin and Zwingli in Switzerland, Cranner in England, and Knox in Scotland; not members of the Roman Catholic Church.
Ulster= Northern Ireland the capital of which is Belfast.
Some have told of their family tradition that they descend from Spanish, German, French, and others with other thoughts, however none with facts. A cousin WILLIAM LAWSON GILLOCK b 1917, Bowers Mill, MO, did some checking= GILLOCK is SCOTTISH = GIL meaning water; Lock meaning LOCH, thus WATER LOCK, translated to English GILLOCK from SCOTTISH GILLOCH.
At the wedding of my wife's niece in Doylestown, PA,8-22-1976, her relative came from Scotland for the wedding and I asked him to check on the name when he went back, he did. His reply: I went to the Register House in Edinburgh, they gave me a book of Scottish surnames I did not find Gillock, but did find GIL and LOCK, I also looked through some telephone books, and did find a GILLOCH, THAT LIVES IN LONDON. I had my city library check on surnames, GILLOCK was not found. We have traveled a lot, checking many many courthouse records and have found the name spelled GELLICK, GELLECK.
A Barren Co., KY., historian wrote this letter to Felix Craft Gillock, 6-26-1953, living in Dallas, Tex. preserved by his aunt Mattie (Gillock) Smith, and passed on to me, reads (partly) "Your letter concerning local GILLOCKS handed to me by the Glasgow Times... I am interested in the tradition that a James _________ Gillock promoted a colony from Glasgow, Scotland to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and named Glasgow... Please write me how this tradition reached you.... information I have gathered bears out some of what you state.. I do have proof that a James Gillock and a Lawrence Gillock were here very early, about 1800, ... they are said to have fought in the Revolution .. two GILLOCKS become widely known Baptist Preachers"...end of letter.
Our cousin Glenna (Gillock) Farrell before I located her, had hired a genealogist to work for her to get in the DAR's, sources: PAT WOICOTT for Barren Co., Ky., William H. B. Thomas for Virginia, another for Salt Lake City, Utah.. finding: Husband William Gillock b ca 1725, place of Low Paisley, Renf. Scot; married 5-23-1750, wife Agnes Kerr, b ca 1729 place of Low Paisley, Renf. Scot; Obtaine: F Scot 6 Pt 133 Marriage Record. Glenna also contacted two searchers in Scotland, they did a lot searching.. pointing out the many names, and the corruption of spelling none near Gillock... giving the many sources they searched....... (NOTE: They couldn't have searched very well, I personally have found in Perth, Scotland, Gillock/Gilloch birth records, marriage records .. nlp)
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