Hi Maureen
In case you don’t look at the IOM message board regularly, there’s currently a discussion relating to the Gill family of the Robert, butcher, who may have been a direct ancestor of your husband. I’ll paste in some links here for the benefit of anyone who might be interested in the future when these messages are archived.
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Link to first message in original thread about Elizabeth Sophia Gill:
www.isle-of-man.com/genealogy/messageboard/index.pl/md/read/id/553369
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Link to first message of a thread discussing the Robert Gill, butcher, who might have been the father of Elizabeth Sophia Gill b 1827:
www.isle-of-man.com/genealogy/messageboard/index.pl/page/1/md/read/id/556752
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Jean C