Sir Wiliam Gerrard

Father: Samuel Gerrard Mother: Sydney Gerrard

Possible Connection

Samuel Gerrard

Gerrard, Samuel (1767-1857), merchant, was born in Ireland in 1767, and came to Canada about 1787. He entered business in Montreal, and became a partner in the firm of Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy, later Gerrard, Gillespie and Co. This was one of the firms which financed the XY Company between the years 1797 and 1804; and through it Samuel Gerrard acquired after 1804 an indirect interest in the North West Company. When the firm of McTavish, McGillivrays and Co. failed in 1825, Samuel Gerrard was appointed one of the trustees; and it largely fell to him to unravel the tangled finances of the North West Company. His papers, which are now in the Sulpician Library in Montreal, naturally contain a vast amount of material of interest to the historian of the fur-trade. Gerrard died in Montreal on March 24, 1857, aged 90 years; and his wife, Ann Grant, who was the granddaughter of Richard Dobie, died in Montreal on October 18, 1854, aged 81 years. Their only surviving child, Samuel Henry Gerrard, died in Germany in 1858. For further details, see Charles Drisard, L'honorable Samuel Gerrard (Bull. des rech. hist., 1928).

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. III, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 396p., p. 28.

GERRARD, Pte. John Thomas (Tom), 130197 (6th Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf); formerly 30692 Royal Dublin Fusiliers); husband of Edith Gerrard; lived at Wesley Street, Oswaldtwistle; k.i.a. 23rd July 1918 (30); bd. Lijssenthoek Mil. Cem. [3, 4, 16]

Wiliam Gerrard b. 19/06/1518

Daughters

Sidney Gerrard (b. about 1554) married Sir John Wynne of Gwyder

Elizabeth Married John Leighton

Sir William Gerrard Lord Chancellor Of Ireland ¹ was born 19 Jun 1518 in Newhall, Ashton, Under Lym, Lancashire, England. He died 19 Dec 1558 in Ponty Pool, Gwent, Wales.

GERRARD James

Rank: Private 15496. Regiment: 8th Bn., King's Own Scottish Borderers. Died: Saturday 25th September 1915. Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel number: 53 to 56. Notes: of 114 Roman Road, Lower Darwen.

Birth: unknown

Death: May 14, 1916 

 
Note: Private, 4th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Only son of Margaret Alice Gerrard, of 25 Acton St., Bolton. Age: 19. Burial:
Cambrin Military Cemetery
Pas de Calais, France
Plot: F. 16. 
Record added: Dec 22 2006
By: Paul F. Wilson

Birth: unknown

Death: Sep. 8, 1914 

 
Note: Private, Irish Guards. Age: 20. Burial:
La Ferte-sous-Jouarre (CWCG) Memorial
Seine et Marne, France
Plot: No Known Grave; name is listed on the Memorial. 
Record added: Nov 7 2005
By: Paul F. Wilson

Birth: 1867

Death: 1922 
 Burial:
Taylorsville Memorial Park Cemetery
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Utah, USA 
Record added: Feb 2 2000
By: Utah State Historical Society

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