Searches Into the History of the Gillman or Gilman Family: Including the Various Branches in England, Ireland, America and Belgium. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander W. Gillman   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I 'he history of the Gillman or Gilman Family was until recently almost entirely unknown. Genealogists appear to have overlooked the name or not considered the family of sufficient importance to chronicle. The peculiarity of the name, and the fact that there are so few Gilmans or Gillmans living in England, encouraged the writer to hope that it would be possible to trace out the history of his own immediate family further than his knowledge extended when he commenced the investigation, which reached but little further back than his grandfather, James Gillman, the Surgeon of Highgate, with whom the poet and philosopher, S. T. Coleridge, found a home of peace and lived as an honoured guest during the last eighteen years of his life. In the course of the investigation the writer became acquainted with a Mr. Daniel Gillman, of Anne Mount, Co. Cork, who had been engaged in a similar work for some years in respect to the Irish branch of the family. Mr. Daniel Gillman had, after much labour and many years of search from old wills, &c., traced out his family and that of Sir John St. Leger Gillman, Bart., who died in 1816, to a John Gillman or Gilman, who came from England at the close of the sixteenth century, probably with the Earl of Essex in his useless expedition of I 599.

Searches Into the History of the Gillman or Gilman Family: Including the Various Branches in England, Ireland, America and Belgium. E-book. Formato PDF Alexander W. Gillman   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the next will that of John Gilmyn the Elder, we find the family 27 miles north-west of Norwich, or at Little Walsingham. He desires to be buried at the Church of All Hallows, Little Wal singham, before the Image of our ladye in the Wall. This was a most noted place of pilgrimage, Kings and Queens of England and distinguished foreigners from all parts of Europe resorting hither to pay their devotions at the famous shrine of our Lady of Walsingham. The last regal devotee was Henry VIII., who, in the second year of his reign, a.d. 1510, walked barefoot to the shrine from Barsham, a village distant about three miles. The King, however, a few years later (1538) very ungallantly caused the image to be burned at Chelsea.