[Ancestor] Gillett

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Husband [Ancestor] Gillett

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1 M Isaac Gillett ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Stevens (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Gillett

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Gillett as a surname from Guillot, the French surname for William, may have been brought into England with William the Conqueror from Gilliste, a town in Piedmont, France. According to Guppy in his "Homes of Family Names," 1890, the name Gillett "is now found chiefly in Oxfordshire, Kent and Somersetshire." In Lincolnshire it is found changed to Gilleart and Gillyett. In the thirteenth century, in Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire, it is found as Gillot, Gillote and Gilot. At various times it is found in England as Gillet, Gillett, Gillette, Gyllot, Gilliot. Later in the United States it continued in all its English forms. Families nearly related vary the spelling, but Gillett, Gillette and Gillott are the common forms.

The founder of this family was Jonathan Gillett, who settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, removing about 1636 to Norwich, Connecticut. ²

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1584.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1583.