Robert Gillan [SEP] date of death
Robert Gillan
The Very Rev Robert Gillan (1787-1879) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1873.
Biography.
Gillan was born at Hawick, Roxburghshire. His father, the Rev. Robert Gillan, son of another minister of the same name, was appointed minister of Ettrick on 11 May 1787 and transferred to Hawick on 30 December 1789. He retired from the ministry of his church on 7 May 1800 and died at Edinburgh on 7
has been claimed as 10 Aug 1874, however the date of 16 Sep 1866 is evidenced by his official birth record. He was educated to elementary level at Bourke, where his family moved after his father's alleged death when Stuart-Robertson was 4 years old. Despite the rumour that Robert senior had died during the 1870s in Queensland, Robert senior died on 3 July 1899 at George Street Asylum, Parramatta, New South Wales.
Stuart-Robertson undertook a number of unsuccessful retail businesses in Bourke and Cobar. During