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Zorviar Gillett

Female 1746 - 1783  (37 years)


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  • Name Zorviar Gillett 
    Born 18 Mar 1746  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 19 Apr 1783  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Main Road Cemetery Granville Center, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2269  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Thomas Gillett,   b. 16 Apr 1711, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Apr 1791, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Barlow,   b. 20 Apr 1719, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jan 1806, Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Married 12 Jun 1744  Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F891  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Today's Hampden County of Massachusetts was originally Middlesex County until it was split off in 1662 and named Hampshire County. Hampden County was formed from Hampshire County in 1812.

      BIRTH:
      1. Ancestry.com's "Massachusetts Town Birth Records" sourced from "Granville Vital Records" with parents Thomas and Elsebeth Gillet:
      25 Apr 1745 Elsebeth Gillet
      18 Mar 1746 Zuruiah Gillet
      14 Sep 1748 Thomas Gillet
      28 Sep 1749 Eli Gillet
      8 Mar 1751 Samuel Gillet
      12 Aug 1753 Zadock Gillet

      DEATH:
      1. Ancestry.com's "Massachusetts Town Death Records": Zorviar Gillet, d. 19 Apr 1783, buried at Granville, source is Vital Records of Granville, complete record: Zorviar, d. Thomas and Elizabeth, Apr. 19, 1783, a. 36, G.R.1. (Zediah, P.R.6.). Source information: "Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the year 1850," Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1914.

      BURIAL:
      1. Tombstone calls her out as "ZORVIAR" and clearly as the dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Gillett. She was not a male even though some of the birth records are conflicted on the gender -- some saying male, others female, and others unknown. See image of tombstone on Findagrave attached to Family Search.