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Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 12 Oct 2006 3:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Oct 2006 3:42PM GMT
I'm Steve Gyles. I lived in Vestal for 50 years and I have never heard of another Gyles family. They are(were) certainly not listed in the phone book

Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 19 Dec 2006 1:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
I have just started researching my husband's Grandmother, Katherine, who was married to James Joseph Gyles who lived in Endicott. He was born in Ireland in 1885 and came here in 1909. He lived in Endicott with his parents, brother & sister in the 1920 census. Am having difficulty finding out anything else about him. Do you have any info on this branch?

Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 9 Aug 2007 8:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
where in ireland was he born ?

Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 28 Aug 2007 9:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Not sure. Gram met him in NYC after they both got here. She was from Tipperary.
Bonnie

Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 29 Aug 2007 5:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gyles, Baldwin, Streno, Battista, Whitaker, Cron, Keane
My name is Sheila Gyles McCormack. I grew up in Oxford, NY. My dad was Sidney Joseph Gyles. My family always referred to the Vestal Cousins of whom I never met. Didn't some of them work at IBM?

I never met any cousins, period -- what a shame. I take that back I briefly "saw" them at the funerals.

Here is a brief reply to what I know. (I don't have the info in front of me)

They sailed on the SS St. Louis.

My dad came to the US with his mother Ellen M. Gyles, his aunt Annie Gyles, and his grandparents Stephan and Julia Gyles. This was in January of 1916. My dad was given the name of Gyles upon entry to the US at Ellis Island.

They lived in Endwell, NY.

Our Grandparents

Stephan Gyles was the son of James Gyles and Johanna Lonnard (leonard?) from Annestown, Waterford County Ireland.

Julia S. (Sheila) Gyles was the daughter of James Baldwin and Bridget Cohan. (Keoghan, Keowan) Annestown, Waterford County, Ireland.

My grandmother Ellen married 1 Sidney Westwood Orders 2 James Cron.
Aunt Kate was married to John Keane.
Aunt Annie was married to Pete Streno.
Aunt Alice was married to Pat Battista.
Aunt Julia was married to ________Whitaker.
Uncle James and Uncle John married sisters. (can't remember the names off hand, I think Uncle John's wife was Jenny and Uncle James wife Ellie.)

Grandfather Stephan's death certificate is filed in Vestal.

Just heard from a great grandaughter of Uncle John's, she lives in Florida. Another Cousin!!

Steve, by any chance was a part of Endwell ever considered part of the Vestal township?? Maybe that is the term the Vestal Cousins came from??

My dad would be pleased if he was still with us to know that we are searching for and finding each other.

I think we all knew different parts of the family, and the stories, so we need to all get together and put the info all together.

I'd be happy to volunteer to put it together in a genealogy format for all of us to have.

Send your info to: Sheila mack2001@charter.net

A few years ago I heard from a cousin in Ireland. He has since moved to Spain, and I didn't hear from him again. He descended from Grandfather Stephan's brother John in Ireland. On his birth certificate he told me they spelled his name Giles. It was an error but never corrected. SO only this end of the family keeps the Gyles spelling alive.

Hope to hear from everybody soon.

Sheila











Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 29 Aug 2007 5:54AM GMT
Classification: Query
Was James father Stephan & Julia Gyles from Annestown, Waterford County Ireland? Was Katherine's sister Jenny married to John Gyles?

If so, I descend from James sister Ellen.

Sheila Gyles McCormack
Mack2001@charter.net

Re: Vestal Gyles'

Posted: 29 Aug 2007 5:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
If you are referring to the family of Stephan & Julia Gyles the family came from Annestown, Waterford County, Ireland.

See reply to Steve.

Sheila Gyles McCormack
Mack2001@charter.net
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