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Thomas Baillie

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Thomas Baillie

Birth
England
Death
20 May 1863 (aged 66)
Boulogne, Departement de la Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France
Burial
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada Add to Map
Plot
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HEADSTONE says Hon. Thomas Baillie. Says born 1795; dictionary says 1796.

DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ONLINE http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4276&&PHPSESSID=o774ev7lrjfr2u6hekqvigft63 for Baillie, Thomas says he was a colonial administrator and office-holder. Born Oct 4 1796 at Hanwell, Middlesex, England, son of Captain William Baillie of the 51st Light Infantry and magistrate at Hanwell; died May 20 1863 during a holiday at Boulogne, France. He joined the army in April 1815 as a lieutenant in a Welsh unit and reached the Waterloo with his regiment a few months later. For another year he was stationed at Versailles with British troops, and then served at Limerick, Ireland, where he married Elizabeth Hall in 1824. That year he entered the Colonial Office where his older brother George was clerk in the North American Department and soon after he was appointed commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general of New Brunswick and he came to Fredericton in 1824. His second marriage was in 1833 to Elizabeth Odell, daughter of William Franklin Odell. When he died in 1863, Baillie left two sons by his first marriage and three children by his second.
HEADSTONE says Hon. Thomas Baillie. Says born 1795; dictionary says 1796.

DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ONLINE http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4276&&PHPSESSID=o774ev7lrjfr2u6hekqvigft63 for Baillie, Thomas says he was a colonial administrator and office-holder. Born Oct 4 1796 at Hanwell, Middlesex, England, son of Captain William Baillie of the 51st Light Infantry and magistrate at Hanwell; died May 20 1863 during a holiday at Boulogne, France. He joined the army in April 1815 as a lieutenant in a Welsh unit and reached the Waterloo with his regiment a few months later. For another year he was stationed at Versailles with British troops, and then served at Limerick, Ireland, where he married Elizabeth Hall in 1824. That year he entered the Colonial Office where his older brother George was clerk in the North American Department and soon after he was appointed commissioner of crown lands and surveyor general of New Brunswick and he came to Fredericton in 1824. His second marriage was in 1833 to Elizabeth Odell, daughter of William Franklin Odell. When he died in 1863, Baillie left two sons by his first marriage and three children by his second.

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