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Charles Gullion and Margaret Sullivan

Charles Fraser Gullion, only son of William Gullion and Isabella Drever, was baptised on 13th July 1827 in the parish of Eday and Pharay. It was probably this Charles Gullion who married Barbara Peace at Eday on 7th December 1848; if so Barbara probably died soon after. Charles arrived in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, aboard the "Norman Morrison" from London on 24th March 1850. Charles married Margaret Sullivan (born in Ireland, on 16th March 1838, to John and Ellen Sullivan) on 2nd April 1860 at the Victoria Wesleyan Methodist Church. They had three children and adopted a fourth:

• Mary Gullion b. 28 Jan 1853 who married John Hunter.

• William Gullion b. 1856, B.C. and died 28th Mar 1882. He was a blacksmith in Nanaimo, B.C. He married a widow, Pora Sullivan, m.s.Waklem, on 4th Jan 1879.

• Isabella Gullion, b.14th Feb 1858 and d. 7th Sep 1932. She married William Frederick Taylor and later John Bennett.

• Charles Stockan, b. 1867 to James Stockan and Isabella Begg and adopted by Charles and Margaret. Charles Stockan died in a mine accident on 20th Jan 1887.

Charles was an immigrant sponsored by the Hudson's Bay Company. He worked for them in B.C. until he quit on 1st July 1852. He returned in December 1852 and was sent to work on a farm near Fort Nisqually (near what is now Tacoma in Washington State). The farm manager sent him back to the fort in March 1853 saying he was "worthless and lazy." He worked the next five months at the fort where records indicate he was an able, competent worker. He completed his contract in Victoria, and from the late 1850s he worked off and on for HBC. In the 1860s he was at Fort Simpson (on the Pacific coast, probably the place now known as Port Simpson) and by 1871 he was in Nanaimo where he lived the rest of his life. In Nanaimo he worked generally as a coal miner, the major industry in the town. In 1882, he worked for the Chase River Coal Mine. In 1891, he was a road labourer, but according to the1892 Nanaimo directory he was a miner for the New Vancouver Coal and Land Co. which had acquired the HBC Nanaimo operation in 1862. Charles died in Nanaimo on 12th April 1911. Margaret died seven months later on 18th November, in Vancouver.