James Bruce Gill

Biographical Summary

James Bruce, Esq. of Runnymede, Casterton, co. Normanby, Victoria, and Greenvale, Dalrymple, North Kennedy District, Queensland, Australia; b. 15th March, 1849, at Aberdeen, Scotland, went to Queensland in 1867 ; m. 15th July, 1885, at Christ Church, Warrnambool, Victoria, Ruth, eldest daughter of Lieut. -Gen. James Farrell Pennycuick, R.A., C.B., of 22, Linden-road, Bedford, England, and of the Junior United Service Club, London ; formerly Laird of Soilzarie and Logic, co. Perth, Scotland, reputed head of the ancient family of Pennycuick, of that ilk, co. Edinburgh, by Jane Martha, his wife, eldest daughter of William Rutledge, Esq. of Farnham Park, Warrnambool, cos. Villiers and Heytesbury, Victoria, J. P., member of the Legislative Assembly, and one of the earliest and best known of the pioneers of the Colony of Victoria.

SOURCE: Burke, Bernard, Sir, 1814-1892. cn; Burke, Ashworth Peter, 1864-1919. A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry, Vol. I; London, Harrison; 1891; page 37-38