Desire Pierre Gillot (later known as Desra or John D. Gillotte, he changed the spelling to Gillott and later Gillotte in about 1920, and to John Desra by the 1930 census) was the second surviving child of seven born in the Charleroi area of Hainaut, Belgium to Desire Joseph Gillot, a coal miner, and Marie Adeline Lelangue. The family lived mostly in a commune/village called Landelies southwest of Charleroi until Marie Adeline died in 1886. They spent a short time in another mining town, Lievin, Pas-De-Calais, France, before deciding to immigrate to the United States.
At age 18, he was the first of his immediate family to leave Belgium for the United States. Arriving in New York City on 1 May 1891 from Antwerp and travelling on the Rhynland, he appears in the ship manifest with a group of five other Belgians. Four of them declared themselves carpenters or laborers. The fifth, 30 year old Henri Lamhotte, declared himself a miner from St. Medard (Province of Luxembourg. Arrondissement of Neufchâteau) and Desire Pierre did the same in spite of being from Landelies, not St. Medard. It is unknown how Desire Pierre established himself in the coal mining region of southwest Ohio, passing up other industrial and mining cities with larger Belgian immigrant populations like Charleroi, Pennsylvania or Salem, West Virginia. The rest of the family followed in small groups later in the same year and the following year.
In Ohio, he worked as a coal miner. He married Katie Anderson in 1893 and they had seven children, Zoa, Clyde, Christi Ann (who died in infancy), Malvema, Grace, John G., and Ulysses. He died 17 Nov 1950.
At age 18, he was the first of his immediate family to leave Belgium for the United States. Arriving in New York City on 1 May 1891 from Antwerp and travelling on the Rhynland, he appears in the ship manifest with a group of five other Belgians. Four of them declared themselves carpenters or laborers. The fifth, 30 year old Henri Lamhotte, declared himself a miner from St. Medard (Province of Luxembourg. Arrondissement of Neufchâteau) and Desire Pierre did the same in spite of being from Landelies, not St. Medard. It is unknown how Desire Pierre established himself in the coal mining region of southwest Ohio, passing up other industrial and mining cities with larger Belgian immigrant populations like Charleroi, Pennsylvania or Salem, West Virginia. The rest of the family followed in small groups later in the same year and the following year.
In Ohio, he worked as a coal miner. He married Katie Anderson in 1893 and they had seven children, Zoa, Clyde, Christi Ann (who died in infancy), Malvema, Grace, John G., and Ulysses. He died 17 Nov 1950.
Desire Pierre Gillot (later known as Desra or John D. Gillotte, he changed the spelling to Gillott and later Gillotte in about 1920, and to John Desra by the 1930 census) was the second surviving child of seven born in the Charleroi area of Hainaut, Belgium to Desire Joseph Gillot, a coal miner, and Marie Adeline Lelangue. The family lived mostly in a commune/village called Landelies southwest of Charleroi until Marie Adeline died in 1886. They spent a short time in another mining town, Lievin, Pas-De-Calais, France, before deciding to immigrate to the United States.
At age 18, he was the first of his immediate family to leave Belgium for the United States. Arriving in New York City on 1 May 1891 from Antwerp and travelling on the Rhynland, he appears in the ship manifest with a group of five other Belgians. Four of them declared themselves carpenters or laborers. The fifth, 30 year old Henri Lamhotte, declared himself a miner from St. Medard (Province of Luxembourg. Arrondissement of Neufchâteau) and Desire Pierre did the same in spite of being from Landelies, not St. Medard. It is unknown how Desire Pierre established himself in the coal mining region of southwest Ohio, passing up other industrial and mining cities with larger Belgian immigrant populations like Charleroi, Pennsylvania or Salem, West Virginia. The rest of the family followed in small groups later in the same year and the following year.
In Ohio, he worked as a coal miner. He married Katie Anderson in 1893 and they had seven children, Zoa, Clyde, Christi Ann (who died in infancy), Malvema, Grace, John G., and Ulysses. He died 17 Nov 1950.
At age 18, he was the first of his immediate family to leave Belgium for the United States. Arriving in New York City on 1 May 1891 from Antwerp and travelling on the Rhynland, he appears in the ship manifest with a group of five other Belgians. Four of them declared themselves carpenters or laborers. The fifth, 30 year old Henri Lamhotte, declared himself a miner from St. Medard (Province of Luxembourg. Arrondissement of Neufchâteau) and Desire Pierre did the same in spite of being from Landelies, not St. Medard. It is unknown how Desire Pierre established himself in the coal mining region of southwest Ohio, passing up other industrial and mining cities with larger Belgian immigrant populations like Charleroi, Pennsylvania or Salem, West Virginia. The rest of the family followed in small groups later in the same year and the following year.
In Ohio, he worked as a coal miner. He married Katie Anderson in 1893 and they had seven children, Zoa, Clyde, Christi Ann (who died in infancy), Malvema, Grace, John G., and Ulysses. He died 17 Nov 1950.
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