Gilbourne - Bevan - Tudor - Griffin Family Tree

Gilbourne Trees

including Gillborn, Gilborn, Gilborne, Gilbourn etc

Last update: July 2007 - over 750 new pages.

Gilbourne is a relatively uncommon name, based on the East Midlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries, but in earlier times based in Kent and Yorkshire. From Yorkshire, they also spread to Ireland. This story has developed into a one name study, rather than simply the family tree, and many of them listed in these pages do not (yet?) have proven links to our family. There are numerous individuals whose exact place on the tree is not known, however most of them would seem to fit into the following families:

Tree 1. Descendants of Robert Gilbourne and Elizabeth.
This couple registered the births of 6 children between 1768 and 1785 in Duffield Derbys. This couple is the start of our Gilbourne ancestors, and all Tudors, Griffins, Bevans etc link into this tree. The family only remained in Duffield for one generation. All of the children have not been traced, but Samuel Gilborne moved to Brinsley in Notts, and there are still some of his descendants in the same village 200 years later.

Tree 2. Descendants of Richard Gilbourne and Margaret.
This couple registered in Lenton, Notts, the births of 5 children before Richard's death in 1733. It is from this branch of the family that all the Gillborn surnames originate. It is difficult to imagine that these first two trees, both originating in Nottinghamshire are not related, but no link has yet been found.

Tree 3. Descendants of Francis Gilborn and Mary Joyce.
No birth or christening record has yet been found for Francis Gilborn, and the first record is the marriage of the couple in Nottingham in 1781. It is very likely that Francis should be linked to Tree 2, but this cannot be proved. Francis and Mary registered the births of 8 children. This is a relatively short tree. Although not all descendants have yet been traced, the Gilborn name in this branch seems to have ended in the mid 1800s.

Tree 4. Descendants of Andrew Gilborne and Margaret.
This is another short tree, just four generations, Andrew was a marine, and present on the first fleet (of convicts) who sailed to Australia. His son William Prideaux was one of the first births to be registered in New South Wales. It is possible that this tree links into the Irish families of Tree 6.

Tree 5. Descendants of Daniel Gilbourne and Mary Jordan.
The smallest tree on the site, this is the origin of a Gilbourne family that emigrated to Australia being investigated by Graham Wright, who supplied much of the descendant information included here. The couple married in Rhyl, North Wales in 1881, but all their know children were born in Australia. Daniel seems to have been born in Jamaica, Mary and one of her daughters later emigrated to San Francisco.

Tree 6. Descendants of Edward Gilborne (wife unknown).
This family is of Irish origin, but appears here because many of the male members of the family enlisted in the British army, and while stationed in the the U.K. they appear in censuses and Birth, Marriage and Death records. Much of the detail of their lives has been garnered from newspapers, particularly The (London) Times. The Gilbourne name in Ireland is being researched by Patrick Hughes, who believes that they can be traced back to Sir Nicholas Gilbourne and his family in Charing, Kent in the 1600s.

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