Gilbourne Trees

including Gillborn, Gilborn, Gilborne, Gilbourn etc

Last update: November 09 - Restructuring of site to differentiate between our Family and one name study, and to differentiate between different ONS families by varying the banner.

Sept 09: inclusion of information from the 1911 UK and Ireland censuses; many 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 will probably link to the following families:

Tree 1. Descendants of Robert Gilbourne and Elizabeth.
This couple baptised at least 6 children between 1768 and 1785 in Duffield Derbys. They are the start of our Gilbourne ancestors, and all Tudors, Griffins, Bevans, Reeve etc link into this tree. The family only remained in Duffield for one generation, probably coming from Staffordshire. 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 baptised in Lenton, Notts, 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. A baptism in Nottingham St. Mary church on 19 July 1755 has been transcribed by Notts F.H.S. as 'Francis, son of Ann TILMAN'. It is possible that it is GILMAN, but inspection of the register proved inconclusive. GILBORN has been recorded as GIL(L)MAN on a number of occasions. 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 before the name Gilborn was lost. Andrew was a marine, and present on the first fleet (of convicts) who sailed to Australia. His birth has not been traced. 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, but it is also possible that they originated in the Lambeth area of London. This is where William Prideaux GILBORN and his children eventually lived. Samuel GILBORN was buried in Lambeth St. Mary 2 January 1791 and Rebecca GILBORN 1 November 1792. No age is given for either. Could they have been Andrew's parents? ... or siblings?

Tree 5. Descendants of Daniel Gilbourne and Mary (Minnie) 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, and after his death Minnie and one of her daughters later emigrated to San Francisco.

Tree 6. Descendants of Edward Gilborne (wife unknown).
This family is of Irish origin. 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 Gilborne name is now extinct as a surname in this branch of the family, the last bearing the name being Edward Charles William Gilborne, who died in 1920.

It is likely that Charles Gilborne belonged to this family, but this has not yet been proved. His daughter Lousa Elizabeth married Thomas William Sixsmith in Dublin in 1860. their grandson, Eric Keir Gilborne Sixsmith was born in Cardiff in 1904 and after joining the Cameronians in 1924 rose to become Assistant Chief of Staff, (Organisation and Training), Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe 1957-1961, retiring 1961.

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 (tree 8)

Tree 7. Work in progress - Gilbournes in the U.S.A.

These families have a number of origins e.g Davis Gilborne (and siblings?) emigrated from Ireland to the U.S.A.; Allen Gilborne emigrated from Jamaica to the U.S.A., and thus are likely to fit into other trees, particularly the Ireland tree. Lydia Gilbourne, who married William Podesta in San Francisco, is already included in tree 5.

Tree 8. The tree of Sir Nicholas GILBOURNE of Charing, Kent.

This tree starts in Yorkshire, before moving to Kent and London, and later to Ireland too. It is expected that tree 6 will be linked to this tree, but the link cannot yet be proven. Thanks are due to Patrick Hughes who has provided much of the information on the Irish portion of this tree.

*** This tree is constructed largely from secondary an tertiary sources, and much is still to be verified. As such, much of it should be regarded as provisional. ***

Tree 0. Unattached twigs.

Not really a tree, this group consists of a number of people who have been discovered in the course of our research. While in some cases it is obvious which tree they are likely to belong to, the exact linkage is not known. In other cases, it is not clear where the individuals originated, and therefore to which tree they belonged. Some names may be mis-transcriptions or incorrect recordings of the true name.

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