Gilbourne in the U.S.A.

including Gillborn, Gilborn, Gilborne, Gilbourn, Gilburn etc

The majority of these families immigrated to the U.S.A in the 19th and early 20th century, particularly from Ireland, and as such could be expected ultimately to belong to other trees. However not all came from Ireland:

Henry J. GILBORNE was born in New York about 1805. It is not known who his parents are, when they came to the U.S.A., or where they came from. Henry was in Gadsden, Florida by 1840, and was probably there before 1825 when he married Georgia-born Mary Buie on 15 December. His grandson, Henry Jefferson (Jeff) Gilbourn, moved from Florida to Decatur Co., Georgia, where his descendants still live. It is probable that Henry J Gilborne's parents came from Ireland, though this cannot yet be proved.
Minnie Gilbourne, born in England, and her Australia-born daughter Lydia, sailed on the S.S. Sonoma from Victoria to San Francisco, arriving on 14 June 1907. Lydia married George Seidlin in 1912 and had a son and daughter before George died in 1921. Lydia then remarried to William Podesta. Her mother continued to live with her. Minnie and Lydia are shown in Tree 5.
Allen Gilborne emigrated from Jamaica to the U.S.A. and would also be expected to belong to Tree 5, but his exact link is not known. His wife and mother later followed him to the U.S.A.
Lars Gilborn came from Norway. This family may be linked to the GILBORNEs found today in Sweden, but as yet they have not been researched in detail. Family stories however indicate the name came from the U.K., claiming a Scottish origin. However, the only GILBORNE yet found in Scotland had died before the name originated in Sweden.

Among those coming from Ireland to the U.S.A., only two groups have been linked to other trees back in Ireland.

James Gilburn entered the U.S. in 1888 and settled in New Jersey. He had been born in Co. Limerick, the son of Thomas Gilburn and Catherine Clifford. James married Hannah Cuningham, born in New York to Irish-born parents, and settled in Hoboken N.J. Thomas and Catherine have not been linked to one of the major trees, and are included in the twigs of 'Tree 0'. Being from Limerick, it is likely that they will link to tree 9 at some stage. Two of James' sisters, Ellen and Johanna also emigrated to the U.S.A. Ellen married John P CRONIN in Manhattan 16 September 1903 and Johannah is believed to be the Hannah GILBORNE of Ballallinen who entered the U.S. in 1900 and married John Dohery in 1918, but this is to be confirmed. Finally, Thomas (jr) entered the US with his parents in 1910. Thomas snr was recorded as senile. Thomas jr married Mary Ann CRONIN and raised three daughters and a son.
Michael Patrick (sometimes Michael D.) Gilbourne settled in Utah after leaving Ireland about 1893. The son of Patrick Gilbourne and Ellen Callaghan, he was born in Feenagh, Ireland, in 1867, and is included in tree 9.

Others coming from Ireland but who can not yet be attached to any larger tree include:

Thomas GILBURNS was born in Ireland in June 1867. He entered the U.S. in 1885. He had settled in New Jersey by 1900, with wife Nora. She too was Irish, but it is not known whether the marriage took place in Ireland or the U.S.A. As Nora entered the U.S. in 1888 at the age of 17, it is probable that the marriage took place there. One child had died by 1900, but they raised a further nine in New Jersey.
Henry Gilborne came from Ireland in the first half of the 19th century and settled first in Chautauqua County, New York, where he married Elizabeth McFee. All their eight known children were born in New York, but later Henry moved his family to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where they remained for many years. Patricia Foster Heinen in her book "The Kerr Families of Early Oil Creek Township, Crawford County, Pa." states (on p.183) that Henry originally came from Queens Co. (Laois) in Ireland, and hence would be expected to link to Tree 6.
Five children of an unknown Irish father all emigrated to New York State. Most later moved further west.
- Benjamin W. Gilborne was born in Ireland 1 November 1825. He arrived in Montgomery Co., N.Y. in 1840, and had moved to Scoharie Co. by 1850. After serving in the heavy artilley in the civil war, he moved to Ford County Illinois. Initially a teacher, he became Town Clerk, Assessor, J.P., Commissioner of Highways and Town Supervisor in Milk's Grove, IL.
- James W. Gilbourne was born in Ireland in 1829. He followed his brother to upstate New York in 1946. Unlike his older brother, he remained in Root County. He was with William and Eliza GILBORN in 1850 - another brother? James married widow Pollyanna (Polly) Warner ca 1860. Their only daughter, Libbie, married Herman Platner in 1885, but she died ca 1898, before both her parents. James died in Canajoharie 1 Jan 1907, and was buried in Ames Cemetery, Montgomery Co. His estate was left to his step granddaughter, Tressie May Warner.
- Davis Gilborne was born in 1836 and emigrated to the U.S. about 1852. Living In Sharon County, N.Y., in 1860, after fighting in the Civil War as a corporal in the N.Y. Infantry, he too moved to Ford County, IL. He moved to Aberdeen, Brown Co., South Dakota, some time between 1880 and 1900. He married Lydia Boulby in 1867 and raised three children. He died in Wetonka, S.D. in 1920
- Henry Gilborne was born in 1840 and left Ireland in 1854. He was a farm labourer in Sharon Co., N.Y. in 1860. It is not clear when he moved to Illinois, but H.Gilborne of Cabery graduated in; homeopathy from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, March 9, 1872 . He returned to Cabery, where he was a physician in 1880. He remained in Ford County all his life, moving from Cabery to Rogers to Compton. He married Julia M. Loucks (date unknown) and raised a son and daughter. He died in 1927
- Mary A.Gilborne is known to have been born a Gilborne from the obituary of Mary A. Terwilliger which states 'She also leaves two brothers, Davis Gilborne of Aberdeen South Dakota, and Dr. Henry Gilborne of Kankakee, Ill. About two weeks ago another brother, James W. Gilborne of Ames, N.Y., died. The same obituary gives her date of birth as about 1840, but in Troy, N.Y. If this is true, then obviously, the parents must have come to Ireland too. This seems unlikely, as if her parents had come to New York about 1840, they would have been expected to bring sons Davis and Henry with them too, and they did not arrive until later.
The Find A Grave web site records a memorial for Susan Gilborn SALE and her husband Edward in Ames Cemetery, Montgomery, N.Y. She is found in censuses as Susan SAYLES, wife of Edward and mother of Edward junior, born in Ireland in August 1819. Is Susan another sibling of those in the previous item?
A later immigrant was Robert A. Gilbourne who entered the U.S. in 1875. He married Canada-born Sarah McLean about 1880, probably in Chicago, where he was living at the time, before moving to Brooklyn. This family has not been found in censuses after 1905, though daughter Ethel was believed to be still in N.Y. in 1918.
Robert Gilburn entered the U.S. in 1881. He married Johannah (Annie) Callaghan of Connecticut before settling in Manhattan, N.Y. The family has not been found in the U.S. after 1910
A third Robert , the son of James GILBORNE and Mary CONDON, came from Limerick (and hence would probably link to Tree 9) in 1885. He married Mary Bowen in Cook County, Illinois, before settling in Buchanan, Missouri. A second GILBOURNE, William, is found in the Buchanan censuses and is believed to be Robert's brother. William was unmarried and was stated to be the brother-in-law of Robert and Mary A. MANEY. This leads us to the conclusion that Mary A is also a daughter of James and Mary, but this still has to be confirmed.

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