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 some of his descendants still live. It is probable that Henry J Gilborne's parents came from Ireland, though this cannot yet be proved.
- Minnie (Jordan) Gilbourne, English widow of William Daniel Gibourne, 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 also belongs to Tree 5. his father was the first cousin of the above William Daniel Gilbourne. His wife and mother later followed him to the U.S.A.
Three families adopted the name Gilborn, or in one case Gilburne, when they came to the United States:
- Lars Gilborn and his brothers Nels and Ole came from Norway. Norway uses the patronymic system of naming, and their 'surname' was Amundson (Their father's forename was Amund.) Their farm was named Gilbaarene, and from it they took the name Gilborn. More detail of the family can be found here.
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 in Sweden 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 and he had no known children. - The surname Gilborn was also adopted by a Goldbaum family in 1944. With the majority of the family still living, the tree is not published here. The late actor Steve Gilborn belongs to this family.
- The third family was originally named Ginsburg, but changed to Gilburne between the World Wars. Again the majority of this family are still living and their tree has not been published here.
- James Gilburn married Margaret Foley 25 November 1835 in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. Two of their three known children emigrated to the United States. (What became of the third, eldest, child, Ellen, is unknown.)
- 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 Cunningham, 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 Ballyallinen who entered the U.S. in 1900 and married John Doherty 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.
- Mary Gilburns married Jeremiah Riordan in Rathkeale 20 February 1873. They entered the U.S.A. in May the same year. They raised six children in Manhattan.
- 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.
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Charlotte Gilburn emigrated to the United States in 1847. She appears in Tree 6, the daughter of Harmon Potter and Rebecca (Massey) Gilbourne and had been baptised 21 June 1818 in Offerlane, Co. Laois. She left Ireland and on the ship met Phillip Bluhm who had joined the same ship in Germany, though had been born in Russia. Romance blossomed on the voyage and the couple married about 1849. They raised four children in Iowa (though the eldest was born in Pennsylvania.)
Charlotte's nephew, Robert Alexander Gilbourne entered the U.S. in 1875. He had been borne in Boyle, Co. Roscommon about 1852, the son of Eyre Gilbourne and the former Jane Henderson. He had been baptised as Alexander Robert Gilbourne in the parish church at Boyle.He married Canada-born Sarah McLean about 1880, probably in Chicago, where he was living at the time. A son, Hamon A., was born in Chicago, but died in infancy. Two daughters were born there before the family moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., some time between 1885 and 1892. This family has not been found in the censuses of 1910 and 1920, but were still in Brooklyn in 1915 and 1930. Several newspaper articles imply the family were in Brooklyn in the intervening years.
[Two of Robert's sisters also emigrated from Ireland, but to Australia.]
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 and had entered the U.S. in 1888 at the age of 17. The marriage took place in Manhattan 5 October 1895. One child had died by 1900, but they raised a further nine in New Jersey.
- Seven children of an as yet unidentified James Gilborne all migrated to the U.S.A from Ireland.
- Fannie Gilborne was born 4 June 1819 and entered the U.S.A. in 1845. She did not marry and in later life lived with her nephew Charles Rogers. She died in Brooklyn in 1912.
- 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.
- Anna Gilborne is known only from a newspaper advert seeking news of her siblings. Her name was given there as Anna Russell, but her marriage has not been traced and she has not been identified in any census.
- Jane Gilborne was born in Ireland about 1824. Her date of immigration is unknown, and her marriage to Emanuel Rogers is unknown. The 1860 census gives his birthplace as West indies, but in 1850 it had been recorded as Portugal. A seaman, it is not known what became of him after 1870. Jane Rogers died in Brooklyn in 1871, having given birth to six children.
- Maria Gilborne was born about 1831 in Ireland. She maried James Edgar Wilson about 1850. She gave birth to two children. The first died in infancy. Maria died shortly after the birth of her second child, Frances, in 1852 at Raritan, Monmouth, N.J.
- Five children of William Gilbourne and Hannah Harris 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 artillery 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 N.Y., in Root County. He was with William and Eliza GILBORN in 1850 - his father? 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.
- William Gilbourne and his wife Margaret are found in the censuses in Rock Run, Stephenson, IL, between 1850 and 1870. Initially a farmer, William was later described as physician. Is this the same William Gilbourne who was in Albany, N.Y. in 1840? Are these the parents of the five siblings in the previous section? In favour of this is that one of the five, Henry, was also a doctor. Against this is the fact that William and Margaret are buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Irish Grove, Stephenson County, whereas the five siblings are believed to be protestant.
- Robert Gilburn entered the U.S. in 1881. He married Johannah (Annie) Norton of Connecticut before settling in Manhattan, N.Y.
- 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.
- Thomas Gilburn, born in Ireland about 1835, was with his wife, the former Margaret Carry (or Carrey), and daughter Mary in Chicago in 1880. Both parents had died by 1883, and when Mary married Raymond Lynch 18 April 1907, the Gilburn name died out in this branch of the tree.
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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. His father's name was known to be James.
- Martha Gilborne was born in 1830 and entered the U.S.A. in 1835. Her marriage to James Ripple has not been traced, but they made their home in Cherry Valley, Otsego, N.Y. They had no children of their own, but raised Martha's niece, Charlotte Rogers. Marhta died in Cherry Valley in 1915.
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