Gilbourne Update Log

Jan/Feb 2022

Added a new Topic, DNA, to the menu. This currently links to pages showing detail of results found by family fined tests. If we can get more Y-DNA results then they will also be shown here.
Added a menu item for a Virtual Graveyard showing links to Gilbourne (and variants) who have entries on Findagrave Many of these have pictures and obituaries of the individuals..
[Still in progress] Amended all entries on the index page to include the family tree number, and amended the tree numbers to unclude a letter identifying which (if any) sub tree if the link to the primary tree has not yet been identified. This has led to a reorganisation of the family tree numbers in some cases, affecting mainly families previously identified as Tree 7 (USA) trees. Where the country of origin of the head of the tree is known, that tree has been renumbered to align with others from that country. For example several USA trees were know to originate with immigrants from Queen's County (Co. Laois) in Ireland, and hence have been renumbered as 6d, 6e etc.

Added the Tree identification number to each family page.

After contact from a family member have identified that it was the same William Gilburn/Gilbourne who married Bridget Higgins in 1830 and Johannah Sullivan in 1842 (both in Mahoonagh, C. Limerick.)

April 2019

Tree 1. Identification of Frances and Isabell Gilburne, and their daughter Elizabeth, in Ellastone, Staffordshire 1668-1682. Could these be the parents of Nicholas Gilburne who was buried in Ellastone 1716, and is currently the earliest Gilburne in Tree 1?
Tree 2.? Identification of the marriage and death of William Gillborn, whose wife gave birth to Elizabeth in Chatham in 1811. His parentage is unknown, but if the spelling of his surname is correct was probably born in Nottingham and belongs in Tree 2.
Tree 3. William Gilborn who married Hannah Raskett in East Stonehouse, Devon, in 1775, is now believed to be the William who had previously married Esther Campbell in Plymouth St. Andrew 1761 (William Gilborne who sailed with the First Fleet to Australia).
Tree 6.
- A recent DNA match has confirmed that the Charlotte Gilburn who married Philip Bluhm in the United States ca 1849 was the Charlotte who had been baptised 21 June 1818 in Offerlane, Queens co., Ireland, the daughter of Harmon Potter and Rebecca Gilbourne. A large descendancy tree has been added.
- Added Family of William Gilbourne and Ann in Clonenagh. Includes his son William who married Frances Davis in Clonenagh in 1769, and must surely link to William Gilborne and Hannah Harris and their son Davis Gilborne (see next update).
- Discovery of another three children of William Gilborne and Hannah Harris, and finding baptism details for all eight children in Ballyfin, Queens Co., Ireland. (this family had previously been included in Tree 7 - U.S.A.)
- Added 1st marriage of Susanna Gilborne in Queens County 1735.
Tree 8 Added children of Thomas Goldwell and Martha Gilborn in Great Shelford, Cambs., 1600-1627.
Tree 0.Addition of Frances Gilborne who married Robert Garrett in Ballyfin, Queens Co. in 1834. Currently included in unattached names, this will certainly connect to Tree 6.
Addition of events after the marriage of Catherine Gilborns and Thomas Sullivan in London 1856.

October 2016

Major additions and rationalisation of the Irish trees based around Limerick by incorporating data from the Irish Catholic Registers published by the National Library of Ireland. Linking of some of the trees now based in the U.S.A. back to their Irish roots. Identification of another five children of James Gilborne and Mary Condon
Enhancements to the Protestant Irish Tree based in Co. Laois (formerly Queen's Co.) with information gathered from a survey of Registration Deeds. Potter Harmon Gilborne is now known to be the son of William Percival Gilborne.
Betham's trees at NLI include 'Edward Gilborne of Mt. Eagle.' No links to this townland have been found during his life, but deeds do exist for property in Peafield and Butterisland townlands. His will however refers to him as Edwrd Gilborne of Mt. Eagle. Edward's wife is now known to be Frances.
Three further siblings have been added to the four sisters born in Ireland but living in New York State in the mid 1800s. Henry Gilborne, whose tree was already known, was one of those siblings. Their father is now known to be James Gilborne who was from Co. Laois. Unfortunately, exactly which James has not been positively identified.

May 2013.

Additions to many trees, particularly those in the U.S.A and 16th/17th Century London;
Addition of a page resolving several different accounts of the lineage of Colonel Henry Gilbourne of Woolwich, died 1684;
Addition of information from the US 1940 census;
Addition of a short Gilborn tree of immigrants to the U.S.A from Norway.
Addition of a page summarising several William Gilborns in Devon from 1760 to 1790
- Addition of an extra generation to the top of the Jamaican Tree (Tree 5) and..
- linkage of Allen Fitzpatrick Gilbourne to the tree;
- Addition of Richard & Jane Gilborne and their two children, who are likely to link to this tree;
- Addition of John Gilbourn and Louisa Hornsbie who are likely to be at the head of Tree 5, and speculation on how they might link to it.

Sep 2011
Additions to all trees, particularly Ireland (Tree 6), and U.S.A. (Tree 7). Improvements to this page give better definition to the various familes in U.S.A (Tree 7) and Unattached Twigs (Tree 0).

Nov 2009 - Restructuring of site to differentiate between our Family and one name study, and to differentiate between different ONS families by varying the banner.

Sep 2009: inclusion of information from the 1911 UK and Ireland censuses; many new pages;

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