Actually, I am Canadian, but my parents are both British. (Hope we Canadians aren't as unpopular as the French right now?) I wonder if old Thurston Howell was a GIMBERT too? Ha! My William T GIMBERT was a soldier, but had to demonstrate most of his stoicity at home - he lost 7 of his 11 children and his first wife to illness & disease. Can you imagine?
You might have gathered too, from reading my other posts, that GIMBERT is likely a Huguenot family, although records go back in Cambridgeshire and Staffordshire (UK) to the 17th century.
If you have any more queries please feel welcome to contact me off-list at
jilliocity@hotmail.com. I'd be interested in exchanging family trees!