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Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Richard A. Gimbert (View posts)
Posted: 23 Apr 2003 6:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gimbert
Ben was my Grandfather. I never knew him. My father was Charles Richard Gimbert. I did not know him well. Ben was a sea captain. That is about all I know of him. My branch of the family is from Maine, USA. Can anybody provide me any information on Ben or his liniage?

Re: Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Posted: 3 May 2003 8:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GIMBERT
I would try contacting Betty Cannon at
bcannon@hvc.rr.com

She has American Gimberts and a Prior Gimbert in her tree.

Good luck!

Jill

Re: Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Richard A. Gimbert (View posts)
Posted: 5 May 2003 2:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
Jill,

Thanks, I have been talking with Betty. She is a wealth of information. I like the term "American Gimberts," it makes me feel very colonial. :-)

Re: "American" Gimberts

Posted: 5 May 2003 2:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: gimbert
Well mine lineage never made it to "America" so I suppose you're one of my American cousins?
Personally, I like the connection to Cambridge - does that make us sound well-educated?

Re: "American" Gimberts

Richard A. Gimbert (View posts)
Posted: 5 May 2003 3:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
I think it does at that "cousin." I take it that you are over in Britian? Actually, the fact that we are from "Cambridge" brings up a lot of comical conotations in my mind. If you are familiar with an old American TV show called "Gilligan's Island"; I am given the mental image of Thurston Howell the III. All silliness aside, I would be interested in setting up a dialoge with any Gimbert. I am also thanking god that my liniage is English and not French. Whe I have looked up Gimbert in databases, the origan is always France. Being a former US Marine, you can imagine that my recent opinion of the French is not high. My direct email is rgimbe01@sprintspectrum.com. God Bless the British...

Re: "American" Gimberts

Posted: 5 May 2003 7:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GIMBERT
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!

Re: "American" Gimberts

Richard A. Gimbert (View posts)
Posted: 5 May 2003 7:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
That sounds very cool. I just don't know mine past Ben.

Re: Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Richard A. Gimbert (View posts)
Posted: 5 May 2003 8:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Jul 2005 5:04AM GMT
Surnames: Hryncewicz, Gimbert
I have just found out that Benjamin Prior Gimbert (Grandfather) married a Pauline Hryncewicz (Grandmother). If this rings a bell to any of y'all, please shoot me a line.

Re: Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Posted: 7 Oct 2009 4:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 9 Oct 2009 5:26AM GMT
Surnames: GIMBERT
If your grandfather was born in 1873 his parents could be
Prior Gimbert b.1844 and Emily b.1845 both in England.

Re: Benjamin Prior Gimbert

Posted: 9 Apr 2010 12:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
My G.G.G. Grandfather,is Thomas Gimbert, born 1847 (married to Rebecca Willis).
Maybe we have a sibling connection amongst this generation somewhere?
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