I am looking for anyone that knows about Daniel Gumb. He was a stonecutter in Wales. Also, who was first Gumb to come to America. We are orginally from Massachusetts. My grandfather was Reinfred R. Gumb. He had two brothers, Wallace and Irving and a sister Laura. We know the family was some how related to Daniel but cannot seem to complete the connection.
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Re: Daniel Gumb
My grandmother was a Gumb. Her parents came from England in 1885, settling first in Pennslvania, then moved on to Nebraska in 1890. Daniel Gumb was her GGG-grandfather.
Daniel Gumb had 3 wives and had children with at least two of them. Some of the Gumbs came to America and some went to Australia in the 1800's. I haven't run accross the names you mentioned (Reinfred R. Gumb, Wallace, Irving or Laura). Perhaps if you knew their parents' names? Below is some information I have found regarding Daniel Gumb.
Daniel Gumb grew up in a moorland cottage, but from boyhood revealed a character that might have made him a great man if time and forture had lent him better opportunity. His family said he always was one for his book, when he could have been at play. He read every book he could lay his hands on, learned the rudiments of algebra and Euclid and soon had no more to learn from the Schoolmaster. He was a wanderer on the moors where, with a book to read and a crust to eat, he chipped the rocks for specimens, but his passion was the knowledge of the stars. Some help was given to him by William Cookworthy of Plymouth, who let him browse among astronomical books and taught him the use of astronomical instruments, but the hard need of earning his living drove him from his learning back to stone hewing. It was his trade and he made a singular use of it when he thought of marrying and needed a home. He built one of stone on the long slope of Carradon. He searched cromlech and pillared stone till he found a group of granite slabs such as he wanted. One of these grounded on several others, was like a roof. He scooped the soil from underneath, finding other slices of moorstone, which he placed on end to make an inner wall and at last stood before a stone house with inner chambers made by his own hands. It was the dwelling of a man of the very latest stone age and to it he brought his bride and closed their house with a stone door sliding in a groove. Here they dwelt with stone tables and seats and a bed of cornish stone. The Stone Man paid neither tax nor tithe and himself baptized his children at the ancient altars scattered about his house. He was proud as well as content for he never forgot his early learning or his love for the stars. He engraved geometrical diagrams on rocks, kept a diary and wrote down in it his thoughts. Some fragments have been preserved by his descendants to testify to the thought and character of this remarkable man, who died in 1776.
- [Cornwall Kings England - Plymouth Library, Plymouth, England]
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I am the Grandson of Irving T. Gumb and the son of Dana Gumb. I have a number of materials about Daniel Gumb which were collected by my grandfather. If you are interested please email me and I can send xerox copies to you.
Thank You!
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You have Daniel in Wales,he is originally from Cornwall England. I am connected through one of daniel's children. Maureen
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Hi Reina, I have been trying to contact you! I am the grandson of Wallace Gumb and saw your message. Bob
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I live in Cornwall not far from the site of Daniel Gumbs 'Cave' house. I have copies of two 18th century writings relating to my families home and the Gumb family. With out digging them out, from memory the first is a 19th century writing that quotes the diary / account book of the man who owned the house in the 18th century. It states a sum of money paid to Daniel Gumb for setting up a sundial in 1761. We still have this very fine granite sundial although the actual dial was stolen several years ago. The second is an 18th century bill for new granite mill stones. It is signed by a distinct ink mark composed of three one central vertical line drawn through three horizontal lines. Below this is written. 'the mark of I, John Wevill Gumb.' I believe the millstones still exist although the mill was sold recently to a developer and much of the granite sold. I am fascinated by the Gumb family and would love to know more.
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I would like to know or see a Gumb Family tree.
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I am decended from Elizabeth GUMB and her husband Henry RUNDLE who married 24 August, 1797 Stoke Climsland. Their daughter Jane RUNDLE, born 1805 married William Hodges NICHOLLS August 1824.. Their daughter Elizabeth Gumm NICHOLLS b1838 married Thomas COPE 1857 in Truro - and emigrated to Australia .
We would like to know more about the GUMB line. Hoping to hear from anybody researching this family Best wishes OysterFisher in Melbourne
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I have some information on Daniel Gumb and his descendants.
I am interested in his descendants and would appreciate contact with any of them
I have information on Reinfred Gumb, but the link to Daniel is at best tenuous, Daniel was a stonecutter in Cornwall, not Wales. All his children were baptised in Linkinhorne Church. He was also employed as a Grave stone maker and as a land surveyor/map maker on occasion.
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Hi, I am interested in the history of the descendants of Daniel Gumb and have collected some material about him. I would be delighted to see the materiel you have Kind regards George Bishop ( georgebishop@orange.fr)
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