This message is the same as below but I thot that this might get noticed more. I am very interested in replies, please.
I believe that Ireland is the key to the Twibells/Twibills/Twibles
My grandmother was Twible and I grew up quite close to that family and the wider family, which is not so big in Ireland or anywhere else for that matter. I have a cousin of my mothers who has being doing research on the family, and we together have got the Irish twibles fairly well sorted out.
As to the family. The research has to be wide to take in a name which changes spelling so frequently. Here are some
Name varients
TWIBILL/TWIBELLE/TWIBIL/TWIBALL/TWIBELL/TWIBEL/TWIBAL/TWYBILL/TWYBIL/TWYBEL/TWIBLE/TWYBLE/TWYBELL/TWIBILE/TWIBLETWYBEL/
TWYBEL/TWYBELLE
Indeed here the family name change from Twible in the 19teens to Twyble by the 1930's. And one branch of the family which moved to Belfast in the 1800's are now Twibell. The story goes is that my great Uncle Billy Twible who moved to Australia after the WWI because he had been gassed, started to send back letters signed Twyble, and the folk here like it and changed their spelling!!. This seems to have included his father, born Twible and died Twyble in 1939.
One thing about the family is its capacity to produce a large family from juat a few individuals. Although the Irish family name now resides in just 2 brothers, one not married in his late 50's and his brother who has only a daughter. The only remaining Twybles are some grandchildren of my great uncle Billy in NSW.
The William Twible connection in Australia which you may be aware of, is important to us because it may give evidence to the common connection between the families. Yes there is one family in Yorkshire England and I have an address for someone interested in the family, but this family is all accounted for as being of the one origin. There is old records of a Twibill in the 1500's in Yorkshire so this may be a vague clue. But I do believe hat the name is based in the Yorkshire Nottinghamshire area and of Norman origin. And no doubt William sailled from an English port, Sheerness 1821on the Kent coast, on the Minerva as a crewman on a convict ship in . Question is have the names separate origins and merely convergant spellings. Or vice versa.
The main source of emmigration seems however to be from Ireland. Three family sources. One Twibills, centred in Dundalk, north of Dublin, which we have not really established a link with, there may not be any directly, there is still some of them left, but they do not seem to have much effect on emmigrants.
However the other family in situated in Monaghan, in the Castleblayney, Clontibret area(probably derived from the Dundalk family only 20 miles away) .This family seems to have died out in the 20th century, so it is so important to find living relatives who can directly trace to County Monaghan. My own Twible family lived most of the 19th Century in County Armagh, only about 30 miles from the other Monaghan Twibles. I have not yet proved any link with them other than anecdotally, there is no one to ask!. But I think further research will prove a link. The oldest references so far, in the 1700's seem to connect to this family. A John Twible emmigrated to Maryland from Monaghan in 1760, and eventually founded the Indiana Twibells (Spelling change) who still are a large family.
http://www.gencircles.com/globaltree/gosearch?f=john&l=T...However, most of the links do go back to Monaghan but I can trace a progression to County Armagh, with as yet no proven links, I am actively working on this as I am 100% certain that they are linked as there are no other Twibles in Ireland and I have them nearly acounted for in the last 150 years. I am convinced in the link to the Monaghan Family, the references so far indicate Twibles there, whereas my oldest reference to County Armagh is Joseph who was born before 1800 but not in Armagh, so I belive I might be able to he was a member of the Monaghan connection.
There are is a fair amount of Twible (still the 'i') in the eastern US, these mostly desend from my great grandfathers 3 brothers and also 2 sisters who emmigrated at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, establishing themselves in New England. (Some of the remaining Monaghan family also emmigrated to the New York area. so this slightly confuses the picture.( My wife and myself contacted them when we visited them over New Year as we were on Holiday in New England and New Jersey, we called with some members of the family whom we have been out of contact with for 40 years.
The Canadian connection, about 20 in the Ontario phone books, again do have an Irish and Monaghan origin.
and this I have tracked.
My mothers side of the family, the info so far runs out by 1800, so this seem to be the period at the end of the 1700's when folk were moving. So this is why it is important to find the common origin, espicially when the English Twible also arose from an individual..
I am working diligently here on the bigger picture.