Gilbert Family Genealogy


Gilbert
   The surname of 'Gilbert' is English (of Norman origin), French, and North German: from Giselbert, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements gisil (‘pledge’, ‘hostage’, ‘noble youth’) + berht (‘bright’, ‘famous’). This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages, partly as a result of the fame of St. Gilbert of Sempringham (1085–1189), the founder of the only native English monastic order. The family Coat of Arms is silver with a red chevron on which there are three silver roses. The Crest features a red squirrel cracking a nut. The Family Motto, "Teg yw heddwch," means "Peace is pleasing."
   The surname was first found in Devonshire, where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
   The Gilbert family in our lineage apparently sailed to America during the great Puritan Migration in 1636. During this time their daughter, PRUDENCE GILBERT (1616 - 24 Jan 1660), met a man named MILES MORGAN of Springfield, Massachusetts, as detailed here:

   "Mr. Titus Morgan, the first historian of the Miles Morgan family, and to whom the family's indebtedness will never be cancelled, preserves the story that Miles Morgan (Captain Miles Morgan, as he soon began to be called), on his trip to America, had been attracted by a young English girl, Prudence Gilbert, perhaps a descendant of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, with whom the first Miles Morgan had sailed and perished, who had accompanied her parents to the New World on the same ship with himself (her parents ultimately settling in Beverly, now a suburb of Boston), and that, no sooner had he received his allotment of land, he started back on foot with an Indian guide, and met and married her, bringing her back also on foot, with a horse purchased in Beverly, and the Indian, both the horse and the Indian being loaded with Mrs. Morgan's household goods, and going before, while Captain Miles followed, with his match-lock, and with Mrs. Morgan at his side.
   The only variation on this story is that young Miles, wandering about the wharves of Bristol, fell in love with Miss Prudence Gilbert as she was embarking, and determined to follow her to to America, a project so hastily taken as to preclude the sending of any word to his parents before he himself embarked." -- The Family of Morgan, from the year 1089, with postscript carrying the Tredegar Morgan line backward to A.D. 605, compiled by Appleton Morgan. The Shakespeare Press of Westfield, New Jersey
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GENEALOGY

PRUDENCE GILBERT (1616 - 1660), who married MILES MORGAN (1616 - 1699) and begat..

BURT JONATHAN MORGAN (1646 - 1714), who married SARAH COOLEY (1653 - 1743) and begat...

REBECCA MORGAN (1695 - 1775) married WILLIAM SANDERSON (b. 10 APR 1706) and begat...

ROBERT SANDERSON (b. 13 Jul 1734), who married RHODA STEELE and begat...

ELNATHAN SANDERSON (1776 - 1854) married BETSY WALTERS and begat...

DAVID SANDERSON (1804 - 1884) who married POLLY BRIGGS (1811 - 1867) and begat...

MELISSA SANDERSON (1839 - 1921) who married LABAN HAUSE (1831 - 1906) and begat...

FRANK HAUSE (1867 - 1951) who married FLADELLA RAYMOND (1869 - 1961) and begat...

CARLISLE HAUSE (1891 - 1972) who married MARJORIE MARCHANT (1892 - 1939) who begat...

CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, SR. (1917 - 1983) who married JEANNE BRUNNER (1918 - 2000) and begat...

CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (b. 1939) who married MARTHA WENK (b. 1940) and begat...

JEFF (who married LORI ANN DOTSON), KATHY (who married HAL LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE (who married JOHN SCOTT HOUSTON).


Literature on the Gilbert Family:

  • "The Gilbert Family: Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582-1659 of Mt. Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield." Published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953 with a forward being written by Donald Lines Jacobus, prominent genealogical researcher for New England families.
  • The Prominent Families of The United States" (Biloxi, Miss. Library) p 85, gives the year of marriage of Miles and Prudence as 1636.