Gilbert
Family Genealogy
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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 (10851189), 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. |
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. |