GENERATION 13

GENERATION 12

RICHARD GILBERT
born:about-1550                        
marr:06-25-1575Yardley, ENG
buri:04-08-1626Yardley, ENG
father: 
mother: 
 
MARGERY MORKEN
born:                                          
marr:06-25-1575Yardley, ENG
died:    
father: 
mother: 



Biography

RICHARD GILBERT and MARGERY MORKEN were living in Yardley parish, Worcester County, England, when their children were born between 1576 and 1589. Yardley is about eight miles NW of Birmingham, England. Their son, THOMAS, married ELIZABETH BENNETT in Yardley, and the records of the baptisms of all of their children (except Sarah) are there between 1612 and 1629.

Later, in the Connecticut Colony, their grandson, JONATHAN owned a farm between the present city of Meriden, New Haven, CT, and the old Kensington parish of Berlin, Hartford, CT. He named this farm Meriden and the name also appears in his will of 1682. There is a parish named Meriden about 12 miles ESE of Birmingham; therefore, Yardley and Meriden are about 20 miles apart. One might hyphothesize that the Connecticut farm was affectionately named after the English parish. Perhaps, Thomas and family moved from Yardley to a farm in Meriden in the early 1630s. Then something happened to cause them to uproot and move to America in about 1638, when JONATHAN was about 21. For JONATHAN to have such an attachment to the name Meriden, the family must have lived there satisfactorily during his late teen years.
 


Children

  born marr died
all children born in Yardley, Worcsetershire, England
Elizabeth
  husband Thomas Marshe
04-08-1576     
                 
                 
04-16-1605
                 
 
Parnell 06-15-1578         
Margaret
  husband John Merston
10-07-1580     
 
 
11-02-1603
 
 
Richard 01-01-1585/86   01-18-1585/86
THOMAS GILBERT
  wife ELIZABETH BENNETT
04-25-1589     
 
 
08-29-1610
09-05-1659     
01-    -1654/55


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