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THE GIBBS SURNAME DNA PROJECT
Y-Line 9: Giles Gibbs - b. Bet. 1596 - 1597 in (possibly) Co. Dorset, England; d. 1641 in Palisado, Windsor, CT

As Submitted By: James Hemenway Gibbs

This page was updated on: 1/20/05

Parents
Father: probably the great-grandson of Anthonie Gibbs of Netherbury, Co. Dorset, possibly via Anthonie's son
John Gibbs and Johns's son John Gibbs (see Additional Notes... below).
Mother: Not stated

Marriages
Married 1st: HELEN CARY on July 29, 1617 in Alford, Co. Somerset, England
She was born 1604, and died Bet. 1623
Married 2nd: KATHERINE CARWYTHAM on April 13, 1629 in St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter, Co. Devon, England
She was born in 1604 in Topsham or Exeter, Co. Devon, England, and died October 24, 1660 in Palisado,
Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Her parents were ROGER CARWYTHAM and ELIZABETH WESTCOTT.

Notes

Generation No. 1

He married (1) HELEN CARY July 29, 1617 in Alford, Co. Somerset, England. She was born in 1604, and died Bet. 1623 - 1628
in Crewkerne or Exeter?, England. He married (2) KATHERINE CARWYTHAM April 13, 1629 in St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter,
Co. Devon, England, daughter of ROGER CARWYTHAM and ELIZABETH WESTCOTT. She was born in 1604, in Topsham or
Exeter, Co. Devon, England, and died October 24, 1660 in Palisado, Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

Generation No. 2
Children of GILES¹ GIBBS and HELEN CARY are:
i. MARY² GIBBS, b. November 05, 1618, Crewkerne, Co. Somerset, England; d. 1619 Crewkerne or Exeter?, England.
ii. MARGARET² GIBBS, b. October 01, 1620, Crewkerne, Co. Somerset, England; d. December 15, 1620 Crewkerne,
Co. Somerset, England.
iii. ELIZABETH² GIBBS, b. January 16, 1620/21, Crewkerne, Co. Somerset, England; d. Bef. 1632, Crewkerne or Exeter?,
England.
iv. GREGORY² GIBBS, b. February 16, 1623/24, Crewkerne, Co. Somerset, England; d. March 15, 1706/07, Suffield,
Hartford, or Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Married JOYCE SMITH, Springfield, MA, or Windsor, Hartford Co., CT;
b. Abt. 1625, England; d. in CT or MA.
Children of GILES¹ GIBBS and KATHERINE CARWYTHAM are:
v. JACOB² GIBBS, b. Bet. January - March, 1629/30, Exeter, Co. Devon, England; d. March 18, 1708/09, Windsor,
Harford Co., CT.
vi. SARAH² GIBBS, b. Bef. June 05, 1631, Exeter, Co. Devon, England; d. November 01, 1689, Windsor, Harford Co.?, CT.
vii. SAMUEL² GIBBS, b. 1635, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA or Windsor, Harford Co., CT; d. February 08, 1718/19,
(East?) Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.
viii. CAPT. BENJAMIN² GIBBS, b. Bet. 1637 - 1640, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA, or Windsor, Hartford Co., CT; d. 1676,
Windsor, Hartford Co., CT?

Generations No. 3 through 7
See Descendants of Giles Gibbs compiled by James Hemenway Gibbs. This 66 page genealogical report is available as a .pdf file
which may be downloaded and viewed via Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Additional notes on Giles Gibbs and other Gibbs lines in Colonial New England

I have done extensive traditional research into Giles' line, and am currently trying to verify Giles' supposed English line that, if correct, would go back to before 1400. I have also gathered a fair amount on another early New England Gibbs immigrant, Matthew Gibbs, as I descend from him along a maternal line.

According to my research, there should be three distinct Gibbs lines in New England prior to 1650, who may or may not connect at some earlier time in England, and who thus may represent distinct DNA groups:

1. Giles Gibbs of Co. Dorset and/or Co. Somerset, England, who emigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, between 1630-33, and who soon after removed to Windsor, Connecticut, dying in Windsor in 1641.

2. Matthew Gibbs, supposedly of Co. Kent, England, who emigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1639, and who later removed to Framingham and Sudbury, Massachusetts, dying in 1697.

3. Thomas Gibbs who emigrated from England to Sandwich, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony.

There appear to be several other Gibbs lines that came to New England later during the 1700s, including at least one in Rhode Island that is thought possibly to connect to a South Carolina line of Gibbs.

There is also a Barbados line that is thought possibly to connect to the Dorset line of Giles Gibbs.

And there is the Charles City, Virginia, line of John Gibbs posted at the Gibbs Surname DNA Project web site that is said to have also come from Dorset. The DNA project shows John and Giles' lines as separate.

Giles Gibbs is believed to be the great grandson of Anthony Gibbes of Netherbury, Co. Dorset, England (Anthony > John > John > Giles). Anthony's line was documented in the Visitation of Dorsetshire of 1623 back to Honington, Warwickshire, where the Gibbs were gentry. The Visitation of Warwickshire carries this Gibbs line further back to about 1400. I have been communicating with an English participant in the Gibbs Surname DNA Project with regard to this English line -- George Gibbs, who was born in Dorset. Interestingly, his DNA is not a match to either of the two American DNA groups that claim to come from Dorset, though George has only been able to confirm his own line back to about 1800. I would be very interested in trying to establish a DNA link that would prove the Gibbs migration from Honington to Netherbury as recorded in the Visitations, and then to prove Giles' link to the same. Or is the Virginia City John Gibbs the rightful descendant of Anthony?

The earliest English Gibbs record I have found an index listing for is John Gybbys who is recorded in the Glastonbury Abbey Compotus Roll of 1338. That would seem to put a Gibbs clan in Somerset, possibly prior to the establishment of the Honington clan in Warwickshire. Gibbs is also name found in modern day France -- at least some of the English Gibbses are believed to be Anglo-Norman, i.e. associated with the Norman Conquest. My understanding is that Gibb and Gibson are typically Scottish names, and thus not Anglo-Norman. Let's see how the DNA plays out.