William Gillbanks of Red Sykes, Matterdale.

[RossGillbanks]

Hi Jim hope you are well, Digging up an old thread here but I wanted to add the info I have;
William who died 1774 married Mary Cockbain.

Williams parents (based on my research) are George Gilbank and Agnes Watson

William and Mary Cockbain had two children,
Thomas Gilbank 1740
George Gilbank 1741

William I think was previously married to Elizabeth Ritson and they had two children
Robert Gilbank 1731
Mary Gilbank 1734

George 1741 Married Sarah Dawson, I only know of one child John Gilbanks b1771

John Married Elizabeth Relph/Relf and they had a fair few children

Mary Gilbanks 1798
John Gilbanks 1800
Joesph Gilbanks 1803
Hannah Gilbanks 1804
Sarah Gilbanks 1807
Benjamin Gilbanks 1809
William Relph Gilbanks 1813
Elizabeth Gilbanks 1815
James Gilbanks 1816

You wont find some of these baptisms, from memory 1815 and 1816 only exist within parish records and were never transcribed online. As you know Jim I descend from James 1816.

Heres one descendant thats sure to jog your memory;

Joesph 1803 had a Daughter Hannah b1847 who married Richard Mason I'm sure you know the rest for this line.

I hope this is useful or for anyone else looking at this line, Gillbanks within the Threlkeld area can be troublesome. To add to the mix John and Elizabeth Relph/Relf has some children Baptised in Whitehaven. From memory it was William 1813, Elizabeth 1815 and James 1816. The others I think where Threlkeld.

 

[jimgillbanks]

Hi Ross, thanks for the update. I have had a bit of trouble with this laptop and seem to have lost a bit of information from it. I think some of the Gillbanks crew moved to Ambleside and a couple of the men later lived in Ingleton Yorkshire, but as far as I could determine none of them had any children, I could be wrong though.

[NZGillbank]

Such and old post, but for many years I seem to get "pulled" back to this thread (Matterdale, Threlkeld, Gillbanks (and its variations), Relph etc.) , so to help complete the circle I have registered and here are some further details, linked to my part of the Gillbanks family.

I am the grt, grt grandson of one of the men who moved to Ingleton, Joseph (1801 - 1886), who founded the Masons Arms pub in Ingleton in the 1840s.

Joseph did have a family, his son Joseph George ("George") emigrated to New Zealand in 1879, and ended up marrying and settling in Karamea on the west coast of the South Island.

I currently live in Christchurch, New Zealand, but was born in Karamea.