Nicholas Barnabas Gilbert (abt. 1740 - 1789)

Born about 1740 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Husband of Margaret (Christian) Green — married 1760 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1789 at about age 49 in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Nicholas Barnabas Gilbert was born in 1736, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Nicholas William Gilbert, (1719 – 13 August 1772) and his mother, Joanna Margaret Vanlandingham (1721 – 1746). :There is a Nicholas Gilbert listed in census b. 1719 - d. 1784 who could be his father.^{[citation needed]}

He married Margaret Christian in 1760, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters.

He died on 3 February 1789, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 53.

Nicholas or "Barney" Gilbert's birth year is not known for certain nor for that matter is his birth place or his parents or that his proper name was Nicholas. His unsourced' FindAGrave memorial is not for a gravestone and is just another site speculating as to facts.^[1] So the 1740 estimate for his birth year is just that pending any other facts being unearthed.

From census records and Will probate, Nicholas Barnabas Gilbert was living in Lancaster Co, PA and married Margaret Christian there.^{[citation needed]}

By the time children came along, the family was living in Bourbon County, KY, where Barney died in 1789.^{[citation needed]}

The children were

1. Nicholas,
2. Barbary,
3. Margaret,
4. Barnabas,
5. Catherine,
6. Christian and
7. Christina.

His widow, Margaret, went on to marry James GREEN.^[2]

NOTES

1789 Bourbon County, Kentucky Taxpayer-Barney Gilbert.^{[citation needed]}

1790: March Court at Bourbon County, Kentucky, page 271: Margaret Gilbert appointed as Administrator for Barney Gilbert deceased with Jacob Hester as security and John Burk, Jacob Blankstone, Jacob Hester, Sr and Nicholas Dylon appointed to appraise hiis personal estate. The June Court (page 292) is the recorded inventory of his estate, value L 110 (110 pounds).^[3],^[4]

Research Notes

Possibly his son, Barnabas Gilbert married Elizabeth Hilbias 31 Dec 1788 Lincoln, Kentucky,^[5] alternate names Hellercost, and Elizabeth Pitts Helligoss [in an Index] Spouse's Father's Name Georg Hellercost, Spouse's Mother's Name Mary Hellercost

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #92359456
2. ↑ Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky. 3 Dec 1790, Bourbon, Kentucky. Film Number: 000851644
3. ↑ "Kentucky Probate Records, 1727-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9P3X-VY8?cc=1875188&wc=37RP-7MQ%3A173384901%2C173458401 : 20 May 2014), Bourbon > Will records, 1786-1798, Vol. A > image 17 of 175; county courthouses, Kentucky.
4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/dascloud/das/v2/3:1:33S7-9P3X-VY8/dist.jpg?ctx=CrxCtxPublicAccess&header=Content-Disposition&headerValue=attachment%3B filename%3Drecord-image_.jpg
5. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG16-9FTG : 9 March 2021), Barnabas Gilbert and Elizabeth Hilbias, 31 Dec 1788; citing Marriage, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 192,262.

• Listed as a source by others but relevance not known: Re: Robert Alexander 1755 Va./Stokes. Title: John Alexander Military Pension Record, D/257--July 30, 1818. Author: Alice Moody

• Listed as a source by others but relevance not known: History of the Hester Family by Mark Hester, p.1

• Ancestry.com. "[1]." U.S. and International Marriages. Accessed 1 Jan 2023.

• Ancestry.com "[2]." Kentucky, U.S., Tax Lists, 1799-1801. Accessed 1 Jan 2023.

• Familysearch.org. "[3]." Bourbon. Will Books 1795–1805, Will Books 1786–1805. Accessed 1 Jan 2023.