John Gribble (1701 - abt. 1777)

Born 1701 in Camborne, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Osbran) Gribble — married 6 Dec 1729 (to before 3 Jul 1747) in Camborne, Cornwall, England

Descendants

Died about 8 Jun 1777 at about age 76 in Camborne, Cornwall, England [uncertain]

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Biography

In a sense John and Ann Gribble are our missing links. We know they were there but there is little evidence of their presence.^[1]

I have represented this couple, as an approximate but highly significant point of change for the family. Either he, or his son Arthur, was the first of the Gribbles who worked as a full time miner after his stone mason predecessors, thus commencing a 200 year tradition in this family branch. Unbeknown to John’s grandfather, William Gribell, he had settled one hundred years previously in what was to become the richest mining area in England and in the world for that matter and investors were beginning to realize the underground.wealth. Mining techniques still had to be mechanized but already the seeds for this had been sown as far back as 1600. A social and industrial explosion was about to hit sleepy Camborne. The expansion of mining around Camborne was very rapid when it came. John, would have been dumbstruck had he known that within a hundred years his beloved Camborne would become the most industrialized area in the world. Because during the 1830’s two hundred mines would employ 30,000 miners. The mining industry’s ability to provide long term and expanding levels of employment was probably instrumental in the Gribbles staying so close to Camborne for so long, even after the industrial revolution changed the demography of the country. ^[2]

John was born at the turn of the 17th century as the fourth son to William Gribell and Elizabeth. Baptized on 17 May 1701 at St. Martin’s Church of England in Camborne, ^[3] he became the third generation of our particular branch to live in Camborne.

As John Greball he married Ann Ousbrun [or Osborne] on 6 December 1729 with issue of six children:

Elizabeth,

John,

John,

Jane,

Benjamin, and

Arthur. ^[4]

The dates of death of John and Ann Gribell are unknown.

l Presumably, John, the first born son, died young.

l His youngest child Arthur continued this branch of Gribbles. In addition to Arthur, three of his six surviving children, married:

l Elizabeth married Arthur Bennets. [Arthur was probably a relative of William Grebell’s partner in crime some 40 years earlier.] ^[5]

l Benjamin married Catherine Williams^[6]

l John married first Elizabeth Eade and second Mary Rabnet.^[7] There was no issue from the first marriage and from the second an only son, Zaccheus, created a line of the family that is now well established in Australia. Faye Robinson is a major researcher of this branch.

l John Gribell’s [1736] great grandsons Mathew and William, both grandsons of Zaccheus, married Elizabeth Jane Hurley and Mary Ann Williams respectively. ^[8] with other great grandchildren such as Charles Gribble and his brothers and sisters and cousins, both migrated from Cornwall to Victoria, Australia in the great exodus during the 1850s. ^[9]

The two couples produced large families in Timor a small gold mining township near Maryborough, Victoria with the result that the families are now widespread throughout Australia.^[10]

John was therefore a very small boy of three when his grandfather William Gribell 1632, the progenitor of the Camborne Gribbles died in Camborne. He would have known his grandmother Katheryn, now in her dotage and would have been a mature man of 27 when she died.^[11]

We can therefore assume that:

l The village of Camborne and its surrounds was now well filled with Gribbles and their spouses and because of the longevity displayed by both William Gribell and William Grebell three generations at least, must have intermingled regularly and helped one another.

l Not all of the sons and grandsons of William Grebell could be masons so it would be no surprise to find that John had been a crofter miner like his son Arthur. Crofter became the accepted name for men who, whilst employed as miners, also farmed on small tenements. William Grebell and William Gribell were in a sense crofter masons.

Perhaps they relocated from Camborne? There is also no record of John Gribell leaving a will when he died aged 47 [approx] , nor is there a record of the administration of his estate, ^[12] like that of Thomas Greeble, his great uncle.

Without information from a will, John’s occupation remains a mystery. His father was a stone mason and his son Arthur a miner. Just where he fits into the overall picture may be never known.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
2. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
3. ↑ International Genealogical Index; Church of the Latter Day Saints
4. ↑ International Genealogical Index
5. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
6. ↑ St Martins Church of England registers
7. ↑ St Martins Church of England registers
8. ↑ International Genealogical Index
9. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
10. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
11. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan
12. ↑ Wills and Probates
13. ↑ Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan

• England Births and Christenings 1538-1975

Name John Grible Gender Male Christening Date 10 May 1701 Christening Date (Original) 10 MAY 1701 Christening Place CAMBORNE,CORNWALL,ENGLAND Father's Name William Grible Citig this Record "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J39Y-X2B : 11 February 2018, John Grible, 10 May 1701); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 0236535, 1471743 IT 2-3. No image available England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Indexing Project (Batch) Number P00207-1 System Origin England-ODM GS Film number 0236535 1471743IT2-3 References 1.Gribble Ian: "Flash in the Pan" A History of the Camborne Gribbles; Self Published; 1 Jan 2008; ISBN: 978- 0 - 9803307 -1-7 2. International Genealogical Index; Church of the Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 3. St Martins Church of England registers, Camborne 4. Wills and Probates; Public Records Office, Truro,

• England Marriages 1538-1973

name John Grible Spouse's Name An Ousbran Or Osbran Event Date 06 Dec 1729 Event Place Camborne,Cornwall,England Citing this Record "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVRB-RY2 : 10 February 2018), John Grible and An Ousbran Or Osbran, 06 Dec 1729; citing Camborne,Cornwall,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1471743 IT 2-3. No image available England Marriages, 1538–1973 Indexing Project (Batch) Number M00207-1 System Origin England-ODM GS Film number 1471743 IT 2-3

• England Deaths and Burials 1538-1973

England, Cornwall Parish Registers Name John Gribble Event Type Burial Event Date 08 Jun 1777 Event Place Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom Father's Name William Page 355 Citing this Record "England, Cornwall Parish Registers, 1538-2010," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLV-YJ3T : 2 February 2018), John Gribble, 08 Jun 1777; citing Burial, Camborne, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Cornwall Records Office, Truro.