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Gilbert Robert Christian (abt. 1677 - abt. 1756)

Gilbert Robert Christian
Born about in Isle of Manmap [uncertain]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1703 in Irelandmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , and
Died about at about age 79 in Christians Creek, Augusta County, Colony of Virginiamap
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Biography

Information on Gilbert Christian 1726 - He, his family, his nephew Israel Christian and Israel's wife came to America. Landed at New Castle, Pennsylvania and spent 6 years at Derry in Lancaster Co. 1732 - Came down into the Valley of Virginia locating near what is present day Staunton Settled on a creek that he named Christian's Creek (still named this today) 1756 - A celebrated Indian fighter, he commanded a battle in Augusta Co. at age of 80 Most of his family moved to Kentucky and Tennessee From "Record of the Families of Gilbert Christian and Moses Fisk" by H. C. Christian: Gilbert Christian was born in Scotland in 1680, moved to Ireland in 1702, where sometime between 1702 and 1726, he married Elizabeth Richardson. In 1726, with his wife and three sons, John, Robert and William, and a daughter, Mary, came to Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Removed to Lancaster where he remained until 1732, when he came to what became Augusta County, Virginia. Here he lived and died. Each of his children married, lived, reared large families and died in Augusta County. Many of the descendants remained in that section; others came to Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and other states. [Bob Nichol (Nichol-198) Note: according to another source cited under Israel Christian's profile, Israel and wife followed his uncle Gilbert to the Colonies some years later. This is more likely, as in 1726 Israel Christian was much too young to have a wife.]

Birth

1677
Isle of Man, UK[1]

Death

1756
Christians Creek, Augusta Co., VA[2]

Note

Gilbert & Margaret Richardson Christian settled "Beverly Manor", Christian's Creek, Augusta Co., Va., 1733, from Penn. Today near the site of the Scott-Irish Pioneer "living" Museum Farm, Augusta Co., Va. [Linda Chandler]

Marriage

FAM
@I1840@
@I1841@
[3]
FAM
@I1838@
@I1871@
@I1772@
@I1840@
@I1842@
1670[4]

Research Notes

Disputed Parents

The below disputed parents have been detached:

Project Maintenance

  • Needs Research: Most of the sources listed in the profile appear to be to unreliable sources not appropriate for pre-1700 profiles and/or generic references to entire database. Profile needs detailed research to determine what if any of the claims in the profile are supportable by US Southern Colonies Project Reliable Sources.
  • Needs Biography: Most of the biography text is the remant of a GEDCOM upload; bio needs a coherent narrative biography supported by inline citations to reliable sources.

Wife's Mother

Mary's mother, Margaret Elizabeth Richardson's birth year is sourced on the same document as her marriage to Gilbert Christian. 1680. They were married 1703. Source Citation Source number: 1127.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Submitter Code: WTF Source Information Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S135
  2. ↑ Source: #S135
  3. ↑ Source: #S135
  4. ↑ Source: #S140

See also:

  • Enc of Virginia; FS
  • Source: S135 Author: Linda Chandler Title: Untitled Database Abbreviation: Chandler, Linda Publication: RootsWeb/21 Jan 2002 Repository: #R64 Media: Electronic Paranthetical: Y
  • Repository: R64 Name: RootsWeb
  • Source: S140 Author: John H. M. Young Title: Royal Courtenays/Carew/Alcock/McDougall/Glines Abbreviation: Young, John Publication: RootsWeb/21 Oct 2003 Repository: #R65 Media: Electronic Paranthetical: Y
  • Repository: R65 Name: RootsWeb
  • VA Colonial Militia 1651-1776
  • VA Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850
  • US SAR Membership Application
  • US Graves of Revolutionary Patriots

Acknowledgments

  • Thanks to Mary Ruth Westerman for starting this profile.
  • Thank you to Bob Nichol for creating WikiTree profile Christian-803 through the import of Willis.ged on Mar 8, 2013.




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Vickie (Ekman) Mullen
Since the unlinking of the parents of Gilbert Christian many of us have have a large limb removed from our family tree. I am hoping that we all could work on finding the missing information to once again link us back to ancestors. What is needed is proof of Gilbert Christians parents? Birth certificate, baptismal records, some accurate real document that is undisputable by all.

This will take some really hard work as the easy commonly used sources have been wrong for 300 years. Please join me in trying to find out the truth. I did travel to Isle of Man and to Dublin Ireland to study original documents. Many assumptions have been made but I have yet to see an actual document confirming for sure his ancestry.

posted by Vickie (Ekman) Mullen
Ken Spratlin
US Southern Colonies Project adding project management (PMP) and project protection (PPP)—disputed relationships.

Please continue to manage normally, and review US Southern Colonies Project Editing Guidance before editing.

posted by Ken Spratlin
Fitz-Henry-9 Jo Fitz-Henry
Is there any source for Gilbert being the son of Patrick Christian of 1687? He is not mentioned in Patrick's will abstract (only son William and daughter Mary mentioned as children).
posted by Jo Fitz-Henry
Nichol-198 Bob Nichol
Jo--I regret to have to say I have no source other than what you see on Gilbert's profile page; I would hazard a guess, though, that Gilbert's father might have settled an inheritance (if any, since primogeniture suggests he might get nothing) on him when he departed for the New World.
posted by Bob Nichol
Fitz-Henry-9 Jo Fitz-Henry
Thanks Bob. As Patrick and Mary married in 1683 and Patrick died in 1687, you would have expected Gilbert (if he was Patrick's son) to have been mentioned with the other infant children as he would have been under 5 years old.
posted by Jo Fitz-Henry
Elizabeth (Greet) Viney
I can't find any reliable source that gives a middle name Robert for this person.
posted by Elizabeth (Greet) Viney
Nichol-198 Bob Nichol
Christian-803 and Christian-761 appear to represent the same person because: These people definitely were Manxmen, not Scots. See my notes for Israel Christian, son of this Gilbert's Uncle William. --Bob Nichol
posted by Bob Nichol

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