Why does he suspiciously have two wives, both named Elizabeth? One was born "estimated between 1483 and 1543," so someone was careless in their attempt to create a false link. The other links to a much more prominent family instead of the dead ends and short branches that are associated with this direct line of men for a half dozen generations after this. Are there any sources for this, or did someone fabricate this? Until someone can provide evidence, I'm siding with fabrication.
Two different sets of parents, how about contacting the managers???
Elizabeth Gilbert
Birth: circa 1210
Clist Champernowne, Devonshire, England
Managed by: Scott David Hibbard
Daughter of Oliver de Champernon, Knight and Wymarca de Champernon
Elizabeth Gilbert
Birth: Birth estimated between 1483 and 1543
Managed by: Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE
Daughter of John Godolphin and Elizabeth Godolphin
Another descendant of William Gilbert born 1204, this William Gilbert profile with unknown wife
William Gilbert, of Bridge Ruh, Cornwall
https://books.google.com/books?id=JL4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&lpg...
This bit on pp. 130-1 of American Ancestry, volume XII (1899) is all I have so far, Erica Howton
Who is Thelma Jean Morrissey?
And are these Williams in Visitations anywhere? I didn’t see him in Devon. What about Cornwall?
There are IPMs attached here, they should help:
Sir Otes Gilbert, of Compton (look at the sources tab)
This Sir Otes Gilbert, of Compton has birth date that b 1418 doesn’t match sibling William Gilbert, Il b 1383
I think he’s another Sir Otho. The names Isabella / Elizabeth seemed interchangeable.
https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/4623518556710081734
What do you think?
OK. Got all the Otes Gilbert’s consolidated, but I fear he has too many children.
Also, what is this name?
Thelma Jean Morrissey Wife of William Gilbert
Not a name for 1520.
That Thelma Jean is a wild card, Erica. I don't trust her one bit. :)
Meanwhile though, here is some evidence of another Otes / Othes Gilbert who died 1547, married to Katherine Champernown.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/gi...
That later Otho Gilbert had a notable son.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Gilbert
Gilbert was part of a remarkable generation of Devonshire men, who combined the roles of adventurer, writer, soldier and mariner. A. L. Rowse wrote of him as,
an interesting psychological case, with the symptoms of disturbed personality that often go with men of mark, not at all the simple Elizabethan seaman of Froude's Victorian view. He was passionate and impulsive, a nature liable to violence and cruelty – as came out in his savage repression of rebels in Ireland – but also intellectual and visionary, a questing and original mind, with the personal magnetism that went with it. People were apt to be both attracted and repelled by him, to follow his leadership and yet be mistrustful of him.[17]
Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 406. pedigree of Gilbert
Is Sir Olever Gilbert Kt another name for Otes?
Are Cornish pedigrees always this annoying?
https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun091874/page/87/mode/1up...+
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilbert-9954 Presents evidence that Alice Mules married a different Otes Gilbert based on age of his son.
Note: This Otes may be one and the same as Otes Gilbert who is known to have married Elizabeth Hill but the age of the William Gilbert the son of the Otes in this profile does not seem to fit with the William of the other Otes based on age as that William would probably need to have been the 1st son. So the two Otes' could be cousins.
Birth year based on age mentioned in 22 Oct 1443 at the Inquisition at Exeter on the death of John Mulys:[1]
....John Mulys died on 13 September last. His kin and next heirs, who are also the kin and next heirs of Joan his first wife, are: William Gylbert , the son of Alice, one of the daughters of John, aged 7 on 25 March last; Joan Dabernon , the daughter of Isabel, the other daughter of John, aged 9 on 10 September last; and Elizabeth Dabernon , the other daughter of this Isabel, aged 7 on 4 August last. William’s marriage pertains by right to his father Otes Gylbert , who survives, aged 26 and more, and not to the king or any other.
8 Nov 1450: Elizabeth Dabernon:[2]
She is the kin and heir of John Mulys, as one of the daughters of Isabel, one of the daughters of John. Majority claimed by John Giffard, her husband. By royal grant, the lands and tenements from her inheritance are in the custody of Otes Gilberd. The escheator of Devon is ordered to prove the age of Elizabeth, who is said to have been born and baptized at Swimbridge, and to warn Otes to be present. [Dorse:] Memorandum that Otes was warned to be at Exeter on 18 November by Nicholas Bokelly, escheator.
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I’m going ahead and setting up another Otes.
Erica Howton Is she time traveling?
Elizabeth de Champernon
She came through the portal at Skywalker Ranch. ROFL
Anne Brannen “a fine Elizabethan hand” I cannot decipher at all.
https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000128414774823&
Luckily the sainted Essex Institute published it in actual English (next upload)
Detaching extra children of Otes Gilbert & Elizabeth Hill:
Lady Mary Oram & Galfrid Gilbert
Will add children gone missing, Otys, William and Gefferey.
So - is this William the one in Cornwall? Who married Thelma Jean?
This is all I got so far.
The visitation of the county of Cornwall, in the year 1620. Author: St. George, Henry, 1581-1644,Lennard, Samson, -1633,Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick), 1830-1896,Drake, Henry Holman,College of Arms (Great Britain). Page 87. Archive.Org listed as Sir Olever Gilbert, Kt.
https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun091874/page/87/mode/1up