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8-Dec-04 Retired Cornish mine engineer John Higgins advised he has just finished a Cornish Mining website built around his 1855-1859 Wheal Agar (of Illogan) mine cost book www.higgsoldminestats.com Ed: This site is a must visit destination if you want to gain an understanding of exactly how Cornish mines of this era (that of our Cornish Gribble forefathers) operated. John has done a fantastic job.
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21-Oct-04 Lois advised of a Kittelty reunion being organised by descendants John Sanders & Jean Carr. Ed: Jan & I attended in Geelong on 31 October. A wonderful day and lots of data on Sophia's siblings and Scottish family. We actually sat with descendants of her brother James Cato Kittelty who also lived in Northcote the same time as she and Simon. Hard to say who was most surprised! Took away photographs of Sophia's brothers William Norman and Solomon who went to live in NZ. Amazing!! John will be attending the reunion and he is a very keen genealogist. You can email him jhsanders@ozemail.com.au
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24-Sep-04 Helen(d of Stanley Gribble gen 7 of tree) sent a cd of Stan interviewing his aunt Nell Hutton (one of WA's first nurses who went on probation at Kalgoorlie in 1899 after initial training at Geraldton in 1897) on her 98th birthday c1975. On the cd Nell recounts first meeting Charles Gribble in Kalgoorlie where he was working, interaction with Ted Blair and Rita and Lily at Sandstone, meeting Simon Gribble and his wife in Melbourne, visiting her rellies in Ballarat - Richardson, Scotts and even a Bessie Gribble who died in 1942. Stan wants to elicit her knowledge of Simon's siblings following a visit from a young uni student whose father was a doctor in Adelaide. Stan was so excited by this visitation that he phoned his brother Alf to see if he knew anything and to ask what he thought about the possibility of a German origin some 600 years earlier and the idea that the word Gribble was said to mean 'an old gnarled stick' in German! Ed Wow this one hour long cd sure was a blast out of the past! Great though to have verbal confirmation of Charles Gribbles gold mining history.
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24-Sep-04 Lurlean of S Aust forwarded a draft of the story of our 'Colonial Pioneers' from the Gribble book 'A Journey into the Unknown (The John Gribble Story)' for publication in 2005. John, a son of William Gribble and Mary Vinicombe, was born Barnstaple, baptised Crediton and came to S Aust in 1838 where he led an eventful and successful life largely in farming and farm services. Ed Crediton in Devon is 25 miles from Barnstaple and very close at 8 miles to the old stannary town of Chagford. It was to here one of Simon's ancestors siblings (Simon Gribble bap Illogan 1801 went to live and beget two children Joseph (1833) & Ellen (1834). While the odds have to favour our ancestry to be Illogan based via Richard Gribbell and Grace (unknown) I was struck by this John Gribble naming his children William, John, Mary, and Jane circa 1830. Was there some distant link? I have no idea.
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5-Sep-04 Beryl (gd of William Gribble Gen 6(iii) of tree) advised Vic Federation Index lists a marriage for Simon Gribble in 1891 and Eva's diary refers to a stepmother Sarah. That Eva's postcard album contained a clipping from the Box Hill Reporter of Sept 2 1896 which noted 'even in these dull times something is moving', that W & C Gribble (after the sale of W's business) would leave next week for the West but Mrs Gribble would remove to Northcote and the family would be sorely missed by the Box Hill Wesleyan Church especially the choir. That the parental link to William Gribble and Joan Blight of Illogan was first asserted by a Cornish/English researcher commissioned by Trescowthick descendants some 30 years ago. Ed This marriage of Simon has been confirmed. Also Eva's diary had Charles and Lily living with William and his family after Simon's marriage to Sarah. If there are no other Gribbles who can trace their ancestry to William (bap 1774) son of William & Joan of Illogan then it becomes highly probable that this link is more than a simple assertion. Thus far I have not come across any other William Gribble record of death or marriage that might qualify. However in the absence of positive proof, Bawden's comment re age at death of our William, and the absence in our line of the mothers name Joan I remain sceptical.
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17-Aug-04 Joan (ggd of Benjamin Gribble bap Redruth 1810) emailed her line and noted the Rev J B Gribble (C of E aboriginal missioner) as a sibling of her ancestor Mary. Ed A number of books on the life of JBG are listed in the bibliography. His struggle was an epic story of naked power, naivety, courage and tragedy. Interesting to work out the relationship using the tree from Jelbert's website. The Richard (b cir 1668) who initiates the Illogan tree (according to me but not agreed by all!) had ten birth siblings including brothers William (b cir 1662), John (Joan's ancestor bap 1671), and Benjamin (bap 1682). What grabs me is the timing and the names which appear in the early Illogan parish records transcribed by Bawden. Do we have here pointers to the mysterious William and John? Not to say a likely explanation for the name Benjamin which was so popular among the early Illogan Gribbles? I believe the evidence is persuasive.
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18-Apr-04 James of Melbourne & 'descendant of Susannah Gribble who married John Trescowthick at Illogan 24 Apr 1824, had 11 children & died in Illogan in 1872' gave some feedback. Ed News to me that Susannah was buried in Illogan & that she had 11 children. Good news actually as it raises the chance there might be descendants of this marriage alive in the UK aware of a fuller ancestry for this Susannah Gribble. In particular exactly who were her Gribble grandparents? Thus far no Illogan Gribble researcher has forwarded any convincing proof for the parentage of her father William Gribble who married Susanna Retallick in 1794. Does it matter some have asked? Absolutely! What particulary frustrates is the fact that in the past 12 months quite a number of Gribble threads pre-1700 are starting to come together. Maybe there will be a breakthrough before our 150 year Simon Gribble anniversary celebration in November 2004!
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26-Feb-04 Vic (ggs of Stephen Uren Gribble) architect/translator/genealogist/retiree resident in Sweden touched base again. Ed Vic is a descendant of one of the two sets of Gribble orphans left when the siblings of Simon Gribble, Stephen and Joseph died prematurely. I had no idea these families existed prior to this research. Revisiting some of my early notes I see that Mary Goad the wife of Stephen Uren Gribble might be the sister of one Thomas Goad who married Sarah Gribble (sibling of Simon Gribble). It is possible there is another line of descendants out there I am also unaware of.
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31-Jan-04 Barry of Truro/Redruth emailed to let me know there are still people bearing the name 'Gribble' in Illogan and that he enjoyed reading the site. His grandfather was also called Charles Gribble and he too married a Grace!
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8-Jan-04 Ian kindly forwarded a copy of Chapter 3: 'From Sancreed to Camborne' of collected ramblings concerning his Gribble ancestry. Ed An interesting presentation and speculation linking Camborne Gribbles to those of Sancreed. I was pleased to find another who agrees Richard Gribble (of Camborne) had two wives - Marjery(no issue) followed by Grace with issue of eight. Based on Bawden I identify this Richard as Illogan's original Gribble but Ian treats this link as only a 'claim'.
