John Gilbert

Bef 1580 - 1657  (> 75 years)

• Name	John Gilbert
  Birth	Bef 30 Aug 1580  [1, 2]
  Baptism	30 Aug 1580	Bridgwater, Somerset, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 5 Apr 1656 and 3 Jun 1657	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I43832	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Giles Gilbert,   b. Between 1530 and 1535   d. Bef 17 Jun 1595 (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Joan Pearce   d. Bef 18 Apr 1597
  Marriage	10 Aug 1571	Bridgwater, Somerset, England   [2]
  Family ID	F25606	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Hopkins   d. Bef 25 Apr 1618
  Marriage	Sep 1606  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Gilbert,   b. Abt 1613   d. Between 1676 and 1677 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Family ID	F25604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1635 with his third wife Winifred (_____) Combe and family on the Hopewell. First at Dorchester, then Taunton in 1638.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2827] Gilberts of New England, Part I: Descendants of John Gilbert of Dorchester by George Gordon Gilbert and Geoffrey Gilbert. Victoria, British Columbia, 1959.