Some Of The Surnames In This Line:
Gamble, Gambill, Miller, Holder, Andrews, Nash, Gatton
Gamble Genealogy
My Gamble line is probably my least researched line, at least by me!
Fortunately, there have been quite a few folks in the Gamble line who have taken care of researching their lines. My cousin, Dorothy Landers Fisher, has gotten quite a bit of info from them and I have been able to add a bit more from online sources as well.
I have been able to go as far back as my 5th-great-grandparents, Robert Gambill and Catherine Gatton. The name change is something that I will have to take in to account as I go forward but that is something I am used to since my Stevensons did the same thing.
Eventually, I will add my documentation, clarify some dates, and extend this a little further. If you notice any errors or omissions, please email me and let me know!
The name GAMBLE derives from the Old Norse "gamall" meaning "old" and would have originated around the time of the Norwegian invasions of England. The Old Danish and Old Swedish forms are similar, "gamal". There are a number of variants from this common root, including Gambell, Gammel and Gamel.
P.H. Reaney continues:
"The Scandinavians, unlike the Anglo Saxons and the continental Germans, had a habit of using the same personal-name in different generations and branches of the same family. ..... The result of this custom was that in time there were so many men bearing the same name that it was found necessary to distinguish them by a nickname or byname descriptive of some physical characteristic, some habit or a reference to a particular incident. Many of these bynames were innocuous, some complimentary, others derogatory, characteristic of the gross humour and acute realism of the Vikings."
So the name derives from a Scandinavian byname and according to P.H. Reaney falls into the class of "Surnames of Relationship".
A quote from Peter Gamble's page that can be found here.
My Complete Line:
Click on the link above to check out my complete line. Just as it says, it is complete. You will find everything that I know and it will branch out as far as I can. The only limitations is that it will not branch out to the Spangler side. There is a separate section for that line!
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