MARGARET WILSON GAMBLE born about 1780

In County Cavan, Ireland thee are two land records showing a partnership between George Gamble, whom Margaret married, and a Robert Wilson and a John Wilson who were probably relatives of hers, but I haven't been able to trace her family.  George and Margaret had six or seven children, and according to one cousin, their families were originally from Glasgow.  In 1821 after George's father died, the family, including George's widowed mother, went to America.

One of Margaret's sons, Robert, wrote the following in a letter in 1896 when he was 88.

"We lived in Rooskey Township which is 40 miles from Dublin.  My father and I was at the bank of Dublin getting some money changed, it was well guarded with soldiers, they had their red coats on and their big guns in their hands.  We left Rooskey the eighth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one.  We staid one day in Dublin then my father got a ship that was to sail for St. John's New Brunswick that is in the British Dominion.  Then we landed in St. Johns then my brother William got sick and we stayed there nine days.  then my father got another ship that was loaded with plaster of paris to bring us to Moose Island on leubeck . . . then he got another ship to bring us to Baltimore then he hired a four horse team to bring us over the mountains to Steubenville that is on the Ohio River . . . then he hired another man to bring us to Leesville, Ohio to his brother."

According to a family story, and according to a history of Carroll County, Ohio, a daughter, Mathilda, died on the trip over and was buried at St. John's.  But Robert didn't mention that in his 1896 letter.

The Gambles eventually settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio where they owned 480 acres.  In 1842, their son, Alexander, and his wife moved further west to Scott County, Indiana.

It's a small world.  Two hundred years after Margaret and George left Rooskey Township, my daughter married a man who also had ancestors there at the same time.


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