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![Show Contents]() Gable History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The ancient Anglo-Saxon surname Gable came from Gabriel or Cebrail, an archangel in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran. 1 2 The name denotes "descendant of Gabriel (God is my strength)." 3 The Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae records William Gabriel of Normandy in 1195. 4 Early Origins of the Gable familyThe surname Gable was first found in Sussex where the Curia Regis Rolls of 1212 record Gabriel filius Reginaldi. Early rolls often listed this name as a forename as later the Subsidy Rolls of 1296 list Gabriele Spyg, again in Sussex. The same rolls go on to include Roger Gabyrel in the same year. In Suffolk, the Subsidy Rolls there include Nicholas Gabryel in 1327. 5 Again as a forename, we found two entries in the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273: Gabriel Attelond, Kent; and Gabel Brenn, Norfolk. The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1370 had only one entry: Thomas Gabriell who held lands there at that time. 6 Further north in Scotland, the name was mostly found in Aberdeenshire. "As a forename we have Gabriel Gymmill in Edinburgh, 1599. David Gabriel, a prominent citizen in Aberdeen, died in December, 1939. I have read somewhere that the family of Gabriel of Aberdeen is descended from a Gabriel Grant, but no such person appears in Sir William Fraser's Chiefs of Grant." 7 Early History of the Gable familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gable research. Another 109 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1212, 1273, 1455, 1487, 1825 and 1867 are included under the topic Early Gable History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Gable Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Gable family name include Gabriel, Gable, Gabell, Gaball, Gableson and many more. Early Notables of the Gable familyDistinguished members of the family include Mary Ann Virginia Gabriel, born at Banstead, Surrey, Feb. 7, 1825, learned the piano from Pixis, Döhler, and Thalberg, and harmony and construction from Molique. Her principal work...
Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Gable Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Gable RankingIn the United States, the name Gable is the 3,339th most popular surname with an estimated 9,948 people with that name. 8
 Gable migration to the United States | + |
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Gable surname or a spelling variation of the name include:
Gable Settlers in United States in the 17th Century- John Gable, who landed in Virginia in 1662 9
Gable Settlers in United States in the 18th Century- Conrad Gable, aged 67, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1738 9
- Johan Peter Gable, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1752 9
- John Peter Gable, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1773 9
Gable Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- George Gable, who arrived in Baltimore, Maryland in 1832 9
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Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Gable Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century- John Gable, who landed in Canada in 1831
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Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include: Gable Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century- Mr. Joseph Gable, British Convict who was convicted in Middlesex, England for life , transported aboard the "Commodore Hayes" in April 1823, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) 10
- Mr. William Gable, English convict who was convicted in London, England for 10 years, transported aboard the "Bangalore" on 28th March 1848, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) from Bermuda 11
| Contemporary Notables of the name Gable (post 1700) | + |
- William "Clark" Gable (1901-1960), American film actor, best known for his role as Rhett Butler the epic film Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Guitar Gable (1937-2017), stage name of Gabriel Perrodin, American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop musician
- Carl "C. J." Gable (b. 1987), American NFL football running back for the Denver Broncos
- June Gable (b. 1945), Tony award-nominated American actress
- Jeremy Gable (b. 1982), American playwright
- Brian Gable (b. 1949), Canadian editorial cartoonist for The Globe and Mail, and won National Newspaper Awards in 1986, 1995, 2001 and 2005
- Christopher Gable CBE (1940-1998), English ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor named a Commander of the British Empire in 1996
| Suggested Readings for the name Gable | + |
- Mayflower to the Moon: Herveys & Gables by Donald G. Hervey.
- Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- Harrison, Henry, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary Baltimore: Geneological Publishing Company, 2013. Print
- Smith, Eldson Coles, New Dictionary of American Family Names New York: Harper & Row, 1956. Print
- The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)
- Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
- Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
- Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- Convict Records of Australia. Retrieved 4th March 2021 from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/commodore-hayes
- Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 15th September 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/bangalore
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