Gilson History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Gilson family

The surname Gilson was first found in Dumfriesshire and in Warwickshire at Gilson, a hamlet that dates back to 1232 AD. Gilston is a village near Harlow in the county of Hertfordshire. It dates back to 1197 when it was first listed as Gedelston and literally meant "farmstead or village of a man called Gedel or Gydel," from the Old English personal name + "tun." ^[1]

Important Dates for the Gilson family

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Gilson Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Gillson, Gilson, Gillieson and others.

Early Notables of the Gilson family (pre 1700)

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Migration of the Gilson family to Ireland

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Gilson migration to the United States

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Gilson Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

• William Gilson, who arrived in New England in 1633 ^[2]
• Ann Gilson, who settled in New England in 1635
• Thomas Gilson, who settled in Barbados in 1635
• Ann Gilson, aged 34, who arrived in America in 1635 ^[2]
• Andrew Gilson, who landed in Virginia in 1650 ^[2]
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Gilson Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

• Eliza Gilson, who arrived in Virginia in 1701 ^[2]

Gilson Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

• Richard Gilson, aged 35, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1812 ^[2]
• John Gilson, who arrived in New York, NY in 1816 ^[2]
• Tinely Gilson, aged 25, who arrived in New York in 1849 ^[2]
• Thomas Gilson, who landed in Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1884 ^[2]

Contemporary Notables of the name Gilson (post 1700)

• Tom Gilson (1934-1962), American actor
• Harold "Hal" Gilson (b. 1942), American former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Georges Robert Edmond Gilson (b. 1929), French Catholic bishop
• Étienne Gilson (1884-1978), French Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy
• Glenda Gilson (b. 1981), Irish model and television presenter
• Paul Gilson (1865-1942), Belgian musician and composer
• William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919), American botanist, president of the American Society of Naturalists (1899)
• Gilson Alvaristo (1956-2016), Brazilian cyclist at the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics

Citations

1. ^ Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
2. ^ 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)