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Welcome to
the Wimberly
Family History Web Site!
I
started this web site on a hot summer day in July, 1997 as a project to
learn how to design web pages. It wasn't long before I discovered the
power
of using Internet e-mail and was soon connected with genealogists from
around the world. My search has since expanded to include the many
branches
of the Wimberly/Wimberley surname.
Our home page
has been improved over the years by including features suggested by my
many genealogy friends. It is now a "one-stop" Internet
location
where you can find queries from descendants of various Wimberly
branches
in the United States, Europe and South Africa, about their ancestors.
There
is a researchers page which lists the name and e-mail address of
Wimberly
family surname researchers. Don't overlook the document download page
where
there are genealogy reports on various Wimberlys (and other families)
in
Adobe Acrobat© .pdf format.
We
have included
all of the Wimberly/Wimberley entries in the 1790 to 1910 US Census for
many states of the Union.
We
believe the
Wimberly surname was introduced in the Colony of Virginia in 1673
by either John Wimberley of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire County,
England,
John
Wimberley (son of William Wimberley) of London, or John
Wimberley
of Lancashire County.
There were two
other Wimberley's that immigrated to Virginia - William and
Peter
Wimberley - in October 1672 that could be our connection to
England. These two Wimberley's were transported to Virginia by Thomas
Milner
I who was born in 1610 in Yorkshire, England and brought his
family to Richmond Co, VA in the early to mid 1600's. Milner then moved
to Nansemond County, Virginia in 1672.
According
to the land grant, Milner received 150 acres of land for the
transportation
of 3 persons, William Wimberley, Peter Wimberley, and Catherine
Barstable.
None of
these connections have been proved. We assume, therefore, there is a
common
ancestor (John or William) to start our search for our Wimberly roots
in
the United States. For additional information on the Virginia Colony,
go
to the Features section..
We recently
discovered another William Wimberly who immigrated from England to
Sangamon
County, Illinois in the early 1800's.He was born in about 1790 and died
early, leaving a wife, four sons and one daughter.
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Then there is
the branch of the Wimberly family who spells their last name with an
extra
"e" (Wimberley) and claims not to have descended from our John Wimberly
(or William Wimberly) but from a Wimberley that imigrated to Savannah,
GA from Ireland (or Scotland). They live mostly in the Hill Country of
Texas (Wimberley, Texas) and are descendants of Zachariah W.
Wimberley
and Pleasant Wimberley. My feeling is they, also, are from John
(or William) of Virginia and one day we will have proof of the
connection.
In
addition
to Elijah Wimberly data (which is my branch of the family),
there
are links to other web pages that may be of interest to you if you are
doing research on any of the other Wimberly family branches. You may
want
to start with the on-line Wimberly family database to look up over
7,508
surnames and over 2,500 Wimberlys. This database has not been updated
since
1998. I do, however, maintain an up-to-date database (Family Tree Maker
7.0) on my master computer that has over 20,430 entries of Wimberly's
and
other surnames that have married into the Wimberly family since 1455.
Good luck and
good genealogy hunting for your family roots. I began my quest for
information
on the Wimberly surname at the LDS library in Salt Lake City, Utah in
1984
and haven't been able to quit since.
Genealogy is
like reading a good mystery book; you don't want to quit until you find
all the answers. Any information you can contribute to make this web
page
more accurate or complete, please let me know. Send an e-mail to
twimberly@mchsi.com
and I will answer as soon as I'm able or phone me at (618) 997-9610
or (618) 751-0009 to answer questions about the Wimberly
surname.
It is
my sincere hope this website will help bring all branches of the
Wimberley/Wimberly
family together and remove all doubts of how and where the surname was
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Thomas L. Wimberly
2008
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