The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

Searchers

If you would like your request to be included in this section, please submit a brief, but specific, email or letter of enquiry or send a 'Word' based article with relevant names (and particularly your own name and address) detailed in BLOCK CAPITALS to Editor, Hampshire Genealogical Society, Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester. SO23 8TH. Please advise what contact details you want printed in the journal along with your query – email, telephone number, postal address, or via HGS Office, research@hgs-online.org.uk Please be patient as acknowledgement or reply Searche

will not be made except through this journal. Photographs and illustrations are gladly accepted: – 300 dpi resolution jpegs by email attachment or on CD are welcome or laser colour photocopies (never ordinary ones) or black and white original pictures. All can be returned if you request it and supply an SAE. If sending original photographs through the post, please use a protective board envelope. EMAIL: searchers@hgs-online.org.uk and please always quote a full postal address for those without computers. If this is not done, your request may well be disregarded.

Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, d. = died, mrd = married. Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes.

Jeanette Dunigan msjdunigan@gmail.com

William Gambling

Looking for info on William GAMBLING. I have no idea when he was born but his wife was born about 1759. He married Mary Burrows on 9 Nov 1785, Antony Parish, Cornwall. They had at least 4 children: Lucretia BURROWS GAMBLING (1788-1858), Mary

PHILLIPS GAMBLING (1794-1868), William BURROWS GAMBLING (1797-1797) and WILLIAM BURRIS GAMBLING (b.1804). William GAMBLING was a sailor. According to military records he was on the vessel “Rota” in 1812. In the 1841 census, his wife Mary was listed as widowed and living with her

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