Gibson, aka Wilburn, VA 1700s
I am cleaning out old genealogy correspondence from over 40 years ago that do not directly relate to our lines, and I came across an old letter that may, or may not, be of interest to some Gibson researcher.It was sent to me by another researcher many, many years ago.She was researching the Wilburn families in Goochland/Louisa Counties, VA in the early to mid 1700s, and she suggested that the Wilburns there were originally Gibsons.She mentioned court records where the entries were Gibson aka Wilburn (Wilbourn, Welborn).This perhaps implies that some family was changing the Gibson name to Wilburn.She was researching in Hanover, Henrico, but primarily in Louisa and Goochland Counties, and her message isn't clear about where she saw the court records (but I would guess Louisa or Goochland).
I can provide no further information on this.I never personally pursued her comment because the Wilburns in Louisa and Goochland in the 1700s are definitely NOT our line.I hope this may be helpful to some researcher who lost track of their line in Louisa and/or Goochland and wouldn't think to look under the name Gibson aka Wilburn.I do not vouch for her research (she is no longer here to speak for herself) and can provide nothing more on it.Since I am shredding lots of old correspondence, I wanted to post some of the unusual things in some of the letters before destroying them--just as a possible line of investigation--not as proven fact.
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