again used until at least after the 1871 Census, by 1876 the
family were again using Gillbanks
as their surname. One of Isaac's witnesses to
his 1841 marriage to Ruth Briden signed his name Isaac Gill Banks with a
distinctive space between Gill and Banks, he also used a capital B for Banks, see
Isaac's Marriage Cert. There is also the mystery
of the Gilbanks family from Lindend, why are there no baptisms for any of the
children pre-1784?. There are also no marriages or burials for the Banks
children, did the family move away before they reached marriageable age? Lindend
was a hamlet from where just four families are mentioned in the Broughton Parish
Registers, Wennington, Carter, Banks pre 1771, and Gilbanks post 1783. My theory
is that the Banks/Gillbanks families are one and the same family.
See
My Theory to see how I formed this opinion, or are the names and dates
just a co-incidence and I'm clutching at straws.
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