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Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE (1808 - 1889)
Cordwainer (bootmaker)
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Thomas GRIBBLE (1837 - 1927)
Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE (1808 - 1889)

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Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE

Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE
Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE
b. abt 1808 at Totnes, Devon, England
m. 1836 Agnes Sandford JONES ( - 1876) at Teignmouth, Devon, England
d. 1889 aged 81
Near Relatives of Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE (1808 - 1889)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Self Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE abt 1808 Totnes, Devon, England 1889 81

Wife Agnes Sandford JONES 1876

Son Thomas GRIBBLE 1837 West Teignmouth, Devon, England 19 Jul 1927 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 90

Daughter in Law Katherine WARREN abt 1832 Ireland 27 Jan 1920 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 88

Granddaughter Emma Louisa GRIBBLE 1862 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia
Granddaughter Jane M GRIBBLE 1864 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia
Grandson William Henry GRIBBLE 1866 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 11 Mar 1946 Hall, New South Wales, Australia 80
Grandson George GRIBBLE abt 1868 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 1947 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 79
Granddaughter Mary GRIBBLE 1870 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia
Granddaughter Agnes Florence GRIBBLE 1872 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 20 Apr 1948 Canberra, ACT, Australia 76
Grandson Thomas GRIBBLE abt 1874 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 1950 Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 76

Events in Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE (1808 - 1889)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1808 Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE was born Totnes, Devon, England 80
1836 28 Married Agnes Sandford JONES Teignmouth, Devon, England 80
1837 29 Birth of son Thomas GRIBBLE West Teignmouth, Devon, England 6
1876 68 Death of wife Agnes Sandford JONES 80
1889 81 Thomas Samuel GRIBBLE died 80
Source References:
80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2195/thomas-senior-samuel-gribble.html (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Born: c. 1808; Died: 1889; Married: Agnes Sandford Jones

Thomas (senior) Samuel Gribble
Related Places
The Valley
Thomas (Tom) Gribble was a Devonshire cobbler's son, who migrated to the colony in 1857....

Thomas Gribble (senior) was a cordwainer (bootmaker) from Totnes in Devonshire. His parents were Nicholas Gribble and Mary Ann (nee Skinner). In 1836 he married Agnes Sandford Jones at Teignmouth with whom he had nine children.

His second son and namesake, Thomas 'Tom' Gribble, migrated to Australia in 1857 on assisted passage. Thomas (senior), Agnes and six of their remaining children followed the lead of Tom (junior) and migrated to Australia in 1861 themselves.

Their son had married fellow bounty migrant, Kate Warren, at Windsor in 1860 and had moved to Ginninderra, where they farmed a small selection later known as The Valley. Their intention was to remain in Ginninderra and to conduct a bootmaking business there with youngest son, John. However, business proved not to be sufficient enough in the fledgling community to induce them to stay and they decided to join their third son, William, in Sydney where he was opening up a bakery. They had left Ginninderra by 1865.

Henry Morris became the next bootmaker of Ginninderra. The first recorded bootmaker in the district was William Wyatt who resided in Ginninderra with his wife, Elizabeth, in the 1840s.

Samuel Shumack preserves the story about their decision to migrate.

In 1863 Thomas Gribble [junior] wrote home requesting that his parents come to Australia, and in less than six months the old people and their four children arrived in Sydney. Gribble Snr was a boot-maker, and soon after landing, he and his youngest son, John, arrived at his elder son's farm, where he started boot-making without delay. He did well in the locality and was a good conversationalist. About twelve months later he returned to Sydney, where he and his son William opened a bakery.

Thomas died in 1889. Agnes had predeceased him in 1876.

References
Gillespie, L.L., Ginninderra: Forerunner to Canberra, Campbell, 1992
Heffernan, K. and J. Klaver, 'A Conservation and Management Plan for the Gribbles' Homestead Ruin, "The Valley", Gungahlin, A.C.T.', report to the ACT Heritage Section of the ACT Government, Canberra, 1995.
McDonald, J., 'The Gribble Who Came to Queanbeyan', Quinbean, Vol. 9.1 (2016), pp. 10-15
McDonald, J. 2017. 'The chaff cutters. The Gribbles of Ginninderra', Canberra Historical Journal, 79 (September): 11-19
Shumack, S. An Autobiography, or, Tales and Legends of Canberra Pioneers (ed. J. E. and S. Shumack), Canberra, 1967
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2195/thomas-senior-samuel-gribble.html (Birth)
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2195/thomas-senior-samuel-gribble.html (Death)
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2195/thomas-senior-samuel-gribble.html (Marriage)

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