The History of the Gamel Family of Knighton-in-Hales, 1200-2025

Including Their Variously Spelled Descendants: Gamble, Gamull, Gambell, Gamwell, Gamuell of Shropshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Montgomeryshire

This work invites readers to journey to the past and explore an extraordinary history of an ordinary family. It opens with a discussion of DNA research, anthropology, and archaeology; followed by the Dark Ages and the Vikings; Gamels mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 in the area around Knighton; early Gamels of Shrewsbury; Gamels of Buerton, Gamulls of Chester starting with Edmund Gamull [1537–1616]; Gamulls/Gambles who remained in and around Buerton, as well as in Stafforshire and Shropshire, and also in London; William Gamble [1755–1812] and his descendants through nine generations to the present day; a discussion and illustrations of the armorial bearings of the Gamull/ Gamble Family from 1418 to the present, along with the coats of arms of some of those families with whom they intermarried; unrelated - or only remotely, or possibly, related - families surnamed Gamble including James Gamble, the co-founder of the Proctor and Gamble Company, and Lt. Col. John M. Gamble USMC; and genealogies of Gamble Families of Shropshire that are highly likely to be descendants of Gamel of Knighton.

Chapters include: Prehistory and Haplogroup I; I2-L38 and The Age of the Vikings; Gamels of Knighton; Gamels of Shrewsbury; Gamulls of Buerton; Gamulls of Chester; Gamulls of Staffordshire and Beyond; Descendants of William Gamble Burgess of Shrewsbury [1755–1812]; A Gamble Armorial; Other Gamble Families; A Gamble Memorial; Valediction; Appendix A (Other Shropshire Gamble Families Probably Descended from Gamel); Bibliography, Resources, and References; General Index; and Index of Gamall/Gamel/Gamull/Gamble Named Persons. A wealth of charts, illustrations, and photographs enhance the text.

Geoffrey Gamble

2026, 8.5" x 11", paper, index, 260 pp.

ISBN: 9780788459092

101-G5900