John Gamble
ID # 2671, (1824-1903)
| Birth | John Gamble was born on 15 May 1824 at Ireland. |
| Marriage | He married Harriet Able, daughter of David Able and Mary Dineen. |
| Death | He died on 18 September 1903 at Beverly Township at age 79. |
| Burial | He was buried at Troy Cemetery. |
| Note | Death reg. 028815-03 Beverly, Wentworth Co. John Gamble died September 18, 1903, age 79. Born Ireland. Farmer. John's residence is shown as lot 6 on the 2nd concession of Beverly. According to the 1901 census, John Gamble came to Canada in 1842. This census shows John's birth date as May 15, 1828. A birth year of 1824 in this tree is based on his death registration as well as a transcription of his gravestone. The will of Charles Person of Westminster Township, probated in Middlesex County in 1856, names John Gamble of Beverly as one of the four executors for Charles' estate. Mary Gamble, so shown in the 1861 census in Beverly, we now know to be Mary Malinda Person, daughter of Charles Person and Arabella Morrison. Charles and Arabella were in Hamilton at the time of the 1851 census, but in 1852 Charles purchased land in Westminster Township and, apparently, moved the family there. Perhaps Arabella died there, but she is buried with Charles in Hamilton Cemetery. Charles married a second time to Eliza Cassaday and they had a child Rowena who survived and spent her early years in West Flamboro with the family of Jonathan Bowman, one of the executors of Charles' will. Mary Malinda Person married John Main and they went to Michigan. John Gamble remembered her in his will. She and John Main named a son John Gamble Main. Mary appears elsewhere in this tree. The three children with John and Harriet in the 1871 census, Elizabeth, John and Rosetta, are now known to be siblings and to have the birth name of Badger. They were the birth children of Thomas Badger and Margaret Pearce. Margaret died in 1865. Thomas placed the children (there were other siblings) in foster care. He eventually remarried and lived out his days in Merritton. Other Badger children survived and kept their birth names. Something of the Badger family story is told on page 19 of the booklet A History of the People of Troy, 1947. Elizabeth Badger Gamble married Oliver Neff and they went to Saskatchewan. John Badger Gamble eventually went to Niagara Falls, New York, but was returned for burial in Troy Cemetery with his first wife, Ella Dargie. All his life, he went by the name Gamble. Rosetta and her husband William Sager saw to Harriet Gamble in her later years and she left them her estate in her will. Rosetta is buried in Troy Cemetery with the name Gamble. Daniel Badger, a natural brother, is also buried in Troy Cemetery. John Gamble's will is to be found on microfilm MS887 reel 1914, #5711. |
| Last Edited | 6 May 2025 |