Topics

• About the Pimble One-Name Study
• Variants
• Origin of the surname
• Historical occurrences
• Data
• DNA project
• Links
• Contact Details

About the Pimble One-Name Study

I began my research into the name through the study of my own family history. My maternal grandmother was Alice Mary PIMBLE. The surname interested me and so I started out looking at phone books to find there were few of them in the UK.

I registered the name with the Guild in 1991 and have been accumulating data ever since.

Variants

The variants that I research are: PIMBLE and PYMBLE

The majority of living PIMBLE / PYMBLE can trace their ancestry back to one of four people. Robert, John, George or Richard.

Origin of the surname

The name(s) are most frequently found in the Counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the UK, though there are early references in other southern counties of England.

Historical occurrences

I will build on this section later

• Robert PYMBLE, after which a suburb of Sydney, Australia is named, began his life in Herefordshire before emigrating to Australia in 1821 together with his family. It is from Robert that the Australian contingent of PYMBLE originate.
• Reginald PIMBLE born 1888 in Ross-on-Wye. Served with the 1st Gloucestershire Regiment in WW1 and suffered two gunshot wounds at Ypres

Data

I have put together a database using RootsMagic with supporting source information.

I am very happy to exchange information with anyone who has an interest in the name, please feel free to contact me.

Many thanks to those who have contributed to our shared knowledge of the name.

DNA project

Project Background:

People with this uncommon surname are found today in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States. Those in the UK and Australia can trace their descent from a handful of individuals from Gloucestershire and Herefordshire who lived in the 1600s an.d 1700s. Those in the US seem to be concentrated around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey with an African-American branch from South Carolina.

The first two DNA results have been processed and do not match. Two others are in progress. Visit

http://www.familytreedna.com/(1do44rioigoz1x551ignq445)/public/Pimble_Pymble/index.aspx

Links

Please visit my website at http://www.pgvhosting.com/geraldcooke/ or my webblog @ http://pimble-one-name-study.blogspot.com/

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Gerald A Cooke
North Cottage,
Monmouth Road,
Longhope,
Gloucestershire
GL17 0QF
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

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