Timothy B. Gilbert of Norfolk Co., Virginia

[Mixed Haplotypes]

Timothy B(urgess?) Gilbert was born about 1834 in Virginia or North Carolina (he lived in the swampy region where the boundaries of Norfolk Co., Virginia, Camden Co., North Carolina, and Currituck Co., North Carolina intersect). He married Mariah Walker in 1858 in Currituck Co., North Carolina, but has not been found in any record before that date. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War from Virginia. He is listed in the 1860-80 censuses in Norfolk Co., but has not been found in 1850. According to family tradition, Timothy’s original surname was Burgess. He likely had an older brother, George W(ashington?) Gilbert, born about 1832, who is listed with him in the 1860 census (but who has also not been found in 1850), and who later lived in Norfolk City, Norfolk Co., VA, dying there after 1900. Timothy Gilbert died in Norfolk Co. between 1880 and 1900, having had six sons:

1. John Young Gilbert (1858-1921) of Norfolk Co., VA
2. Virginius W. Gilbert (1861-1929) of Norfolk Co., VA
3. (John) Timothy [Gilbert] Burgess (1872-1960) of Baltimore Co., MD; he used the surname Gilbert in early life, but changed his name to Burgess about 1912, when he moved from South Carolina to Maryland
4. Charles Gilbert (1875?-1941) of Norfolk Co., VA
5. (George) Pinckney “Moody” Gilbert (1876-1941) of Norfolk Co., VA
6. William Gilbert (1883-1954) of Norfolk Co., VA

John Young Gilbert is the ancestor of [__] Gilbert; John Timothy Burgess is the ancestor of S. E. Burgess.

Test results received from two representatives of this line do not match either each other, showing a break in the genetic chain of descent; they also do not match the numbers of any other Burgess Project family. The original genome of this family is unknown.