Welcome to the Thomas Knowlton Gibson Family Tree.
Our branch of the Gibson and Knowlton families is directly descended from many
well known early American colonial families and European Nobility and Royalty.

   Chris and Jon explore the St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery
in Norristown, PA, where many of our ancestors are buried.
The Gibson Family Coat Of ArmsThe final resting place of the Rev. Isaac Gibson. Our family has been collecting ancestral information for hundreds of years with many books and papers available.   The family history is certainly  noteworthy with a few emotional and tragic events, and some ancestors exhibiting a significant influence on the founding of our country and the western world.
The Gibson Coat of Arms
and Family Crest
 
The Shield: Blue with three storks rising.
The Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, a lion's gamb grasping a club.
The motto: "Recte et fideliter" Translated: Just and faithful.



With more than 100,000 individual entries from more than 38,000 families, and thousands of royal ancestors with thousands of citations, this is one of the largest individual family trees on the World Wide Web.  The list was gathered from Ancestry Family Trees, the LDS web sites and many printed sources.  Before the Internet, this information would have taken a lifetime of research and certainly contain far more errors than will be found here. You will need a free or paid account to view the complete family tree found on Ancestry.com.

Royal ancestry will almost certainly appear in European family trees that extent before the year 1500 even if just Charlemagne and Charles Martel.  As royal and other noble families of means were the only ones who kept ancestral records, family lines more than 500 years old will certainly descend from royalty with the other lines simply ending with the last know ancestor like Avitochol, GGF of Attila the Hun.

As the index is large, I recommend keeping this page in a seperate window or tab to search
through the names so your browser won't have to reload ever time you return to the list.
      The purpose of these pages is to identify some of our notable ancestors, through lines that are both historical, mythological and legendary, but not improbable (i.e. our lines to the Royal Houses of Judah, Ptolemy and Constantine the Great). The word mythological does not mean false but rather "to designate the narrative component". Our family has thousands of legendary lines tracing back to Adam, some more probable than others, though I am certain that we trace back somehow to Adam, so it doesn't matter whether through these lines or some other.  
     
      I was recently contacted by a "professional genealogist" who wanted to point out that my legendary lines of descent were, in fact, legendary and that some people might take them as wholly factual (which is why I used the word "legendary" in the first place). Readers are free to believe them or not.  Legendary implies that they cannot be proved, but are based on medieval or mythological sources.  I would refer such skeptical readers of these pages to the Wikipedia article on Descents from Antiquity, which they may find enlightening.  Descent from medieval and ancient royal families is very possible and probable with almost all colonial families of European descent.  Please do not contact me if you intend to criticize or refute my pages.  There is no point as I am not trying to prove anything.  Our ancestors are listed here to be shared, enjoyed and appreciated by those reading these pages.  I have found more than 2000 royal or noble ancestor with more than 120 different lines to Charlemagne, "the father of Europe and the western world."