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I have a more indepth research of the Gabbard name. The Gabbard name goes back to 1653 of the Battle of Gabbard Shoal. The Gabbard Shoal was where the Gabbards made their living in fishing, and farming. The Gabbards were orginally from Scotland and settled on the coast of Wales and the coastal area of Suffolk, England. Many of the Gabbard men returned to Scotland to help their orginal clan McGage fight in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 east of Inverness, Scotland. Those family leaders who did survive the battle hid in Ireland, Wales, and some in Germany and the Americas. The name was never mispelled; has and always been spelled GABBARD. I found the Gabbards and the McCage Clan in Scotland and found many paintings and sketches and came face to face with in my father's image staring back at me but it was a piece of art done in the 1500-1660. If there were Germans in the family it was the women who married those tall red and fair haired Scots men who strived to stay ahead of the British genecide of the Highlanders. These men were Free Masons and those who handed down their heritage (in secret) help create the Scottish Rites in the United States. My Great Grandfather Franklin L. Gabbard, my Grandfather Lewis H. Gabbard and Father Harlene A. Gabbard and his brothers Robert, Eugene, and Ted were all members of these institutions and kept the memories of the ancestors and made sure all of their immediate generations knew the stories and the truth of our orgin. All of us who heard the stories promised to pass on the truth and never let it die. This truth was also a cause in the division of the Gabbard Family because of fear of death. In those years from the 1700's to the late 1800's was not a good time for those men to reveal their whereabouts and their family connections to Scotland. If you read about those Battles in Scotland and the repression you will quickly understand the fear.
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