Has anyone heard of this name? The original is Gambrelle/Gambrel, who fled from France (don't know where from), and probably went to Holland, and from there to USA. The name shows up in the 1790 census for Edgefield County, SC. Because they had lived in Holland, perhaps more than a generation, their name would have been pronounced as beginning with an "H", but it was spelled with a "G". When the census was taken in SC, the census taker would have heard "Hambrel" and would have written it down that way. Muriel