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Edwardian Christmas at Tyntesfield

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 1st December 2021 by GFT_Keeper1st December 2021

Tyntesfield has a long standing reputation of celebrating the Christmas season. Since the National Trust acquired the estate they have continued this tradition and Tyntesfield will be filled with local handmade decorations from 2nd December to 2nd January. “…The house … Continue reading →

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In the Genes – what can your DNA reveal?

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 6th November 2021 by GFT_Keeper6th November 2021

Our understanding of DNA has come an incredibly long way since The Human Genome Project first announced the complete mapping of human DNA in 2003, with about 3.1 billion pairs identified. The project took 13 years and masses of computing … Continue reading →

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Antony Gibbs beginnings at Exwick’s Woollen Mill

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 6th October 2021 by GFT_Keeper6th October 2021

The painting of Antony Gibbs, a copy of which was fixed in the panel of the Court of the London Royal Exchange in 1927 in recognition of the firms banking prowess, has a background landscape view of the city of … Continue reading →

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Henry Martin Gibbs – Letters home from the Peruvian Sierra

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 1st September 2021 by GFT_Keeper1st September 2021

An expat recently went on a hunt in the Peruvian Andes for clues about a couple of Victorian Englishmen who went to the area in the 1870s, and were decent enough to write home about it – more than 80 … Continue reading →

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Gibbs Bright & Co. in Australia

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 4th August 2021 by GFT_Keeper4th August 2021

Clive Pearson from South Australia contacted me recently regarding the website gibbsbrightclub.org that he had established some years ago in order to organise the exchange of information and annual reunions for ex-employees. He was the South Australian Branch Manager for … Continue reading →

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Henry Hucks’ fortuitous inheritances and interesting connections

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 5th July 2021 by GFT_Keeper7th March 2023

How did Henry Hucks Gibbs (HHG), the 1st Baron Aldenham, come to inherit iconic family estates, including Aldenham House and Clifton Hampden, from a distant 3rd cousin spinster, which had passed down through the Hucks, Noyes, Coghill and Sutton families? … Continue reading →

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Unearthing Italian Connections

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 19th May 2021 by GFT_Keeper15th July 2021

One of the great consequences of this website being well established and indexed on the internet is that it provides an easy access for people around the world who have an interest in connecting with the Gibbs family. In recent … Continue reading →

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Multiple Crawley-Boevey and Gibbs Connections

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 18th April 2021 by GFT_Keeper18th April 2021

The recent death of Sir Thomas Michael Blake Crawley-Boevey, 8th Baronet, seems like an opportune moment to reflect on the multiple connections between the Crawley and Gibbs families, with 6 marriages between the families from 1784 to 1941. David Hogg … Continue reading →

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Dunkirk and family members lost in WWII

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 19th March 2021 by GFT_Keeper19th March 2021

The recent discovery of Lieutenant Piers Edgcumbe’s final resting place is a reminder of how many families were devastated by losses in past wars. The following is an article in The Times on 27th February: Lost Dunkirk hero’s grave found … Continue reading →

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Abraham Gibbs, Admiral Nelson and smallpox vaccine

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 14th February 2021 by GFT_Keeper14th February 2021

The Guardian newspaper has a very topical Valentines Day love story “Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl ‘new’ smallpox vaccine“. It recounts that the “chance discovery” of a 220-year-old love letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma … Continue reading →

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