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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_Keeper12th March 2022

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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Gibbs Coffee and Tea from Ceylon

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

In my last post I wrote that “…the family appears to have had minimal involvement in the major theatres of British Imperial reach – North America, India and Africa …”. I was promptly pointed to The Journal of Vicary Gibbs … Continue reading →

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Gibbs in Africa

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 24th November 2020 by GFT_Keeper23rd December 2020

Much has been written about the extensive involvement of the Gibbs family in Southern Europe, Latin America and Australia, but the family appears to have had minimal involvement in the major theatres of British Imperial reach – North America, India … Continue reading →

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Clifton Hampden and a Gibbs Grave Story

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 23rd October 2020 by GFT_Keeper26th November 2020

The church of St Michael and All Angels at Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire exists in its present form because of the Gibbs family – and it is an architectural gem.  Pevsner talks of its “theatrical quality” standing on its cliff overlooking the … Continue reading →

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Poem for a Tyntesfield Oak Tree

Gibbs Family Tree Posted on 28th August 2020 by GFT_Keeper2nd January 2021

Cousin Sarah came across this poem ‘Inscription for an Oak Tree’ recently while sorting through books and papers cleared from her father Denis Gibbs’ study. The poem was written by Sir John Coleridge as an inscription for an Oak Tree … Continue reading →

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