Gillian Iris Gordon Young

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• Baptism: 28 Dec 1895, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Baptised 28 December 1895 at Meerut. Educated at Cheltenham College, 1909-13 and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1917 (prize Cadet).

He played both for Cheltenham and Sandhurst at cricket and hockey. 2nd Lieut. Indian Army 5th August 1914, attached to 4th Dublin Fusiliers: temp. Lieut. December 1914, he went to the Great War in France with the Royal Irish Regt.: invalided in 1915 he rejoined the Indian Army Dec. 1915 as Lieut. 6th Royal Jat Light Infantry (now 1st Bn. 9th Jat Regt.): Capt. 1918: served in Mesopotamia 1918 and was invalided with typhoid fever: A.D.C. to Major General Sir Arthur Scott commanding Lucknow Division 1919: rejoined 6th Jat. L.I. on North West Frontier 1919 and was adjutant to the Regiment and on active service in Waziristan 1921-23: retired from Indian Army May 1923. Held the 1914-15 Star, British war medal and Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War and the Indian Frontier medal with clasp.

From 1926 Advertisement Manager of the Illustrated London News.

He and his wife were living in 1932 at Dover Cottage, Hightown Rd., Roehampton. 1 daughter: Gillian Iris, b. 19 Dec. 1927.

Gerald married Gwyndoline Sydney Shoosmith on 26 Jun 1926 in Sutton, Surrey, and was divorced in 1936. Gwyndoline (daughter of Harry Shoosmith and Lilian Collison Newton) was born on 11 Jun 1903 in Abbey Wood, Kent; died in Jan 1999 in Yeovil, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 19 Jul 1903, Christ Church, Erith, Kent

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Daughter of H. Shoesmith, civil engineer, by Lilian Constance, daughter of George B. Newton. Divorced 1936.

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• Baptism: 10 Jan 1860, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Residence: 1871, London; Census probably wrongly identifies CFGY as son of Crawford. He must have been a visitor in 1871
• Military Service: Between 1877 and 1879, South Africa
• Residence: 1912, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920

Notes:

His wife's 2nd cousin, he being great-nephew of her grandmother, Lady Elton (born Willis). Son of Colonel Gordon Young (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, 287, n.). Baptised 10 January 1860 at Rawal Pindi. Educated at Bradfield College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

2nd Lieut. 99th Foot Regt. May 1878; Lieut. The Wilts. Regt. (into which the 99th was transferred) Jan. 1880. Served in South Africa 1878-79 (medal & clasp in Zulu war): Joined Indian Army (6th Bengal Light Infantry) 1880; Capt. May 1889; served in China 1900 (medal); Major May 1898; Lieut.-Col. May 1904; Colonel May 1907; Major General September 1912 and commanded Jhansi, Peshawar Infantry and Rangoon Brigades. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War medal, Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War.

Retired from Indian Army 1919. He and his wife lived from 1919 at Carringtons, Milford-on-Sea, Hants.

Birth:
Information from his baptism record. Rawalpindi was part of India at that time, I think Father George Gordon Young was Assistant Commissioner of that "place" was it Rawalpindi or Punjab?

Charles married Agnes Hilda Gibbs on 20 Sep 1892 in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London. Agnes (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 4 Sep 1865 in Paddington, London; died on 1 Mar 1934 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 12 Oct 1865, East Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Slough, Buckinghamshire
• Death: 23 Oct 1934, Hampshire

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Baptised 4 October 1865 at East Clevedon, Somerset.

Birth:
10 Sussex Square

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• Residence: 1871, St Mary Newington, London
• Residence: 1881, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Yorkshire
• Residence: 1901, Erith, Kent

Harry married Lilian Collison Newton in Jul 1899 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire. Lilian was born in Mar 1871 in Hull, Yorkshire; died on 5 Feb 1918 in Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1881, Sculcoates, Yorkshire
• Residence: 1891, Cottingham, Yorkshire
• Residence: 1901, Erith, Kent

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• Baptism: 10 Feb 1837, Walcot, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Fleet, Hampshire

George married Charlotte Sophia Smith on 5 Oct 1858 in Murree, Bengal, India. Charlotte (daughter of Matthew Smith and Isabella Fraser Morris Hook) was born on 26 Aug 1840 in Agra, Bengal, India; died on 20 Nov 1926 in Lymington, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 13 Sep 1840, Agra, Bengal, India

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• Occupation: Merchant S America
• Baptism: 24 May 1838, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wiltshire
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 32; Relationship: Head
• Residence: 1881, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head

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Baptised there 24 May 1838. Educated at Marlborough College 1947-53. Died at his residence Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts 26 November and was buried 1 December 1881 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and in Aldenham Church and Memorial Screen in Elstree Chapel. Will proved 1882.

He inherited Belmont, Wraxall, on his father's death in 1865 (subject to his mother's life interest) and sold it in 1870 to his uncle William Gibbs of the adjoining Tyntesfield. Entered Antony Gibbs & Sons 1855 (was in London 1855-59; in William Gibbs & Co., Peru & Chile, 1859-62; in London, as a manager of A. Gibbs & Sons 1863, as a partner 1865-81). Visited New York 1863, Spain and Portugal 1864, Mexico 1869 all on business of the firm. A director of the London Assurance Co. 1865 (deputy Governor 1878, sub-Governor Dec. 1878-81).

A benefactor to Elstree church. Patron of the living of Hutton, Somerset (see VI, n33). Resided at 14 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington, 1864-67; Nutwood, Bickley, Kent, 1867-70; Deacon's Hill, Elstree, Herts., 1870-81; 46 Grosvenor Street, Westminster, 1881. See book In Memoriam mentioned below under entry for his wife Laura Beatrice Hallam and Obituary notice in The Guardian of Dec. 1881.

Portraits (head) in possession of his daughter Beatrice Rhoda Gibbs; 2 posthumous portraits by Hanson Walker (one last in possession of Antony Gibbs & Sons, the other in that of his grandson Lt.-col George Arthur Gibbs; watercolour thought to be of G. L. M. Gibbs last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley).



1851 CENSUS - Aged 12, at Marlborough College.
1871 CENSUS - Aged 32, living at Deacon's Hill, Edgware.Occ. Merchant. Children, 6 listed, no wife.
1881 CENSUS - Aged 42 , living at 46 Lower Grosvenor St. Occ. Merchant, S. America.
Laura, aged 38, Lillian, aged 15, & Mabel , aged16. Also present, Edmund Elton, 54,
(brother in law), Justice of the Peace - Somerset, and wife Mary, 56.
PROBATE - 1 March 1882, personal estate of £127,333 19s 11d.

( Refer to National Trust guide book for Tyntesfield for family tree.)

Died:
Deacon's Hill

George married Laura Beatrice Elton on 5 Jan 1864 in East Clevedon, Somerset. Laura (daughter of Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet and Rhoda Susan Willis) was born on 29 Mar 1842 in Rome, Italy; died on 30 Aug 1911 in Bourton, Dorset; was buried on 4 Sep 1911 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 26 Apr 1842, Rome, Italy; British Chaplaincy
• Residence: 1851, Clevedon, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Tormoham, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, St Margaret and St John, London

Notes:

1st daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th Baronet), died 1883) of Clevedon Court, Somerset, by his 1st wife Rhoda Susan (died 1873), who was daughter of James Willis of Atherfield and Freshwater House, Isle of Wight, and widow of Captain James C. Baird. Was buried 4 September 1911 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there. Will proved 9 October 1911.

After her husband died she resided first at Queen's Gate Gardens, Kensington, next at Gosden House, Bramley, Surrey 1883-90; 29 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, 1890-7; Ablington Manor, Glos. 1891-1901; 56 Ennismore Gardens, Westminster, 1899-1911.



( Refer to National Trust guide book to Clevedon Court for family tree.)

1851 CENSUS - Aged 9, living with parents and grandfather.
Also, 2 stepsisters (children of her mother's first marriage.)


Died:
Chaffeymoor Grange

Matthew married Elizabeth Taite. Elizabeth was born in 1829 in Bermondsey, Surrey; died on 9 Nov 1899 in Lewisham, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]