Patricia Helen Gibbs: Gibbs Family Tree

Generation: 1

1. Patricia Helen Gibbs
Patricia married Rodney Baker [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Generation: 2

2. John Francis Gibbs
John married Margaret Patricia Jackson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3.
Margaret Patricia Jackson
Children:

1. Patricia Helen Gibbs

Erika Gibbs

Generation: 3

Lt. Commander Robert Claud Gibbs was born on 17 Apr 1895 in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India (son of Robert Tyndall Gibbs and Emily Fraser Handcock); died on 10 Jun 1949 in Surrey; was buried in West Norwood, Surrey.

Notes:

Lt. Commander Royal Navy (ret.) Only child. Baptised at Waltair 6 May 1895. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1908-10 and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1910-12. Cremated at West Norwood, Surrey.

Midshipman in the Royal Navy 1913; Sub- Lieut. 1915; Lieutenant 30 April 1917; Retired 1921; obtained rank of Lieut. Commander 30 April 1926. Served throughout the Great War (on HMS's Thunderer and Empress of India at Scapa Flow, Sloop Iris at Queenstown and in submarines in the North Sea), and was awarded the 1914 Star, British War medal, and Allies (Victory) medal. In employ of Minerals Separation Co. London and of allied firms on the Continent 1921-9; in Dorr Oliver Co. Ltd., Sales Engineers, London, from 1929. He and his wife lived from 1931 at Ash Cottage, Garrard Road, Banstead. Associate Member of Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1932. During World War II 1939-45 at Admiralty Offices in Glasgow and London.

Robert married Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn on 15 Mar 1930 in Berlin, Germany. Walda (daughter of Edwin Gruhn and Henriette Rothe) was born on 27 Nov 1908 in Berlin, Germany; died in Oct 2005 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn was born on 27 Nov 1908 in Berlin, Germany (daughter of Edwin Gruhn and Henriette Rothe); died in Oct 2005 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire.

Notes:

Youngest daughter of Edwin Gruhn of Stettiner-Strasse, Berlin, brewer, by Henriette, daughter of August Rothe. Baptised 26 December 1908 at St. Lazarus, Berlin. Educated in Berlin and Desden.

Children:

Iris Walda Gibbs was born on 12 May 1932 in 19 Bentinck St., St. Marylebone; died on 9 Jun 1932 in The Infants Hospital, Vincent Square, London SW1.
Terence Claud Gibbs was born on 9 Mar 1934 in Banstead, Surrey; died on 25 Jan 2015 in Queensland, Australia.
2. John Francis Gibbs
Jacqueline Sylvia Gibbs was born on 19 Apr 1938 in Banstead, Surrey; died on 14 Apr 1997 in Sutton, Surrey.
Iris Emily Claudette Gibbs was born on 30 Oct 1939 in Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales; died on 15 May 1957 in Chertsey, Surrey.

Generation: 4

Robert Tyndall Gibbs was born on 20 May 1865 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire (son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright); died on 4 Oct 1942 in Worcester, Worcestershire; was buried in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Relation to Head of House: Son
Residence: 1930, Kensington, London

Notes:

2nd son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs. Baptised 13 June 1865 in the church at Clifton Hampden. Educated at Winchester College and at a Tutor's in Cornwall 1979-83, and at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, 1883-6. Buried at Leamington Spa.

In the Indian Telegraph Service (in Burmah 1886-7 in India 1888-1914); a director thereof 1910-14. Retired to England 1914. Sometime Captain in Madras Volunteer Guards. In the Great War was in London attached to the Intelligence Staff of War Office 1915-19 as a Censor of Telegraphs with the rank of temp. Lieut. May 1915, temp. Capt. Ap. 1919. Assistant Treasurer and lay Canon of Southwark Cathedral 1925-30. Lived from 1925 at 7 Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington.

Pastel portrait by Havell.

Birth:
The Parsonage

Robert married Emily Fraser Handcock on 3 Apr 1893 in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India. Emily (daughter of Rev. Richard George Hancock and Mary Swinhoe) was born on 31 Jul 1864 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; died on 24 May 1947 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire; was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily Fraser Handcock was born on 31 Jul 1864 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (daughter of Rev. Richard George Hancock and Mary Swinhoe); died on 24 May 1947 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire; was buried in Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Notes:

2nd daughter of Rev. Richard George Hancock (died 1913), rector of Ditteridge, nr. Bath, 1894-1911, for whose descent from Sr William Handcock, Kent (died 1701) see Caslemaine in 'Burke's Peerage', 1915); by Mary (died 1890), 2nd daughter of General Samuel Swinhoe (died 1866) of the East India Co., Calcutta and of Eslington House, Cheltenham by Emily Gillanders. Died 24 May 1947 and was buried at Bristol.

Birth:
Eslington House

Children:

4. Lt. Commander Robert Claud Gibbs was born on 17 Apr 1895 in Waltair, Andhra Pradesh, India; died on 10 Jun 1949 in Surrey; was buried in West Norwood, Surrey.

10.
Edwin Gruhn died before 1963.
Other Events and Attributes:
Residence: Berlin, Germany

Edwin married Henriette Rothe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11.
Henriette Rothe
Children:

5. Walda Elfriede E. Gruhn was born on 27 Nov 1908 in Berlin, Germany; died in Oct 2005 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire.