Lady Mabel Beatrice Gibbs

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Paddington, London; St John's
• Residence: 1871, Edgware, Middlesex; Age: 6; Relationship: Daughter
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Notes:

Photo of Mabel at Cevedon Court with the Elton family, see marriage scrapbook of Sir Edmund Harry Elton.
Photo of Mabel with Sir Charles & Laura with Gibbs family, see marriage scrapbook of George Louis M. Gibbs.

1891 CENSUS - Aged 26. Living with Charles, and children Laura, aged 1, and Matthew aged 1 month.
1901 CENSUS - Aged 36. Living with husband and family.
1911 CENSUS - Living at 79 Cornwall Gardens, Kensington. Aged 46. Family listed, husband Charles, aged 54; daughter Laura, aged 21: son Matthew aged 20: and son Edmund aged 10.

Died at 10 Sheen Gate-gardens, East Sheen, Surrey on 11 March 1944.

Probate read 24 August 1944 at Llandudno "the said Sir Charles F-B knight and Matthew F-B OBE company director . Effects £2668 8s 4d."

Birth:
14 Devonshire Terrace

Mabel married Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale, Knight, FRGS of Newland on 5 Sep 1888 in Bramley, Surrey. Charles (son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale and Sarah Ann Lloyd) was born on 1 Mar 1857 in Victoria Street, Westminster, London; died on 20 Sep 1944 in Gorse Corner, Townsend Drive, St.Albans, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Laura Fortescue-Brickdale was born in 1889 in Upper Norwood, Surrey; died on 27 Feb 1935 in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
2. Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale, Knt. OBE was born on 8 Nov 1890 in The Dower House, Newland, Gloucestershire; died on 22 Oct 1969 in Manor Fields, Putney, London.
3. Edmund Arthur Fortescue-Brickdale was born on 22 Jan 1901 in Kensington, London; died on 4 Jul 1977 in Wandsworth, London.

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Baptism: 12 Sep 1801, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1861, Chelsea, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

He was in the employ of Antony Gibbs & Sons 1818-24 (in London 1818-21, Cadiz 1818-2, Gibraltar 1822-3, again in London 1823-4). He was ordained Deacon in 1828, Priest by the Bishop of Chester 8 Aug. 1829. Curate of Howarden, co. Flint, 1828-30, Perpectual Curate of Clifton Hampden, co. Oxon 1830-64 in the new parsonage given by his cousin Anne Noyes (patron of the living) which, from 1905, was again the parsonage, and from c. 1846 in the new parsonage built by his sister-in-law Caroline Gibbs (now the Manor House), Devisee of Belmont, Wraxall, under the will of his cousin and brother-in-law George who died 1863. For his life up to 1823 and a few later details see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Portraits: miniature of him by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932; a portrait of him with his wife and sister Joanna was known to be in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden until her death in 1955, but whereabouts unknown in 1980; watercolour in middle age in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley in 1980).



Educated at Mr. Phillip's School, Turnham Green. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1828 with a B.A. He was the Curate in 1830 at Clifton Hampden, Berkshire.
1851 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 49, Emily 47,
1861 CENSUS - Visiting relations, ( George & Harriett Gibbs) at "Belmount House" Wraxall, Somerset.
Joseph 59, Emily 57, Harriett T. 17, Joseph H. 20, George H. 18, & Stanley R. 14.

Occ. Deacon, Priest and then Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden until death.

Probate - 5 May 1864. Left under £20,000.

Joseph married Emily Vaughan on 14 Sep 1831 in Llangattock, Breconshire, Wales. Emily (daughter of Rev. Charles Vaughan and Emilia Monck) was born on 14 Aug 1803 in Farnborough, Berkshire; died on 7 Sep 1869 in Kensington, London; was buried on 10 Sep 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Oct 1803, Farnborough, Berkshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor

Notes:

Her father, rector of Crickhowell, co. Brecon, was descended from the Vaughans of Tretower, whose full pedigree (including Sir Roger Vaughan, knighted and mortally wounded at Agincourt) is in Theophilus Jones's 'History of Brecon (1805-9, new edition 1909). Her mother's father John Monck of Bath (Burke's 'Landed Gentry' under 'Monck of Coley Park') was a descendant of William Monck (and his wife Dorothy, sister of 1st Earl of Darnley) whose ancestry is in Burke's Peerage under 'Monck' (Viscount). A miniature of her by Sir William Ross was in possession of Everilda Gibbs in 1932. Portrait Heberden, great-grand-daughter of Joseph and Emily Gibbs. This portrait was formerly in possession of Evelyn Alice Heberden.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Nov 1818, Lewins Mead, Somerset

Notes:

Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, 7th Baronet DL (19 April 1818 – 14 October 1883) was a writer and Liberal party politician.

For further details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Elton,_7th_Baronet

Arthur married Rhoda Susan Willis on 10 Jun 1841 in Clevedon, Somerset. Rhoda was born on 16 May 1809 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight; died on 1 Nov 1873 in Bournemouth; was buried on 7 Nov 1873 in All Saints, Clevedon, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Saint George Martin, Middlesex, England
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1761, Knaresborough, Yorkshire

Notes:

For the full history of her life, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (also for history and portraits of the Hucks family, from whom her son, George Henry Gibbs, derived his properties, and for references to pedigrees (which contain also references to their wills). The Hucks family became extinct in the male line at the death of her brother John in 1836. She was a beneficiary under the will of Henry Townley Ward (d. 1816) the husband of her elder sister Eleanor (d.1800). As a widow her home was with her daughter Harriett at Redland 1816-17, with her son George Henry at 2 Powis Place in London 1817-19, and again with Harriett July 1819, till her death. For note of portraits, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 434. For her descent from King Henry III see Ellacombe's 'Clyst St. George'(1864), and Burke's 'Royal Descents' (1858).

Charles married Emilia Monck on 6 May 1802 in All Saints, Laleham, Middlesex. Emilia (daughter of John Monck and Emilia Snee) was born on 24 Oct 1778 in Walcot, Berkshire; died on 20 Jul 1849 in Pontywall, Breconshire, Wales; was buried on 26 Jul 1849 in Llandavalley, nr Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet (31 October 1778 – 1 June 1853) was an English officer in the British Army and an author.

For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Abraham_Elton

Charles married Sarah Smith on 29 Feb 1804 in Bristol. Sarah (daughter of Josepth Smith and Sarah Pope) was born on 20 Nov 1782 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 14 Mar 1830 in Gloucestershire; was buried on 20 Mar 1830 in St Andrew, Clevedon, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]