Evelina Antonia Hermenegilda Gibbs

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• Baptism: 23 Mar 1871, Distrito Federal, Mexico
• Residence: 1901, Barnstaple, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Barnstaple, Devon; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

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Baptised 23 March 1871 in the Cathedral at Mexico City.

Evelina married Dr. John Robinson Harper, CBE, TD, JP on 10 Jun 1897 in Sonning, Berkshire. John (son of Joseph Harper and Augusta Mary Robinson) was born on 7 Nov 1867 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 30 Apr 1947 in Pilton Cottage, Barnstaple, Devon; was buried in 1947 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Olive Mary Harper, JP was born on 19 Mar 1899 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 20 Mar 1999 in Barnstaple, Devon.
2. Dr. Richard Michael Joseph Harper, MA, DM was born on 29 Sep 1903 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 16 Sep 1975 in Barnstaple, Devon.

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• Occupation: Merchant
• Baptism: 22 Dec 1840, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset
• Residence: 1861, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1881, Barnstaple, Devon; Son in Law
• Death: 3 Mar 1886, London

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Baptised 22 December 1840 at Wraxall. Educated at Eton College (King's scholar) 1855-58, matric. at Oxford (Queen's College), entered the Middle Temple 1862. Buried 27 March 1886 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard on gravestone of Joseph Gibbs (his father). Will proved 17 May 1886.

At Eton he was in the School cricket XI, 1858, and football "Wall" XI, 1857. He worked for a year on the Devon, and Somerset Railway at Barnstaple, next in Paris and Spain; all in connection with Antony Gibbs and Sons. He was Corresponding Director in Mexico of the Mexican Railway Co. Ltd. 1868-74; on the London Board 1874 till death. He was sometime a director of the Union Bank of London, of the Union Bank of Spain, and of the Mexican Gas Works, and in partnership in the City of London with W. Bailey Hawkins, metalbroker, of Staginhoe Park, Herts.

Birth:
Belmont

Died:
24 Lexham Gardens

Joseph married Mary Rider Budd on 13 Jun 1867 in Barnstaple, Devon. Mary (daughter of Richard Budd and Harriet Cotton Rider) was born on 11 Feb 1848 in Barnstaple, Devon; died on 11 Jan 1924 in Dorchester, Dorset; was buried in Jan 1924 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Barnstaple, Devon
• Baptism: 4 Jul 1848, Barnstaple, Devon; Holy Trinity
• Residence: 1851, Barnstaple, Devon
• Residence: 1861, Barnstaple, Devon
• Residence: 1871, Melcombe Regis, Dorset
• Residence: 1881, Kensington, London
• Residence: 1891, Brighton, Sussex; Boarder
• Residence: 1901, Hagley, Worcestershire; Sister-in-law
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Devon; Boarder

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Youngest daughter of Richard Budd of Barnstaple, Devon, MD, by Harriet, daughter of Rev. Ralph Carr Rider, Rector of Clannaborough, nr. Crediton, Devon. Baptised 4 July 1848 at Holy Trinity there. Buried at Clifton Hampden, Memorial Inscription in churchyard on the gravestone of Joseph Gibs. Administration London 14 May 1924.

A portrait of her father last in possession of Capt. J. R. Manderson of Pilton, nr. Barnstaple.

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• 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

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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]

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

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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.

Richard married Harriet Cotton Rider in 1842 in Bath, Somerset. Harriet was born on 9 Jul 1822 in Clannaborough, Devon; died on 10 Mar 1877 in Barnstaple, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.

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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]

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• 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]