Gibbs Family Tree
Blanche Alice Illingworth
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2. Dr. Martin Robert Illingworth Martin married Cecily Sheila Gibbs [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Cecily Sheila Gibbs Children:
Generation: 3
6. Beresford Norman Gibbs, FRICS, FLAS was born on 27 Feb 1925 in London (son of Rev. John Stanley Gibbs, MC and Mary Rosamond McCorquodale); died on 24 May 2016 in Oaksey, Wiltshire. Other Events and Attributes:
- Baptism: 19 Apr 1925, Badmington, Gloucestershire
Notes:
Baptised 19 April 1925 at Badminton, co. Glos. Educated at Eton and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
At Eton won quarter mile race 1943; served in Royal Horse Guards (the Blues) 1943-47; won Polar Bear Division quarter mile race 1946.
Fellow of the Chartered Land Agent's Society and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 1958; assistant to G. C. Laws at Westcote Barton, Oxfordshire, 1952-58; practising as Land Agent in general practice since from his house, Flintham House, Oaksey, Malmesbury, Wilts., his residence since 1957.
Portrait: Oil by Hon. Jeremy Cubitt (1942) last in his possession.
Died 24 May 2016.Beresford married Mary Jane Thatcher [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Mary Jane Thatcher Children:
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12. Rev. John Stanley Gibbs, MC was born on 21 Nov 1879 in Abingdon, Berkshire (son of Rev. William Cobham Gibbs and Annie Katharina Downall); died on 30 Jan 1952 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; was buried on 2 Feb 1952 in Didmarton, Gloucestershire. Other Events and Attributes:
- Baptism: 14 Dec 1879, Abingdon, Berkshire; St Helen's
- Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son
- Residence: 1901, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire; Age: 21; Relation to Head of House: Visitor
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Baptised 14 December 1879 at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Educated at Haileybury College, 1893-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College) 1898, BA 1904, MA 1908. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1904. Buried at Didmarton 2 February 1952. Memorial Tablet in St. John Baptist's Church, Shipton Moyne, nr. Tetbury.
At Haileybury he won mile and half mile races 2 years; at Keble College the half and quarter mile 3 years. President of Keble Coll. Athletic Club 1901. At Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 1902. Travelled round the world with a pupil 1903. Deacon 1904; Priest 1905. Curate of St. Pancras in the Borough of that name 1904-8; member of the Bush Brotherhood of Charleville, Queensland, 1908-11; Vicar of St. Frideswide's, Poplar, and Head of the Christ Church (Oxford) Mission there 1911-13; Vicar of Christ Church Telford Road, Kensington, 1913-19; Vicar of Badminton, co. Glos. from 1919.
Chaplain to the North Somerset Yeomanry 1911-30. In the Great War he was chaplain to the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux January-April 1915; to the 8th Cavalry Brigade (Brit. Exp. Force) September 1915-18; to the Garrison and Hospitals at Exeter February-July 1918; to the 3rd Cavalry Division (B.E.F.) 1918-19. Mentioned in despatches 1917; Military Cross 1918. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal of the Great War.
Rector of Shipton Moyne 1937-50. Rural Dean of Tetbury, Glos. Hon. Canon of Gloucester. Special Constable (Head) in 2nd World War. Chairman of Tetbury Grammar School.
Portrait: Pastel by W. E. Miller last in possession of his daughter Sheila (Countess of Morton).
Birth:
VicarageJohn married Mary Rosamond McCorquodale on 24 Apr 1924 in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Mary (daughter of Norman McCorquodale, OBE, JP and Constance Helena Burton) was born on 19 Oct 1897 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 17 Feb 1966 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried on 22 Feb 1966 in Didmarton, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Mary Rosamond McCorquodale was born on 19 Oct 1897 in St George Hanover Square, London (daughter of Norman McCorquodale, OBE, JP and Constance Helena Burton); died on 17 Feb 1966 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried on 22 Feb 1966 in Didmarton, Gloucestershire. Notes:
1st daughter of Norman McCorquodale of Winslow Hall, co. Bucks. (for whose lineage see McCorquodale of Dulchroy in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'), by Constance, 3rd daughter of Edmund C. Burton of The Lodge, Daventry. Died 17 February 1966 in Cirencester Hospital. Buried Didmarton, 22 February 1966.
Died:
Cirencester HospitalChildren:
- 6. Beresford Norman Gibbs, FRICS, FLAS was born on 27 Feb 1925 in London; died on 24 May 2016 in Oaksey, Wiltshire.
- Mary Sheila Gibbs, Countess of Morton was born on 7 Mar 1927 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; died on 1 May 2016.
14. William Arthur Norman Thatcher was born on 27 Oct 1896 in Back Lane, Midsomer Norton, Somerset (son of William James Thatcher and Olive Sparshatt); died on 4 Sep 1965 in Oxford. William married Mary Christabel Hacon on 1 May 1929 in The Parish Church, Over Worton, Oxfordshire. Mary (daughter of Harold Edward Hacon and Ellen Christobel Griffith) was born on 13 Sep 1900 in Eastbourne, Sussex; died on 29 May 1993 in The Grove, Over Worton, Middle Barton, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Mary Christabel Hacon was born on 13 Sep 1900 in Eastbourne, Sussex (daughter of Harold Edward Hacon and Ellen Christobel Griffith); died on 29 May 1993 in The Grove, Over Worton, Middle Barton, Oxfordshire. Children: