Emily Anna Otter

1854 - 1928  (74 years)

• Name	Emily Anna Otter
  Birth	6 Mar 1854	Cowfold, Sussex
  	Vicarage
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	9 Apr 1854	Cowfold, Sussex
  Residence	1861	Cowfold, Sussex
  Residence	1891	London
  Residence	1901	Berkshire
  Death	5 Jul 1928	Fyfield, Berkshire
  	Car Accident
  Burial	8 Jul 1928	Barrow Gurney, Somerset
  Notes	5th daughter of Rev. William Bruere Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes, by Elizabeth, 3rd and youngest daughter of Robert Melvil, English Consul at Amsterdam. Baptised 9 April 1854 in Cowfold Parish Church. Buried 8 July 1928 at Barrow Gurney. Memorial Inscription in the churchyard there and in Barrow Court chapel. Memorial reredos and Memorial window, both as aforesaid under her husband. Administration 23 November 1928. The following is a selection from a number of posts which she held at different times. In 1920 she resigned from sixteen on account of ill health. An original member of the General and Exec. Committees of the Somerset Federation of Women's Institutes, 1902-12, and an elected Vice-President, 1902-28; President of the Barrow-Gurney Women's Institute till 1928; Founder and President of the local Nursing Association; for many years on the Committee of the Somerset Association of the Welfare of Women and Girls: co-opted Member of the Board of Guardians of Long Ashton afsd. 1904-28, and acted on many of its sub-committees; on the Somerset County Education Committee, 1903-20, and co-opted Member of its Special Subjects Committee, 1913-20; a Trustee of St. Michael's Home afsd. till 1928; on the Council of Bristol Blind School for many years till 1928; on the General Committee of Bristol Blind Asylum 1912-28; founded in 1912 the North Somerset Women's Unionist Association and was President and Chairman thereof; Local Representative of the Long Ashton War Pensions Sub-committee, 1914-20. Portraits: By Wm. Walker (1883); by Goldsborough Anderson (1905); min. by Miss Hall, last in possession of her son Major Anthony Gibbs.
  Person ID	I1733	Gibbs Family Tree
  Last Modified	26 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Rev. William Bruere Otter,   b. 28 May 1805, Leatherhead, Surrey d. 25 Jun 1876, Cowfold, Sussex (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Melvil,   b. 13 Oct 1814, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands d. 17 Jan 1892, Cowfold, West Sussex (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	18 May 1837	's-Gravenhage, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F1029	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Martin Gibbs, High Sheriff, Somerset,   b. 30 May 1850, Paddington, London d. 22 Apr 1928, Barrow Gurney, Somerset (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	22 Jun 1883	Lindfield, Sussex
  Children	+ 1. Lieut. Colonel William Otter Gibbs,   b. 13 Sep 1883, Clifton, Gloucestershire d. 22 Mar 1960 (Age 76 years)   2. Lieut. Noel Martin Gibbs,   b. 25 Dec 1884, Barrow Gurney, Somerset d. 20 Mar 1916, Kahe, German East Africa (Age 31 years)   3. The Rev. Francis Antony Woodard Gibbs,   b. 17 Dec 1885, Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Somerset d. 3 Aug 1946, Fairford, Gloucestershire (Age 60 years)   4. Roland Vicary Gibbs,   b. 16 Mar 1887, Barrow Gurney, Somerset d. 19 Jul 1909, Barrow Gurney, Somerset (Age 22 years)   5. Matilda Blanche Gibbs,   b. 20 Nov 1888, Barrow Gurney, Somerset d. 14 Jan 1889, Barrow Gurney, Somerset (Age 0 years)   6. Major Guy Melvil Gibbs,   b. 15 Dec 1889, Paddington, London d. 14 Mar 1959, Cirencester, Gloucestershire (Age 69 years)   7. Ralph Crawley Boevey Gibbs,   b. 24 Jul 1891, Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, Somerset d. 10 Aug 1957, Rudston, Yorkshire (Age 66 years)   8. Captain Lionel Cyril Gibbs,   b. 15 Feb 1893, Flax Bourton, Somerset d. 25 Dec 1940, Hampshire (Age 47 years)   9. Mary Albinia Gibbs,   b. 5 Nov 1894, Down Ampney, Gloucestershire d. 15 Sep 1979 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jul 2017

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 6 Mar 1854 - Cowfold, Sussex Baptism - 9 Apr 1854 - Cowfold, Sussex Residence - 1861 - Cowfold, Sussex Marriage - 22 Jun 1883 - Lindfield, Sussex Residence - 1891 - London Residence - 1901 - Berkshire Death - 5 Jul 1928 - Fyfield, Berkshire Burial - 8 Jul 1928 - Barrow Gurney, Somerset  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  1911 England Census - Henry Martin Gibbs.jpeg