1912 - 2011 (98 years)
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Name |
Daphne Marian Gibbs |
Birth |
8 Nov 1912 |
Chelsea, London |
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Gender |
Female |
Baptism |
7 Dec 1912 |
Chelsea, London |
Death |
4 Jan 2011 |
Roseau Hospital, St George, Dominica |
Notes |
- Born 8 November 1912. Baptised 7 December 1912 at the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (first baby).
Went to Australia with her parents living first in Melbourne and then in Perth where she attended The Presbyterian Ladies College. She returned to England when she was 12 and finished her education at Heathfield School and also in Paris. In 1932 her mother and stepfather moved to Dominica in the West Indies and she went with them, living there for the rest of her life. She marired Percy Kirwan Agar a farmer and well known painter and ornithologist. She ran the census office in the War. After husband’s death in 1954 she continued to run the estate, started the local radio station, worked for many local charities including the Red Cross and was a founder member and Managing director of the Fort Young Hotel for many years.
The Fort Young Hotel, Dominica, which was destroyed by Hurricane 'David' when it hit Dominica in August 1979, but since rebuilt. She also helped to run the Coulibri Estate dairy farm, and the farm at La Haut, the family estate, that was also totally wrecked in the hurricane; all the buildings on the dairy farm fell down, but only one cow was lost.
Last address: Morne Rouge, Dominica, West Indies, which was one of the few houses not destroyed by the hurricane.
Died 4 January 2011.
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Person ID |
I1992 |
Gibbs Family Tree |
Last Modified |
10 Nov 2020 |
Father |
Captain Maurice Antony Crutchley Gibbs, b. 9 Jun 1888, 10 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea, London d. 8 Aug 1974, La Haut, Saint George, Dominica (Age 86 years) |
Mother |
Elma Gordon Cumming, b. 23 Mar 1892, Forres, Moray, Scotland d. 12 Nov 1973, Antrim Valley, St.Paul, Dominica (Age 81 years) |
Marriage |
10 Jan 1912 |
Altyre Church, Nr. Forres, Moray, Scotland |
Divorce |
1923 |
Family ID |
F908 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Percy Kirwan Agar, b. 28 Sep 1897, Roseau, Saint George, Dominica d. 12 Jul 1954, La Haut, Saint George, Dominica (Age 56 years) |
Marriage |
5 Jan 1934 |
Roseau, Saint George, Dominica |
Children |
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Family ID |
F910 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
9 Jul 2017 |
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