Sylvia Beatrice Cokayne

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Jun 1863, St John's, Paddington, London
• Residence: 1901, Putney, Surrey

Notes:

Sylvia was Francis's first cousin. 4th daughter of George Edward Adams, afterwards Cokayne. Born at 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, 18 May and baptised 19 June 1863 at St. John's, Paddington. Was buried at Putney Vale.

In the Great War she was a working member of the Putney Depot of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.

Portraits: Oil, 'The Dead robin,' by E.U. Eddis (1870), last in possession of her brother Lord Cullen (engraved by Algernon Graves, circ. 1873). Water-colour by Fred. Pegram (1920); miniature by Mrs Kay Robertson; drawing by P. Downes; a chalk by E.U. Eddis (original drawing for 'The Dead Robin'; all four in possession of her husband in 1932; 'The Dead Robin' by Eddis, in possession of George Medley in 1980, now with Alexandra White (2021).

Sylvia married Francis Lomax Gibbs on 26 Apr 1909 in St Peter's, Eaton Sq., Westminster, London. Francis (son of Rev. John Lomax Gibbs and Isabel Marianne Bright) was born on 28 Jan 1869 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; died on 28 Dec 1943 in Wandsworth, London; was buried on 1 Jan 1944 in Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]