John Ley Gibbs: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1793 - 1837 (44 years)

Generation: 1

John Ley Gibbs was born on 15 Jun 1793 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 8 Nov 1837 in Manchester, Lancashire; was buried on 13 Nov 1837 in St Peters, Blackley, Lancashire.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: Bristol, Gloucestershire; St Augustine's
Occupation: Merchant

Notes:

2nd son, sometime of Genoa, later of Manchester. Merchant. Born 15 June 1793, baptised at St. Augustine's Bristol, educated at Blundell's aforesaid 1804-8. Died at Manchester 8 November 1837, buried at Blackley there. Will dated 3 November 1837.

Clerk in Thomson Hankey & Co., merchants in the City of London, 1808-16. Joined the business of his uncle Lyle in Genoa, 1816, partner 1825-35. In business in Manchester 1836-7. Portrait see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs

John married Ellin Maria Gamble on 15 Nov 1828 in Finsbury, Middlesex. Ellin (daughter of John Richard Gamble and Elizabeth Devis) was born on 2 Nov 1807 in Paxton, Huntingdonshire; died on 27 Nov 1835 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; was buried on 29 Nov 1835 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. child Gibbs was born in 1829; died in 1829.
3. Frances Louisa Gibbs was born on 29 Mar 1831 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; died in 1835 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; was buried in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy.
4. John Douglas Lyle Gibbs was born on 21 Jan 1833 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; died on 27 Sep 1891 in Wien, Austria.
5. Elizabeth Ellin Gibbs was born on 10 Jan 1835 in London; died on 26 Dec 1864 in London; was buried in Kilburn, Middlesex.

Generation: 2

John Douglas Lyle Gibbs

(1.John¹) was born on 21 Jan 1833 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; died on 27 Sep 1891 in Wien, Austria.

Other Events and Attributes:

Baptism: 12 Mar 1833, British Chaplaincy, Genova, Genova, Liguria, Italy

Notes:

Sometime manager of the Eastern Telegraph Co. in Egpyt. The last in the male line of descendants of Captain John Gibbs of Topsham.

John married Marian Ballard on 26 Jun 1858 in Westminster, London. Marian (daughter of John Ballard and Louisa Ballard) was born about 1842 in Berkshire; died on 15 Mar 1878 in Alexandria, Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]