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Family of Robert William Gibbon and Frances Edith Smith

Husband: Robert William Gibbon

  • Name:

  • Robert William Gibbon

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Charles William Gibbon (1820-1899)

  • Mother:

  • Mary Ann Wheeler (1836- )

  • Note:

  • GIBBON Robert William of Finsbury Court London and of 107 Hadley Road New Barnet Hertfordshire died 14 November 1932 at 107 Hadley Road. Probate London 26 January 1933 to Ronald Turing Gibbon insurance broker and Hubert John Gibbon and Robert Geoffrey Gibbon schoolmasters. Effects £6322 12s. 4d.

  • Birth:

  • 1863

  • Islington, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1863 (age 0)

  • GRO Reference: 1863 J Quarter in ISLINGTON Volume 01B Page 283

  • Census (1):

  • 1881 (age 17-18)

  • Commercial clerk, living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 27-28)

  • Marine average adjustor, The Grange, Underhill, Chipping Barnet (brother-in-law, unmarried)

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 37-38)

  • Marine insurance agent, Hadley Road, Monken Hadley, Herts

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Insurance agent & broker (on son Robert's marriage cert, 1979)

  • Death:

  • 14 Nov 1932 (age 68-69)

  • 107 Hadley Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire

Wife: Frances Edith Smith

  • Name:

  • Frances Edith Smith

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  • GIBBON Frances Edith of Woodside Villa Hadley Road New Barnet Hertfordshire (wife of Robert William Gibbon) died 16 April 1913. Probate London 17 June to the said Robert William Gibbon insurance agent and Frederick Bernard Smith solicitor. Effects £2288 13s. 8d.

  • Birth:

  • c. 1871

  • London

  • Death:

  • 16 Apr 1913 (age 41-42)

  • Woodside Villa, Hadley Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire

Child 1: Ronald Turing Gibbon

  • Name:

  • Ronald Turing Gibbon

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1895

  • Edmonton, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1895 (age 0)

  • 1895 Sep Qtr, Edmonton, 3a/316

Child 2: Gerald Cedric Gibbon

  • Name:

  • Gerald Cedric Gibbon

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Note:

  • GIBBON Gerald Cedric of 19 Bon Accord Crescent Aberdeen N.B. died 20 February 1914. Administration London 21 March to Robert William Gibbon insurance agent. Effects £162 14s. 7d.

  • Birth:

  • 1896

  • Edmonton, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1896 (age 0)

  • 1896 Dec Qtr, Edmonton, 3a/318

  • Death:

  • 20 Feb 1914 (age 17-18)

  • 19 Bon Accord Crescent, Aberdeen

Child 3: Hubert John Gibbon

  • Name:

  • Hubert John Gibbon

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 1899

  • New Barnet, Hertfordshire

  • Birth fact:

  • 1899 (age 0)

  • 1899 Jun Qtr, Barnet, 3a/298

Child 4: Robert Geoffrey Gibbon

  • Name:

  • Robert Geoffrey Gibbon

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Nirvana Ayscough de Fontenelle Fawkes (1914-1984)

  • Note:

  • Born in Barnet in February 1901, and educated at Aldenham and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in Modern History, Canon Geoffrey Gibbon was a school teacher for 10 years before entering Wells Theological College. He was ordained in 1934 in Southwark and served for three years in the parish of St Peter's Church at St Helier. When he volunteered for serice overseas he was accepted by the London office of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia Missions, and sent to Southern Rhodesia.

    Canon Gibbon returned to England in 1965 and took over a parish in the Cotswolds until his retirement in 1971.

    Source: "Paget of Rhodesia" by Geoffrey Gibbon, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1973 (dust jacket)

  • Birth:

  • 5 Feb 1901

  • New Barnet, Hertfordshire

  • Birth fact:

  • 1901 (age 0)

  • 1901 Mar Qtr, Barnet, 3a/331

  • Occupation (1):

  • 11 Sep 1979 (age 78)

  • Clerk in Holy Orders, The Vicarage, Winchcombe

  • Occupation (2):

  • 5 Aug 1984 (age 83)

  • Clerk in Holy Orders (retired), Edgehill, Stockwell Lane, Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham (on wife Nirvana's death cert.)

  • Death fact:

  • Jan 1987 (age 85)

  • Hendon, 13/664 (aged 85)

  • Occupation (3):

  • 1987 (age 85-86)

  • Anglican priest (retired), 62 The Bishops Avenue, London N.2

  • Education:

  •  

  • Aldenham School & Merton College, Oxford

  • Death:

  • 16 Jan 1987 (age 85)

  • Hendon, Middlesex

Note on Husband: Robert William Gibbon

GIBBON Robert William of Finsbury Court London and of 107 Hadley Road New Barnet Hertfordshire died 14 November 1932 at 107 Hadley Road. Probate London 26 January 1933 to Ronald Turing Gibbon insurance broker and Hubert John Gibbon and Robert Geoffrey Gibbon schoolmasters. Effects £6322 12s. 4d.

Note on Wife: Frances Edith Smith

GIBBON Frances Edith of Woodside Villa Hadley Road New Barnet Hertfordshire (wife of Robert William Gibbon) died 16 April 1913. Probate London 17 June to the said Robert William Gibbon insurance agent and Frederick Bernard Smith solicitor. Effects £2288 13s. 8d.

Note on Child 2: Gerald Cedric Gibbon

GIBBON Gerald Cedric of 19 Bon Accord Crescent Aberdeen N.B. died 20 February 1914. Administration London 21 March to Robert William Gibbon insurance agent. Effects £162 14s. 7d.

Note on Child 4: Robert Geoffrey Gibbon

Born in Barnet in February 1901, and educated at Aldenham and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in Modern History, Canon Geoffrey Gibbon was a school teacher for 10 years before entering Wells Theological College. He was ordained in 1934 in Southwark and served for three years in the parish of St Peter's Church at St Helier. When he volunteered for serice overseas he was accepted by the London office of the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia Missions, and sent to Southern Rhodesia.

Canon Gibbon returned to England in 1965 and took over a parish in the Cotswolds until his retirement in 1971.

Source: "Paget of Rhodesia" by Geoffrey Gibbon, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1973 (dust jacket)