George
Lloyd Gibbons and Harriet Gibbons (nee Halls)
of Newtown, Bristol
GEORGE LLOYD GIBBONS my great grandfather born abt 1873 at Ebbw Vale, Wales. His parents had married at Llanhileth near by. In 1875 he and his parents were living in Bedminster, Bristol. His grandmother Caroline Lloyd (nee Edwards) died at Portsmouth in 1889 when George was abt 16. George died March 15th 1923 at Kennilworth Place, Newtown, Old Market, Bristol? of pneumonia as a result of a shipping accident in the Bristol Channel. George was a Third Engineer, Mercantile Marines. His Father in Law Frederic Halls died the same year!
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GEORGE LLOYD GIBBONS b: Dec 1873 Ebbw Vale, South Wales
.. +HARRIET HALLS b: Abt. 1876 St Phillip and St Jacob Parish, Bristol
.. 2 LILIAN GIBBONS
b: 07 Mar 1897 15 Waterloo Terrace, Old Market, Bristol
....... +SIDNEY GEORGE
TAYLOR b: 1895 Cliftonwood, Bristol
...... 3 NORMAN SIDNEY TAYLOR
b: c 1926 Bristol
........... +JOAN MARGARET CREESE
b: 18 Jan 1931 Bristol
...........
4 PAUL b: 1963, Bristol
George
was
the son of ROBERT
GIBBONS and MARGARET
ANN GIBBONS (nee LLOYD) 
His father Robert Gibbons
died tragically after an accident in Host St, near St Augustines, Parade,
Bristol on May 5th 1881 at the Bristol Royal Infirmary when
George was 8 years old. His father was in his early 30s. The family had
been living at Fraser Street, Windmill Hill, Bristol.
Memorial cards.
His
father Robert had been working on a chaff cutting machine at Host Street
off Bristol City Centre when he was dragged into the machinery and fatally
injured. George's paternal grandparents were JOHN
GIBBONS
and MARY
ANN GIBBONS (nee MOORE) of Rackenford, Devon. His maternal
grandparents were GEORGE
LLOYD and CAROLINE
LLOYD
(nee EDWARDS) of Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A ships engineer George disliked having his photograph taken. The
picture above is the only known picture of him according to
his daughter Elsie Hancock (nee Gibbons). He died after a shipping disaster
in the Bristol Channel having spent
many hours in the water. He was rescued, but died of pneumonia aged 50 and
is buried at Green Bank Cemetery, Bristol.
Death certificate says " lobar pneumonia prob associated with exposure
due to shipwreck" An inquest was held on the 16th March 1923,
I believe
one of the ships was called "The Echo" the lad in the picture is my gt uncle
John Gibbons (later of Portsmouth)
George lloyd Gibbons disliked the Taylor family his daughter Lilian was
to marry into (the same year as his death) he thought they werea
load of snobs. Which they were.
George's parents Robert and Margaret Gibbons (nee Lloyd)
He
married HARRIET HALLS daughter of FREDERICK
HALLS and HARRIET
HALLS (nee SHERGOLD) my
great grandmother born abt 1876 in Bristol St Phillip and St Jacob; died
in 1930 Bristol. Her Shergold grandparents had come to Bristol from Salisbury,
Wiltshire. Her paternal ancestors the Halls family were from the Tawstock,
Barnstaple and Great Torrington areas of Devon. She was left with a young
family when her husband George died after a shipping accident in 1923 aged
50. Harriet worked endlessly to keep the family together supplementing her
income by, taking in washing and scrubbing floors. She liked to have all
the family together for Christmas at her house in Kenilworth Place, Newtown,
Bristol.
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| 1881
Fraser Street, Windmill Hill, Bedminster Robt. Gibbons Head M 34 Engine Driver Stationary .................... Devonshire Mary A. Gibbons Wife M 36 .................................................................... Pembroke GEO L GIBBONS Son 8 Scholar .......................................................... Monmouth Mary J. Gibbons Dau 5 Scholar ........................................................... Monmouth John .Hy. Gibbons Son 3 ....................................................... Bristol, Bedminster Wm.RT. Gibbons Son 2 ........................................................... Bristol, Bedminster Edith Gibbons Dau 3 mths ..................................................... Bristol, Bedminster ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG11; Piece: 2456; Folio: 85; Page: 22; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341591. |
The
above census was taken on 3rd April 1881. Robert Gibbons was killed in an
accident on 5th May 1881 at Bristol Tramways
Host Street Works (off Bristol city centre) leaving his wife and children
totally unprovided for. Family History relates that her family
the Lloyds helped her out financially and that her beautiful brown hair
grew out grey from the shock and distress of her loss and situation.
The story is that her hair went grey over night but
that isn't actually possible
| 1891
Census 2 Little Paradise, Bedminster, Bristol Margaret A Gibbons Head Widow 46 Nurse ............................... Pembrokeshire, Pembroke GEORGE L GIBBONS son Single 17 Coal Miners Help ................... Monmouth, Ebbw Vale Margaret J Gibbons Daughter Single 14 Staymaker ......................... Monmouth Ebbw Vale John H Gibbons Son Single 13 Scholar .................................................... Bristol, Bedminster William R Gibbons 12 Son Single Scholar ............................................... Bristol, Bedminster Edith S Gibbons 10 daughter Single Scholar ............................................ Bristol, Bedminster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RG12; Piece: 1949; Folio 86; Page 26; GSU roll: 6097059 |
|
1901
Census 3 Redcliff Square, Redcliff, Bristol (Redcliffe) |
Great grandfather George lloyd Gibbons may have been away at sea. He was a ship's engineer.
1897
The Gibbons family were living at 15 Waterloo Terrace,Old Market, Bristol
1901
The Gibbons are living at Redcliff Square Redcliffe, Bristol near St Mary
Redcliffe
1911 of 3 Morley Terrace, Newtown, Old Market, Bristol.
| 1881
Census 7 Catherine St Bristol St Philip & Jacob Out, Gloucester,
England Frederick HALLS Head M Male 42 Labourer at Iron Foundry ... Torrington, Devon Harriet HALLS Wife M Female 42 ............................................................................ Bristol John Avery HALLS Son U Male 14 Scholar ......................................................... Bristol Mary Ann HALLS Daur Female 9 Scholar ............................................................. Bristol HARRIET HALLS Daur Female 6 Scholar ............................................................. Bristol -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family History Library Film 1341602 Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 2497 / 98 Page Number 3 |
| 1891
Census 7 Catherine Street St Phillip and St Jacob Out, Gloucester, England Frederick Halls Head M 51 Corn Porter (Docks) ............................. Torrington Devon Harriet Halls Wife M 50 .....................................................,,................................Bristol, Glos Mary Ann Halls Dau S 19 Boot Machinist.............................................................. Bristol HARRIET HALLS Dau S 16 Boot Machinist ......................................................... Bristol John Avery Halls Head M 24 Smiths Drummer .................................................... Bristol Frances Halls Wife M 26 ............................................................................................. Bristol 'Frederick John Avery Halls Son 1 .......................................................................... Bristol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG12; Piece: 1982; Folio 129; Page 19; GSU |
Children of GEORGE GIBBONS and HARRIET GIBBONS (nee HALLS) are:
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Postcard from Sidney Taylor to his fiance Lilian Gibbons about the death of her brother William in Italy.
(1)
William Shergold Gibbons, born Bedminster, Bristol about 1894. He
died of Flu on the 28th November 1918 in Italy during yjr
first world war. My grandfather Sidney Taylor was the last of the family
to see him alive in Italy. He married Amy Taylor.
They had two? children who both died young. Family legend has it that her
son by her second marriage to a Mr Williams
flew a plane under the suspension Bridge.
(2)
Caroline Gibbons, born April 5th 1896 Bedminster, Bristol. She married
Alfred Miles born 26th february 1899 Bristol.
Caroline and Alfred had one daughter.
(3) LILIAN
GIBBONS, born March 7th 1897 at 15 Waterloo Terrace, Old Market,
Bristol;
died 1960 in St Werburghs, Bristol; married SIDNEY
GEORGE TAYLOR October 27, 1923
in St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall. My grandmother.
(4)
John Gibbbons born Redcliff, Bristol abt 1900. He was a sailor and
lived at Portsmouth. I met him once when
he was elderly. He had been in the navy. As kids for some reason we thought
he had been on the HMS Victory!
He died November 29th 1977 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. Has
decendants in Portsmouth area.
(5)
Edith Gibbons, born 1901. She died 22nd February 1979.
Lived Southmead, Bristol in a prefab after their house was bombed in the
Second World War. Edith married Reginald Blake.
They had one daughter Rita who married ( Ken Parnell?) and died young. It
was with Edith and her husband that great grandmother Harriet
Gibbons (nee Halls) lived with in old age.
(6) George Arthur Gibbons born and died 1907
(7) Elsie Gibbons,
born abt 1911 at Kennilworth Place, Newtown, Bristol. Married Mr Hancock.
She lived in the 1970's at Hampton Park, Cotham, Bristol. Died abt 1986.
I was sent more details of her life by cousin Martin
but lost them in a computer crash. When we knew her as children she lived
in a top floor flat at Hampton Park off Cotham Hill in
Cotham, Bristol.
(8)
George Gibbons born 12/10/1912 died abt 1986 married Edith Mason and
has descendants
