.ROBERT GIBBONS my great, great grandfather born 11th November 1846
at Rackenford, Devon. Died May 5th 1881 at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Friday, May 6, 1881; Issue 10289.

The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Monday, May 9, 1881; Issue 10291

He was the son of JOHN GIBBONS and MARY ANN GIBBONS
(nee MOORE) of Rackenford, Devon. Robert's father John Gibbons had been born in Culmstock, Devon.
No idea why he would have moved to Rackenford from Culmstock. There are Gibbons in Rackenford who
are presumably unrelated or not closely related. Robert's mother's family the Moore family seem to have
been from the Rackenford - Knowstone village area for generations. The Moores were mainly Butchers
but had been Yeoman farmers in previous generations.

1 ROBERT GIBBONS born 11 Nov 1846 Rackenford, Devon.
.. +MARGARET ANN LLOYD b: Abt. 1845 Hubberston, Wales
.. 2 GEORGE LLOYD GIBBONS born Dec 1873 Ebbw Vale, South Wales
....... +HARRIET HALLS b: Abt. 1876 St Phillip and St Jacob Parish, Bristol
...... 3 LILIAN GIBBONS b: 7 Mar 1897 Old Market, Bristol
........... +SIDNEY GEORGE TAYLOR b: 14 Feb 1895 Cliftonwood, Bristol
........... 4 NORMAN SIDNEY TAYLOR b1926 Bristol
................ +JOAN MARGARET CREESE b 1931 Bristol
............... 5 PAUL b: 1 Aug 1963 Bristol

1851 Census Cottage (near Higher Lulworthy) Rackenford, Devon John Gibbons Head Married Agricultural Labourer 26 Culmstock, Devon Mary Ann Gibbons Wife Married 24 ................................ Rackenford, Devon ROBERT GIBBONS Son 4 .................................................. Rackenford, Devon Anthony John Gibbons Son 2 ............................................ Witheridge, Devon --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HO107; Piece: 1891; Folio: 169; Page: 10; GSU roll: 221041-221042.

1861 Census, Coleton Hillown? Witheridge, Devon Joseph Coles Head M 40 Farmer of 300 acres emp 3 labourers occasionally.. Born Somerset, Washstanton Mary Ann Coles Wife M 40........................................................................................................................Devon, Stockley Martha Coles Dau 18..................................................................................................... Somerset, Coombe St Nicholas Henry Coles Son 8 ............................................................................................................................. Dorset, Whitechurch Fanny Coles 6 Farmers daughter................................................................................................... Dorset, Whitechurch William Coles Son 2................................................................................................................................ Devon, Witheridge ROBERT GIBBINGS Serv Unm 14 Farm Servant.......................................................................... Devon, Rackenford ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG9; Piece: 1484; Folio: 96; Page: 5; GSU roll: 542820. Robert's brother Anthony John Gibbons is a servant on the next farm Higher Hillsown Farm, Witheridge, Devon

Why Gibbings? His Devonshire accent? seems odd that his name has been transcribed ten years apart as Gibbings!

1871 Census Mornacott Farm, Bishops Nympton, Devon Edmund Passmore Head M 34 Farmer of 199 acres employing 1 labourer and 4 servants....Born Devon, Bishops Nympton Lydia Passmore Wife M 37 Farmers Wife ................................................................................................................ Devon, North Molton Mary Jane Passmore dau 8 Scholar ............................................................................................................... Devon, Bishops Nympton Samuel Passmoreson 6 Scholar ...................................................................................................................... Devon, Bishops Nympton Lydia J Passmore dau 5 Scholar ....................................................................................................................... Devon, Bishops Nympton Clara E Passmore Dau 3 ....................................................................................................................................... Devon, Bishops Nympton Lattie H Passmore 1 .............................................................................................................................................. Devon, Bishops Nympton Herbert E Passmore 4 months ........................................................................................................................... Devon, Bishops Nympton ROBERT GIBBINGS Servant Unm 24 Farm Servant Indoors .................................................................................. Devon, Rackenford Robert Harries Servant Unm 18 Farm Servant Indoors .......................................................................................... Devon, Mariansleigh William Cockings Servant Unm 14 Farm Servant Indoors ............................................................................ Devon, Bishops Nympton John Rowcliffe Servant 13 Farm Servant Indoors ..................................................................................................... Devon, Mariansleigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG10; Piece: 2176; Folio: 52; Page: 11; GSU roll: 832047

1881 Census 3rd April Number ? Fraser Street, Windmill Hill, Bristol Robert Gibbons Head 34 Engine Driver Stationary ......................................... Devonshire Margaret Ann Gibbons wife 36 ............................................................ Pemrokeshire, Wales George Lloyd Gibbons son 8 ..................................................................... Ebbw Vale, Wales Margaret Jane Gibbons Daughter 4 ......................................................... Ebbw Vale, Wales John Henry Gibbons Son 3 ............................................................... Bedminster, Somerset William Robert Gibbons Son 2 .......................................................... Bedminster, Somerset Edith Sarah Gibbbons Daughter 4mths .......................................... Bedminster, Somerset -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG11; Piece: 2456; Folio: 85; Page: 22; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341591

Robert Gibbons was not born Birmingham as written in ancestry.co.uk



Robert Gibbons was fatally injured the next month May 5th 1881 by a Chaff Cutting Machine at Host St, St Augustines, Bristol City Centre and died in the BRI a few hours later. News Paper reports. Was he buried in Arnos Vale Cemetery with his daughter?

Robert married 1873 at llanhileth, Wales.

MARGARET (MARY) ANN LLOYD born abt 1845 in Pembroke St Marys Wales; died in 1917 in Bath Buildings, Montpelier, Bristol. She was the daughter of GEORGE LLOYD and CAROLINE LLOYD (nee EDWARDS). Of Pembrokeshire, Wales, She married (1stly) ROBERT GIBBONS in 1873 at Llanhileth, Wales and (2ndly) James Roberts Yeats (a ships cook) who drowned in 1896 in a ship wreck

It was said that Margaret's beautiful hair went grey over night after the death of her husband Robert in 1881 aged 33 leaving her and their five children totally unprovided for. Mary Anne married again in the 1890's to James Roberts Yeats. Her second husband a ships cook drowned when his ship was wrecked in 1900.

1851 Census 2 Bufferland St Mary's Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales George Loyd Head M 32 Blacksmith.............................................................. Pembroke, Burton Caroline Loyd Wife M 32........................................................................... Pembroke, Hubberston Mary E Loyd Dau 9 Scholar........................................................................ Pembroke, Hubberton Emaline J Loyd Dau 8 ..................................................................................... Pembroke, St Mary's MARGARET ANN LOYD 7 .............................................................................. Pembroke, St Mary's Elizabeth Loyd 5 .............................................................................................. Pembroke, St Mary's Thomas L Loyd Son 3 ..................................................................................... Pembroke, St Mary's William E Loyd Son 1 ....................................................................................... Pembroke, St Mary's Mary Edwards M in L Widow 77 Supported from son ?................. Devon, Penton (Paignton) William Edwards B in L Unm 48 Royal Marine Pensioner.............. Devon, Penton (Paignton) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HO107; Piece: 2476; Folio: 555; Page: 18; GSU roll: 104233-104234.

1861 no sign of the lloyds on Ancestry.co.uk

1871 Census Highfield House, Llanelly, Camarthanshire, Wales Mary Elizth Grylls 18 Margaret Lloyd 27 Servant...................... Born Pembrokeshire John S Tregoning 3 Sophia Tregoning 24 Sophia E Tregoning 1 Wm Edwd Cecil Tregoning 1 month Eliza Williams 33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG10; Piece: 5466; Folio: 13; Page: 21; GSU roll: 850839

Is this her in 1871?

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

Second husband of gt, gt grandmother Margaret Ann Gibbons (nee lloyd) they married in 1896 and family legend has it that he drowned in 1900

1901 Census 31 Louisa Street, Cardiff, Wales Margaret Yates Head Widow 56 ........................................ Pembroke Dock, Wales Edith S Gibbons Dau S 20 Laundress..................................... Bedminster, Bristol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG13; Piece: 4982; Folio: 115; Page: 19

It seems that Margaret has moved to Cardiff for a while. She moved back to Bristol at some point where she died at her daughter Margaret's home in 1917

Children of ROBERT GIBBONS and MARGARET ANN LLOYD are:

(1) GEORGE LLOYD GIBBONS born 1873 Ebbw Vale, Wales; died March 15th, 1923 Kenilworth Place, Newtown, Bristol after a shipping accident in The Bristol Channel, one of the ships involved was "The Echo"; he married HARRIET HALLS daughter of FREDERICK HALLS and HARRIET HALLS (nee SHERGOLD) of Bristol.

(2) Mary Ann Gibbons, born 1875; died December 23rd 1875 Bedminster, Bristol. Buried Arnos Vale, Bath Road, Bristol in an unknown plot..

(3) Margaret Jane Gibbons, born August 25th, 1876 in Ebbw Vale, South Wales; died January 31st, 1956 in Bath Buildings, Montpelier, Bristol; married Alfred John Fox; born August 15, 1872 in Bristol ?; died May 19th, 1934 in Montpelier, Bristol?

(1) Margaret Fox (nee Gibbons) (2) Margaret Fox (nee Gibbons) standing to the left. Her sister Edith (right) (3) Margaret Fox (nee Gibbons) and her daughter Edith and granddaughter and husband David John Lloyd (who is also their first cousin)

 

(4) John Henry Gibbons, born 1878 in Bedminster; died 1962 in Bristol possibly in the Old Market area of Bristol ; married Blanche.

(5) William Robert Gibbons, born 1879 in Bedminster, Bristol; died November 24th, 1929 Buried Greenbank Cemetery Bristol; married Charlotte.

I think he was a barman in 1901 at the Engineers Arms in St John's Lane, Bedminster Bristol. He is married by 1901
Where is his wife Charlotte Gibbons in 1901?

(6) Edith Sarah Gibbons, born December 26th 1880 in Fraser Street Windmill Hill ?;died 1958 in Ebbw Vale, Wales; married David John Lloyd; born August 8th 1883 in Ebbw Vale Wales; died in Ebbw Vale Wales. Her first cousin son of her uncle and aunt John and Elizabeth Lloyd (nee Davies) of Pontypool, Monmouthshire.They were both grandchildren of George and Caroline Lloyd (nee Edwards) of Pembrokeshire.

1901 Census 31 Louisa Street, Cardiff, Wales Margaret Yates Head Widow 56 ........................................................................ Pembroke Dock, Wales Edith S Gibbons Dau S 20 Laundress .................................................................... Bedminster, Bristol --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG13; Piece: 4982; Folio: 115; Page: 19

My father and his second cousin Ray Miles went to Ebbw Vale, Wales in the 1970's? to find out what had happened to their gt aunt Edith and met the vicar who had buried her a few years before They had a son David llloyd of Ebbw Vale, Wales. No information on whether she has living descendants.

1891 Census Church View, Brymbo, Wrexham, East Denbighshire John Lloyd Head M 36 Millright .......... Pembrokeshire, Pembroke Dock (English Speaker) (brother of my gt, gt grandmother) Elizabeth Lloyd Wife M 36 .................. Monmouth, Ebbw Vale (English and Welsh speaker) George Lloyd Son 14 Scholar ................................................................... Monmouth, Ebbw Vale Edith Lloyd Daughter 13 Scholar .............................................................. Monmouth, Ebbw Vale Mary Lloyd Daughter 11 Scholar ................................................................Monmouth, Pontypool David J Lloyd Son 6 Scholar ....................................................................... Monmouth, Pontypool (who married Edith Gibbons) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RG12; Piece: 4616; Folio 63; Page 58; GSU roll: 6099726

Mary (known as Polly) may be mother of Lena? who lived with Sid and Lil and my father during the war? the family live(d) at Shrewsbury

David John Lloyd a first cousin of my gt grandfather George Lloyd Gibbons. He married his first
cousin my gt, gt aunt Edith Sarah Gibbons. They lived at Ebbw Vale, Wales