Robert and Margaret Ann Gibbons (nee lloyd) of Bristol
.ROBERT
GIBBONS my great, great grandfather born 11th November 1846 at Rackenford,
Devon.; died May 5th 1881 at Bristol Royal Infirmary. 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.
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(1) Robert Gibbons (2) Margaret ann Gibbons and son William Robert Gibbons taken in Cardiff.
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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 |
| 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?
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BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR Friday May 6 1881 Yesterday morning a sad accident, which has since proved fatal happened to a man named Robert Gibbons 35 years of age who, resided at Fraser Street Windmill Hill Bedminster. It appeared that Deceased who was in the employ of the Bristol Tramways Co as a Chaff Cutter while engaged in oiling one of the machines accidentally got entangled in the machinery. He was at once conveyed from Colston Street where the accident occurred, to the infirmary and it was there found that one of his legs and his thigh were broken and his head severely injured . He was admitted about 12 in the morning and died at 5.30 PM .The same evening. Deceased leaves a wife and 5 children totally unprovided for. An inquest will probably be heard today. |
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Clifton Chronicle and Directory Wednesday May 11 1881 A sad accident, which proved fatal happened on Thursday morning to a man named Robert Gibbons 35 years of age who, had resided at Fraser Street Windmill Hill Bedminster. Deceased who was in the employ of the Bristol Tramways Co as a Chaff Cutter while engaged in oiling one of the machines accidentally got entangled in the machinery. He was at once conveyed from Colston Street where the accident occurred to the infirmary and it was there found that one of his legs and his thigh were broken and his head severely injured. He was admitted about 12 in the morning, and died at 5.30 the same evening. Deceased leaves a wife and five children totally unprovided for. At the inquest held on Saturday afternoon before the deputy coroner, Mr. E.M. Harwood. A verdict of accidental death was returned. |
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BRISTOL
MERCURY & DAILY POST Saturday May 14th 1881 An
inquest was held by Mr. Harwood on Saturday at the infirmary touching
the death of Robert Gibbons aged 33 years, an engine driver in the employ
of Bristol Tramway & Co and who lately lived in Fraser Street, Windmill
Hill, Bedminster. The deputy coroner having shortly detailed the facts
which had come to his knowledge, the following evidence was taken. The shaft made about 60 revolutions per minute and it was nearly a minute and a quarter before the driving engine was stopped. When rescued the deceased was found to be shockingly injured and witness got a cab into which he was placed and driven to the infirmary, where he died the same evening. He was insensible when placed in the cab, but shortly recovering said he believed he could stand on one leg. The deputy coroner here asked Major Faussett (Inspector of Factories) who was present if he had any question to put to the witness, but Mr.Faussett said he did not think that the place where the accident had happened came within the meaning of the Factory Act, so he had not visited it officially. R.W. Adler engineer of ? Street gave a description of the machinery which his firm had erected. Deceased was a steady man and had been in the employ of the Tramway Co for four years ......................... The re-errection of the machinery to do whatever was necessary, and these instructions were carried. The Deputy Coroner was of opinion from the evidence that the deceased came by his death purely through an accident. The jury concurring; a verdict was returned accordingly. Mr. Doggett (Stanley, Wasborough & Doggett) watched the enquiry for the Tramway Company, and Mr. J.C. Robinson was also present.
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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?
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1891
Census 2 Little Paradise, Bedminster, Bristol |
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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 |
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?
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(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)
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(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
