JOHNSON FAMILY HISTORIES

  FROM CHIPPENHAM TO HEYFIELD

ibbs Family History

ORIGINS

The history of the GIBBS family as recorded in an English paper 1976:

GIBBS GIBB GIB GIBBES GIBSON son of GIBBS. Original families 1066 - 1100 They were Normans not French.

Another family settled in Warwickshire and they had a different coat of arms. Another family settled in Scotland. They became a sub clan to the Buchanan clan and had a separate Coat of Arms. The Wiltshire, Cornwall families were as few as eight families (Wiltshire two families)

DE GIBBES is the pet name of Gilbert from Germany. The name was Romanised in France (GAUL) around the first century to Gilbertus.

Chippenham was a market town for centuries. It was known to King Alfred who used to hunt in the near-by forests. Now a concrete bridge, built in 1966, spans the Avon and leads to the town. Although industrial, it has a 15th century town hall, some attractive half-timber houses and others of stone dating from the 18th century. St. Andrew's Church was rebuilt in the 19th century but the Hungerford Chapel is 15th century and contains some interesting monuments.

Our GIBBS family starts off in Chippenham Wiltshire where Robert GIBBS was baptised on the 13th February 1745. On the 8th June 1767, Robert married Ann WOODMAN and they had approximately five children. Robert's parents were Robert GIBBS and Elizabeth WAITE. Their children were Ann, Elizabeth who married Henry SMITH, Ann who married John MILSOM, Hannah, John who married Ann DAVIS, Robert, Benjamin who married Mary MACEY & Sarah who married John BUSHALL.

Benjamin & Mary had seven children - John who married Lucy SMITH, William, James, Elizabeth, Robert who married Mary MOODY, Mary Ann who married Benjamin ARMSTEAD & Henry.

John & Lucy came to Australia and had William who married Elizabeth SUTHERLAND, Frederick who married Mary Emma McEWAN, Thomas who married Anna Sybella RENDELL, Harriette who married Samuel LANG, Benjamin, Mary Ann, Lucy, James who married Ann MUTCH, Alexander who married Amy PALMER and Douglas who married Alice ROBERTS.

Robert and Mary came to Australia and of their surviving children, there were - Mary Ann, Harry who married (1)Martha MEEK, (2)Elizabeth CANNELL and (3)Eleanor WILLIAMSON, Elizabeth who married Augustine CLUES, Catherine, Frank Moody, George who married Annie Maud GRAHAM, Frank who married Moscoe Ellen SELLINGS, Mary Kathleen who married John GILDER, Charles, and Stella who married Alfred Charles PETTIT.

Harry GIBBS

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