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Henry Blake Gibbons b.1854 Islington
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Phil | Report | 23 Feb 2009 04:42 |
Anyone want to clear up a 129 year old mystery? |
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Vicci | Report | 23 Feb 2009 04:55 |
Phil |
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Linda | Report | 23 Feb 2009 05:03 |
The unfortunate thing is that if anyone other than family registered his death, they may not have known of his middle name. There are a lot of deaths that may match, but without buying the certs for every one, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm not being defeatist, if it's out there someone will find it!! Cheers Linda :) |
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Vicci | Report | 23 Feb 2009 05:12 |
no luck with Gibbons deaths at sea. |
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Phil | Report | 23 Feb 2009 21:07 |
The only possible answer to him being alive is that he found another woman. He cannot have married her, because Amanda Lethbridge died in 1902 as a widow. Have looked into all marraiges etc, and it seems unlikely. Only ONE death hasnt been checked out, a H.Gibbons who died in Hants in 1886...but there is no earthly reason for him being there. Apart from London, his only other known connection is Plymouth. Thank you so much for your kind efforts. I am very grateful for any help in this matter. |
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Phil | Report | 23 Feb 2009 21:10 |
He IS listed a amerchant seaman, (steward) on his marraige certificate though. However, all efforts on that front have so far come to nothing. I am truly indebted to you all for your help in this. I was kind of hoping that PERHAPS someone related to his siblings would know, but again, a strange thing there too, Charles, his brother, lived his life in New Malden, and HBG jbr b.1880lived HIS whole life in Teddington. Yet knew of NO other family members on his father's side! |
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Vicci | Report | 25 Feb 2009 01:03 |
Merchant Navy |
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Vicci | Report | 25 Feb 2009 01:11 |
regarding Hampshire (Hants) , Portsmouth has a big naval dock (Portsea) |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 02:33 |
This is Amanda's household in 1901: |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 02:41 |
What do you think are the chances that William Hole and Matilda Hole are just plain Henry Gibbons and Amanda Gibbons? |
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Phil | Report | 25 Feb 2009 15:55 |
Certainly possible. The Amanda M Hole in the 1891 census looks to be MY Amanda Malvina Gibbons too with the wrong age. But there is one thing that stops all this, THOSE CHILDREN cannot all have been hers. As she married in 1879 to Henry Blake Gibbons, and they are registered together in the 1881 census living in Horsleydown, Southwark, London with HIS parents and their child (my grandad b. 1880). |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:15 |
Just to add to it all -- William G Hole and Matilda Hole in 1881: |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:26 |
Finally, a birth to go with those names: |
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Phil | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:27 |
Which means that Matilda Hole isnt Amanda Malvina Gibbons nee Lethbridge b. 1858....so where the ???? is she in the 1891 census?---hmmmm |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:28 |
And the marriage. |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:41 |
Well, this is interesting. |
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Jooleh | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:52 |
Phil I'm confused................do you have Amanda in Bledlow in 1901 - not Plymouth as Amanda M Hole? |
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Jooleh | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:55 |
I think the Marriage of William Hole and Matilda Scammell is accounted for in the census' in North Curry Somerset |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 16:58 |
Uh oh. Yes, I haven't been tracking forward yet -- like those Lethbridge births, to see whether they're accounted for. |
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EvieBeavie | Report | 25 Feb 2009 17:01 |
Okay, better births. |