Richard Bagnall Gibson - (My G-G-Grandfather)

Date of Birth

Location of Birth & Baptism if known

Abt. 1815 Meath, Ireland.
Date of Death Location of Death & Burial if known
17 Dec 1870 Geelong, Victoria, Australia

PARENTS (These are the most likely but yet to be proven as several elderly members of the family here in Australia had old paper cuttings about Lord Ashbourne and some mentioned that we were somehow related to Violet Gibson who shot Mussolini but they didn't know the connection.  - Can anybody help???)

Father

Mother

William Gibson - Lodge Park, Co Meath, Ireland Margaret Bagnell

SPOUSE & MARRIAGE DETAILS

Date of Marriage

Spouse

Location of Marriage

11 Nov 1842

Penelope Hastings St Andrew's, Longham, Norfolk, England

CHILDREN

Anna Eliza Marianne Gibson ANNA ELIZA MARIANNE GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 22-Nov-1845 in Mois Gunge, India, and died 10-Mar-1915 in Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia. She married JOHN DIGBY SMITH 24-Oct-1866 in Vic, Australia, son of JOHN SMITH and CAROLINE GRAY. He was born 31-Mar-1829 in Calcutta, India, and died 05-May-1916 in Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia.

Children of ANNA GIBSON and JOHN SMITH are:

i. ANNA DIGBY SMITH, b. 31-Aug-1867, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. 17-Jan-1957, Glen Iris, Vic, Australia; m. WILLIAM HENRY BALLANTYNE TWISS, 22-Nov-1893, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; b. 1869, Happy Valley, Vic, Australia; d. 15-Oct-1946, Glen Iris, Vic, Australia.

ii. CAROLINE FLORENCE SMITH, b. 15-Oct-1868; d. 29-Nov-1942, East St Kilda, Vic, Australia.

iii. ADA PENELOPE SMITH, b. 04-Sep-1870, Lindenow, Vic, Australia; d. 09-Jun-1878, Victoria, Australia.

iv. DIGBY JOHN DAVISON SMITH, b. 12-Sep-1872, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 29-Mar-1873, Victoria, Australia.

v. HORACE DIGBY SMITH, b. 10-Jan-1874, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. 30-May-1961, Maffra, Vic, Australia; m. CATHERINE MAUD MURPHY, 01-Dec-1908, "Linden", Lindenow, Vic, Australia; b. 21-Apr-1877, Lindenow Flat, Vic, Australia; d. 10-Jun-1952, Maffra, Vic, Australia.

vi. RICHARD ALEXANDER SMITH, b. 24-Sep-1875, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 30-May-1965, Geelong, Vic, Australia; m. EDIE MAUD BILLS, 1903; b. 06-Dec-1883, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 21-Dec-1954, Kilmore, Vic, Australia.

vii. LOUISA CHARLOTTE SMITH, b. 19-Dec-1877, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. May-1968, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; m. CHARLES POTTER, 17-Jul-1907, St John's C of E, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; b. 1874, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. 1955, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia.

viii. ARTHUR DIGBY SMITH, b. 16-Nov-1879, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 28-Oct-1963, Caulfield, Vic, Australia; m. KATHERINE HOOPER, 1914, Vic, Australia; b. Abt. 1891; d. 1929, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia.

ix. BABY SMITH, b. 1881, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. 1881, Lucknow, Vic, Australia.

x. BABY SMITH, b. 13-Jan-1883, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. 13-Jan-1883.

xi. NORA EILEEN SMITH, b. 25-Feb-1884, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 09-Oct-1968, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia.

xii. SYDNEY HENRY SMITH, b. 27-Nov-1890, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; d. 25-Sep-1942, Heidelberg, Vic, Australia; m. JESSIE MAY TURNER, 1929, Victoria, Australia; b. 1889, Ascot Vale, Vic, Australia; d. Nov-1962, "Park", Vic, Australia.

Ellen Hastings Gibson ELLEN HASTINGS GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born Abt. 1848 in India, and died 1853 in Vic, Australia.
William Edward Gibson  WILLIAM EDWARD GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 1848 in probably India, and died 08-Jun-1929 in Armadale, Vic, Australia.
Mary Florence Gibson MARY FLORENCE GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 1855 in Alberton, Vic, Australia, and died 1861 in Gippsland, Vic, Australia.
Charlotte Penelope Gibson CHARLOTTE PENELOPE GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 08-Sep-1856 in Tarraville, Vic, Australia, and died 1931 in Prahran, Vic, Australia.
Alfred Leslie Gibson ALFRED LESLIE GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 1858 in "Greenhills", Tarraville, Vic, Australia, and died 1933 in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. He married ANNIE VALENTINE SMYTHE 04-Sep-1879 in Lindenow Victoria, Australia, daughter of ROBERT SMYTHE and MARY ?. She was born 24-Oct-1850 in Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland, and died 10-Dec-1919 in Yerong Creek, NSW, Australia.

Children of ALFRED GIBSON and ANNIE SMYTHE are:

i. LESLIE GIBSON, b. 1881, Lucknow, Vic, Australia; d. Bet. 1950 - 1960, Sydney, NSW, Australia; m. AMANDA BEATRICE CUMMINS, 1905, Vic, Australia; b. Coleraine, Vic, Australia.

ii. UN-NAMED (Possibly Tom") GIBSON, b. 1883, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia.

iii. PENELOPE HASTINGS GIBSON, b. 1886, Bairnsdale, Vic, Australia; m. GEORGE JAMES STEWART, 1907, Vic, Australia; b. Ireland.

iv. ALICE GIBSON, b. 27-Nov-1887, Moama District, NSW, Australia; d. 1960, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; m. WALTER STRACHAN, 1912, Albury, NSW, Australia; b. 09-Apr-1888, Jingellic, NSW, Australia; d. 1964.

v. MAUDE GIBSON, b. 27-Nov-1887, Moama District, NSW, Australia; d. 1889, Warracknabeal, Vic, Australia.

vi. FLORENCE MURIEL GIBSON, b. 1893, "Dunk", Vic, Australia; m. PERCY SIMMS.

Francis Henry Gibson FRANCIS HENRY GIBSON (RICHARD BAGNALL1) was born 1868 in Lucknow, Vic, Australia, and died 1935 in Tamworth, NSW, Australia.

OTHER KNOWN INFORMATION OR COMMENTS:-  Richard Bagnall Gibson is buried on one of the few unmarked graves at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery and the only possible matching death entry in the Pioneers BDM's for Victoria is for a Richard Gibson aged 55 yrs, born in Dublin, Ireland.

 

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