Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook (General)

by unknown, Wednesday, April 06, 2011, 14:51 (5052 days ago) @ jimashton

Thank you so much Jim!

You have saved me endless hours of research with this information.

I have always regarded myself as being 110% Welsh - I even speak Welsh! - but growing up was aware that my grandfather Morgan Gibbs (born Nov 1911) had a Forest of Dean connection.

His father, another Morgan Gibbs, was the son of Prudence Gibbs, although Morgan appears as Morgan Collins on the 1901 and 1911 census. The name change has confused the hell out of me.

The family clearly left the Forest between 1901 and 1911 to move to Pontypool in South Wales (where I come from), to work in coal mining. Any idea why? I understand Lydbrook has a history of coal mining, despite being a sleepy village today.

Any idea also who Rick and Sheila are? I have met a Sheila Gibbs a few years ago (before I got into this family history stuff!) and I know she is a relation of mine.

Anyway, thanks again for your time and effort. It is really appreciated.

Diolch yn fawr iawn,

David G.

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George GIBBS born Mitcheldean about 1828 - rickandsheila, 2008-11-15, 02:08
- George GIBBS 1797 Mitcheldean - slowhands, 2008-11-15, 20:48
  - William GIBBS 1752 Mitcheldean - slowhands, 2008-11-15, 20:56
    - Mary GIBBS 1754 ish - 1834 Mitcheldean - slowhands, 2008-11-15, 21:06
      - Mary THACKWELL 1754 Longhope - slowhands, 2008-11-15, 21:07
- George GIBBS born Mitcheldean about 1828 - slowhands, 2008-11-15, 21:49
  - George GIBBS born Mitcheldean about 1828 - rickandsheila, 2008-11-16, 06:56
    - George GIBBS born Mitcheldean about 1828 - unknown, 2011-04-04, 21:21
  - Prudence GIBBS (nee COLLINS / HARRIS) 1825 - 1916 Lydbrook - slowhands, 2011-04-06, 07:16
- Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - unknown, 2011-04-04, 21:08
  - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - jimashton, 2011-04-05, 13:06
    - TREHERNE Family in 1911 - slowhands, 2011-04-05, 20:38
    - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - unknown, 2011-04-06, 14:51
      - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - unknown, 2011-04-09, 18:32
    - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - jchardy, 2011-08-28, 00:02
  - Morgan GIBBS/ COLLINS 1874 -1917 Lydbrook - prior thread - slowhands, 2011-04-05, 20:52
    - Morgan GIBBS/ COLLINS 1874 -1917 Lydbrook - prior thread - unknown, 2011-04-09, 19:21
  - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - jchardy, 2011-08-22, 00:30
    - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - unknown, 2011-08-22, 10:09
      - Rick and Sheila - GIBBS Family Lydbrook - jimashton, 2011-08-22, 16:49
- George Treherne 1857 - re locked thread - George Gibbs - jimashton, 2011-08-28, 16:32
  - George Gibbs - death in Monmouthshire, May 1877 - unknown, 2011-09-05, 20:43

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