Hi We always used gibbons in Newbridge Mon. but most of the families there came from the FOD including both sides of my family ALLAWAys and POWELLs

you know I think this is a Welsh thing rather than a Forest thing - Jibbons / Gibbons for spring onions -
however give the ebb and flow of families between the Vallies coal fields and the Forest, this could become a chicken and egg debate :-)

My Forest grandad who had Monmouthshire connections used to say jibbons, and given the forest accent it could easily have been gibbons, but I was more used to the term scallions. I just presumed (rightly or wrongly) that this was a Yorkshire version as my mother was from Yorkshire and they all use scallions or "scally onions" up there. They were still marked up and sold as Scallions on Guisborough market when I was there last June. Enough diversion for me tonight, back to some family history.