Origin and Meaning of the name Gibbons
GIBBONS is a Scottish and English personal name. Gibbon's meaning of or pertaining to Gibbon's family. Gibbon was an Old English form of Gilbert and this type of name with an 's could, of course, have referred to Gilbert's son or Gilbert's man as in Gilbert's servant.
The Gibbons Family of
The aim of my research would be trace back the Gibbons boatmen as far as possoble and find any possible links to the family.
On obtaining a copy of her grandparent's marriage certificate my aunt discovered that her grandmother was, in fact, Margaret Webster and not Margaret Gibbons as we had previously believed
Nevertheless, the Gibbons family of Burscough were closely related to the other boat families and there are at least two other marriages between Gibbons and Cheethams:
Richard Gibbons and Catherine Cheetham in 1915
Peter Gibbons and Margaret Cheetham in 1919
I do not know, as yet, what relationship these Cheethams are to ours but as they were boatmen from Burscough they must be related in some way.
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