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jillruss
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Gibsons in the circus?
« on: Tuesday 30 August 05 15:38 UTC (UK) »
A bit of a long shot, but thought I'd ask anyway...

Is anyone researching the name GIBSON in East Yorkshire with ancestors further back in West Yorkshire and even Westmorland?

Do you know of a possible circus or fairground connection to your GIBSONs?

Did they ever live in Nellies Terrace , Gillett Street in Hull?

If the answer to any of the above questions is either 'Yes' or 'maybe', please get in touch!

Jill
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Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp  Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp  Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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Re: Gibsons in the circus?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 May 09 07:39 UTC (UK) »
John Turner's "Victorian Arena - the performers" has a Mr Gibson listed as a clown at Stamford for mid-lent fair of 1804 and with Cooke's Circus at York in 1824 and with James Ryan's company at Birmingham in 1839
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jillruss
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Re: Gibsons in the circus?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 May 09 11:36 UTC (UK) »
Hi,

Thanks for that.

My grandfather Robert (Bob) Gibson was reputedly a circus clown (and bareback rider) in his youth, and his father a ringmaster, but this was much later - in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

I actually contacted John Turner a couple of years back and he looked for any Gibsons but nothing showed up.

I am getting nearer though - I've recently found birth certificates for Gibson siblings: born in a Fairground in Bradford; born in a Feast ground in Ossett etc. The last one I found actually had my great grandfather's occupation as switchback buider!!

Jill
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Major brickwalls:
John Frith mge to Fanny, Bucks? c 1798
Bathsheba Boothroyd bp W Yks c1802
John Bishop bp E Yks c1758
Joseph Symonds mg to Sarah, prob Berks c 1735-40
John Horwood mg to Martha, Berks c 1735-40
Sarah Sculler bp  Berks area c 1675
Paul Phillips bp  Berks/Bucks c 1720
William Newell bp Berks/Bucks/Oxon c 1765
Richard Troughton mg to Jane, Westmoreland c 1732
Mary Simon bp Shrops c.1795
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