Hi Robert,
Your branch is really much more elusive than the one we have been talking about.
In the first place (as I expect you realize) there are two Henry Gibbinses both born about 1800-02 both with wives named Ann.
One of them, Henry Gibbins (bap. 21.xii.1800), a Grazier of sheep, married his own cousin Ann Jane Johnson (bap. 27.vi.1802) on 12.ix.1822 at Horninghold: her mother Mary Gibbins married (2nd) Thomas Johnson (26.xi.1798) - and Mary's brother Thomas (30.xii.1756-24.iii.1827) was the father of the Henry Gibbins whom Ann Jane married. These, as you rightly say, are NOT your Henry and Ann, and in the 1841 and 1851 censuses (both) they are living in Church Street, Hallaton.
Your Henry and Ann are the ones that are in Tugby in both 1841 and 1851. In 1841 they are living next door to Henry's brother Robert Gibbins and his family as follows:
'No. 2'
Henry Gibbins 35 Ag lab y
Ann Gibbins 35 y
Elizabeth Gibbins 8 y
William Gibbins 4 y
Francis Gibbins 1 y
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Robert Gibbins 30 Ag lab y
Sarah Gibbins 25 y
Mary Gibbins 4 y
Sarah Gibbins 2 y
and the 1851 census has Henry and Ann with children William (14), Francis (10), Mary (8 ), Edward (7), Jane (4) and Ann (1), also at Tugby. BUT I think it might be Henry and Robert's parents, William Gibbins and Elizabeth Brewster, who are in Hallaton in the 1841 census:
1841: Hallaton, Gibbins's Lodge
William Gibbins 70 Ag lab y
Elizabeth Gibbins 65 n
// Mary Cursley 14 n
These two married at Medbourne in 1799. As their eldest son Thomas died an infant (10.xi.1800-28.xii.1800), Henry (3.xi.1801) was presumably the eldest son, and heir.
The top of the tree you have described stands with Thomas Gibbins and Jane Freestone, marrying at Tugby in 1766. I have been through many of the Gibbins wills for Medbourne and Hallaton, and the only Thomas Gibbins I can see among them that might fit into this time-frame is Thomas baptized Medbourne 19.iv.1744, who would therefore be about right to marry Jane, at Tugby, in 12.xi.1766. Perhaps Tugby was her parish, and perhaps the houses occupied by Robert and Henry in 1851 and 1841 were ultimately Freestone rather than Gibbins hereditaments.
IF he is the right one (and I'm not saying he is!!!!) then he would be the son of Thomas Gibbins bap. Medbourne 19.vi.1713, and his wife Jane Bond of Glooston (bap. 9.vii.1721).
To take Jane Bond (perhaps the mother of your Thomas) first, she is the elder of two daughters of the second marriage of John Bond of Glooston (bap. 5.iv.1675, d.1746), and John is the son of Edward Bond (b.c.1640, died Glooston 15.vi.1706 - tombstone) and his wife Ann, who died in 1719. There are wills for John and his mother Ann. John married first Abigail, who died 5.viii.1707, having two children Ann (1707) and Elizabeth. John's daughter Ann married William Tebbatt of Glooston and had about 10 children by him - see Tebbatt gravestones at Glooston. After Abigail died, John Bond married Marcy Sharman (born 4.i.1697, bap. 8.i.1697 at Weston-by-Welland, one of at least four children born 1692-1697 to John Sharman (c. 1670, died Cranoe 1733). Sarah Sharman must have died at or soon after the birth of Marcy, because John Sharman then married Catherine, and had 13 more children by her (births 1698-1720) before drying up. Marcy married John Bond at Glooston on 21.iv.1720, and the two daughters Jane and Mary came in 1721 and 1725 (21.xi) respectively. Mary married James Tebbatt at Glooston on 17.xii.1744, and James was the brother of the William Tebbatt who had married her half-sister Ann Bond back in 1725. But it was Jane Bond who on 14.iii.1736 at Glooston married Thomas Gibbins, who was born at Medbourne 19.vi.1713 and died there 1757. And it's because he is of Medbourne, and not of Hallaton, that I think its quite likely that he IS the father of your Thomas who, as you say, married Jane Freestone at Tugby in 1766, but afterwards lived at Medbourne.
Thomas Gibbins 1713 of Medbourne is the son of Henry Gibbins of Medbourne, who left a Leicestershire will dated 1735. He was married to an Elizabeth, and his children were Sarah (5 or 8.vi.1707), William (6.ix.1708-d.1736 & a will), Ann (17.ii.1711, married John Wade junr 15.x.1734, Medbourne); Henry (24 or 29.iii.1709, d. 1747 (will)), married Mary; Elizabeth (29.i.1714); Thomas (19.vi.1713, Medbourne) and apparently lastly John, who married Amy Barker of Great Illsborough at Stoke Albany in 1742.
And if that is right, it means that the siblings of Thomas who married Jane Freestone were, John Gibbins (26.vii.1738); Elizabeth (11.vi,.1740); Henry (10.vi.1742, d.1779 (will)), who married Elizabeth Lummis of Broughton, Northants, at Cransley 17.iii.1769; William (4.ix.1749); Jane (24.xii.1752); and John (25.vi.1755). Among these, Henry Gibbins and Elizabeth Lummis are my 5xgreat-grandparents.
Henry who died in 1735 was the eldest named son of Henry Gibbins who died in 1692 (will), and he was the son of Henry Gibbins (d. Hallaton 1679 (will)) who was married to Alis. Before that the evidence is a bit more patchy, but the Hallaton ancestry goes back to the 16th century at least. (see my previous post). These wills are in the Leicester Register Office in Wigston.
But - you can't just take my word for it!
best wishes!
Mercian
