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OOh, thank you! Will investigate.
:-D

A little PS:
Looking at Rootgatherer's post of 12th Feb where she wonders whether John and Eliza are possible cousins?
Well, the family rumour [and we all know about family 'rumours'!!] is that they WERE in fact cousins. But the colourful version of that family rumour was that their respective surnames were GIBBON without the 's' and when they joined together they added the 's' to show that they were now a double act.
But, no - not quite.

PS #2:
We've located that burial as deffo our man.
Cousin [who is his great grand daughter and lives in London] and I will be visiting him next month to pay respects.
It's possible that he's in a multiple grave due to lack of funds by his poor widow left with three young daughters - we shall see.
I will report back with the final result.

Yes, JG is in a Common Grave with five others in the Brompton Cemetery. No headstone; probably due to lack of funds.
Here endeth the GIBBONS thread - for now!
Many thanks to all who helped on this one.
:-D :-D

So glad that you have found him

I Emily Eliza's DC now: died on 25th July 1912 @ 128a Lancaster Road, London aged 69.

I've looked at Deceased Online for her burial [that's where I found her husband in Brompton Cemetery] but nothing comes up.

Please can you see her burial, presumably in London?

Big thanx.
:-)

Well, she was 'hiding' in Kensal Green Cemetery. Over the years, her first names have morphed from Eliza Emily to Emily Eliza with Emmeline Eliza in the 1911 census.

So, I'll close this thread again.

:-) :-)

I've come back to this thread because cousin and I will be visiting her above great grandparents' graves in London at the end of this month. We know that he is in a pauper's grave but hoping for a gravestone for her, so digits crossed.

Will report back.

Thanx to all of you who helped on this one.
:-)

Had another look at this one o/b of cousin. The death announcement in the paper led me to wonder whether poor John's father might have had some standing to be able to place the notice.
John's father Charles was a tailor [and his father before him, too] and in the 1891 census he is "Living on His own Means" with a Housekeeper. In 1896, he left £4,500 - not bad going for a tailor. He is buried in Kings Sutton and so we're hoping that his headstone may reveal more details ………….
We like tramping around cemeteries and graveyards ……………….. :-D :-D

And the wonderful thing is that they never were GIBBON without the 'S'. They were always GIBBONS, and cousins too.
There goes another family myth!
:-D

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75665946/charles-henry-gibbons

[No photo of Charles's stone ]

Charles Henry Gibbons
Birth 1815
Kings Sutton, South Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England
Death 10 Mar 1896 (aged 80–81)
Kings Sutton, South Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England
Burial
Ss Peter and Paul Churchyard
Kings Sutton, South Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England
Memorial ID 75665946 ·

Tailor by trade.
Family Members

Parents
Thomas Gibbons [There's a photo of this stone ]
1785–1843

Eleanor Owen Gibbons
1785–1875

Spouse
Ann Sumners Gibbons
1815–1883 (m. 1834)

Children

Thomas Gibbons [there's a photo of his stone ]
1844–1896

Charles Edward Gibbons [ there's a photo of his stone ]
1853–1939