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Robert Lyle

Male 1672 - 1712  (40 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Robert Lyle was born in 1672 in Topsham, Devon; died in 1712 in Topsham, Devon.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Christening: 7 Oct 1672, Topsham, Devon

    Family/Spouse: Mary Downe. Mary (daughter of Nicholas Downe and Frances Pearce) was born in 1677 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Sarah Lyle  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Dec 1701 in Topsham, Devon.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sarah Lyle Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born on 9 Dec 1701 in Topsham, Devon.

    Notes:

    Daughter and coheir of Robert Lyle of Topsham, by Mary, daughter of Nicholas Downe. She married a third time to Robert Framingham.

    Sarah married Unknown Ewings before 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Sarah married Abraham Gibbs, of Topsham on 4 Mar 1724/25 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Abraham (son of Abraham Gibbs, of Topsham and Tryphaena Rowe) was born on 8 Mar 1686 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 20 Sep 1726 in Topsham, Devon; was buried on 20 Sep 1726 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Captain John Gibbs, of Topsham  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1725 in Topsham, Devon; died on 20 Jul 1774 in At Sea.

    Sarah married Robert Framingham in Mar 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Captain John Gibbs, of Topsham Descendancy chart to this point (2.Sarah2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1725 in Topsham, Devon; died on 20 Jul 1774 in At Sea.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Sea Capitain
    • Baptism: 19 Jan 1726, Topsham, Devon

    Notes:

    Baptised at Topsham 19 January 1725. Died at sea 20 July 1774. Will dated 22 June 1773, proved 3 November 1778 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

    His home after marriage was in Shapter Street, Topsham. Will proved by Elizabeth his widow; George Abraham Gibbs and Antony Gibbs certify. Party to a deed with his wife, her neice Elizabeth Roper, and Nathaniel George Petre, 11 December 1765.

    John married Elizabeth Meachin on 13 Jan 1751/52. Elizabeth (daughter of William Meachin and Elizabeth Bury) was born before 1731; died in 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Elizabeth Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1752; died on 19 Apr 1840 in Ilfracombe, Devon.
    2. 5. John Meachin Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1755; died after 1789.
    3. 6. Captain William Gibbs, of Topsham  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1757 in Topsham, Devon; died in 1830 in Topsham, Devon; was buried in 1830 in Topsham, Devon.
    4. 7. Abraham Gibbs, of Palermo  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Sep 1758 in Topsham, Devon; died on 15 Jul 1816 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy; was buried in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
    5. 8. George Gibbs, Lieut.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1761 in Topsham, Devon; died in 1793 in Jamaica.
    6. 9. Lyle Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1761 in Topsham, Devon; died in Feb 1839 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; was buried on 11 Feb 1839 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy.
    7. 10. Thomas Gibbs, 2nd Lieut. RN  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1767 in Topsham, Devon; died in 1796 in West Indies.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Elizabeth Gibbs Descendancy chart to this point (3.John3, 2.Sarah2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1752; died on 19 Apr 1840 in Ilfracombe, Devon.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 30 Nov 1752, Topsham, Devon

    Notes:

    Baptised at Topsham 30 November 1752. Died childless at Ilfracombe on the 19 (or 20) April 1840. Will dated 2 November 1839, proved 17 June 1840 in the Archdeaconry Court of Barnstaple.

    Elizabeth married James Richards, of Abbot's Leigh about 1793. James died in Aug 1829. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 6.  Captain William Gibbs, of Topsham Descendancy chart to this point (3.John3, 2.Sarah2, 1.Robert1) was born in 1757 in Topsham, Devon; died in 1830 in Topsham, Devon; was buried in 1830 in Topsham, Devon.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Occupation: Officer in the Navy
    • Baptism: 19 Jun 1757, Topsham, Devon

    Notes:

    Officer in the Navy, baptised at Topsham 19 June 1757. Died 1830 and buried there.

    His home after marriage was in Shapter Street., Topsham, but a different house to his father's. He and his brother John and their father are described as 'mariners' in a deed of 1788 ('Aldenham Genealogical Collections, p. 165) and he and his brothers John and Thomas in the deed of 1789 referred to below under Lieutenant George Gibbs. He certainly was a trading ship-captain, but the evidence is missing on which (following the old editions) he is described in the chart as an officer in the navy. His death in 1830 ended the family connection of five generations with Topsham.

    Family/Spouse: Susanna Ley. Susanna (daughter of Thomas Ley, Rev) was born in 1766; died on 3 May 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. William Heny Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Jun 1791 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 9 Dec 1858 in Clyst St George, Devon; was buried in Clyst St George, Devon.
    2. 12. John Ley Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Jun 1793 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 8 Nov 1837 in Manchester, Lancashire; was buried on 13 Nov 1837 in St Peters, Blackley, Lancashire.
    3. 13. Frances Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Apr 1797; died on 16 Jan 1847; was buried in Tiverton, Devon.
    4. 14. Thomas Lyle Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1799 in Topsham, Devon; died on 4 Mar 1814; was buried in Topsham, Devon.
    5. 15. Mary Matilda Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Apr 1801 in Topsham, Devon; died on 8 Jan 1877; was buried in Tiverton, Devon.
    6. 16. Abraham Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Aug 1805; died in Jan 1806; was buried in Topsham, Devon.
    7. 17. Charles Gibbs, of Genoa  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 May 1808 in Topsham, Devon; died on 7 Dec 1857 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; was buried on 14 Dec 1857 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy.

  3. 7.  Abraham Gibbs, of Palermo Descendancy chart to this point (3.John3, 2.Sarah2, 1.Robert1) was born on 10 Sep 1758 in Topsham, Devon; died on 15 Jul 1816 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy; was buried in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Baptism: 10 Sep 1758, Topsham, Devon

    Notes:

    Abraham Gibbs, Esq., of Palermo, merchant. Died 15 July 1816 at Palermo and buried there.

    In business in Italy and Sicily from 1775 till he died; at Leghorn at least till 1788; later at Palermo where he traded under the style of Gibbs & Co., with a branch at Naples. He was Banker to the Court of the Two Sicilies at Naples, Consul at Palermo for the U.S. of America, Paymaster to the British Forces in the Mediterranean. A friend of Admiral Lord Nelson and agent for the management of his estates at Bronte, Sicily, and after his death to his brother and successor, Earl Nelson, D.D. A letter from Lord Nelson to Abraham which is preserved in the Aldenham collection of Family letters, is printed in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs and there are more letters from Nelson to him in published collections of Nelson's letters and many references to him in letters from Nelson to others (see Additions of 1927 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). Abraham died by suicide in his house in Palermo, and his firm, which had hitherto prospered well, was liquidated by his nephew and partner, William H. Gibbs, Portrait, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

    Abraham married Mary Elizabeth Douglas in Aug 1790 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Mary (daughter of Sir James Douglas, of Faringdon and Isobel Douglas) was born on 10 Sep 1753 in England; died on 4 Mar 1797 in Naples, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 18. Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Oct 1793 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy; died on 21 Jan 1878 in 29 Lowndes Street, Chelsea, London; was buried in Woking, Surrey.


 

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