Gibbs Family Tree

Mary Grey

Female 1810 - 1857  (47 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Mary Grey was born on 25 Mar 1810 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died in Jul 1857 in Marylebone, London; was buried on 23 Jul 1857.

    Mary married Rev. John Hampden Gurney on 24 Oct 1839 in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. John (son of John Gurney and Maria) was born on 15 Aug 1802 in London; died on 8 Mar 1862 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Rev. Alfred Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire; died on 28 Nov 1898 in Roehampton, Surrey; was buried on 2 Dec 1898 in Surrey.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rev. Alfred Gurney Descendancy chart to this point (1.Mary1) was born on 14 Nov 1843 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire; died on 28 Nov 1898 in Roehampton, Surrey; was buried on 2 Dec 1898 in Surrey.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1851, St Marylebone, London
    • Residence: 1861, St Marylebone, London
    • Residence: 5 Apr 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Head

    Notes:

    Son of Rev. Hampden Gurney (sometime Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and Rector of St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, St. Marylebone), by Mary, 1st daughter of Henry Grey, a minister of St. Mary's, Edinburgh. Educated at King's College, London: matric. Oxford (Exeter College) 11 June 1862, BA 1866, MA1869. Of the Inner Temple 1867. Buried in Putney Vale Cemetery near Roehampton, Wandsworth. Memorial Inscription there. Will dated 17 August 1896, proved 16 January 1899.

    Ordained Deacon, 1873, Priest, 1875. Curate of St. Paul's, Brighton, 1873-79; Vicar of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, Westminster, 1879-98. Author of Vision of the Eucharist and Other Poems (1885); Our Catholic Inheritance (1888); A Ramble through the United States, priv. printed, 1886.

    Birth:
    BMD DECEMBER 1843 VOL 15 PAGE 162 LUTTERWORTH, LEICESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND

    Alfred married Alice Blanche Gibbs on 16 Aug 1866 in Wraxall, Somerset. Alice (daughter of William Gibbs, of Tyntesfield and Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey) was born on 27 Oct 1843 in Paddington, London; died on 12 Mar 1871 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; was buried on 17 Mar 1871 in Wraxall, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Cyril Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Mar 1868 in London; died on 2 Mar 1926 in Westminster, London; was buried on 6 Mar 1926 in Henlow, Bedfordshire.
    2. 4. William Hampden Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Feb 1870 in Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Somerset; died on 11 Mar 1903 in London.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Cyril Gurney Descendancy chart to this point (2.Alfred2, 1.Mary1) was born on 20 Mar 1868 in London; died on 2 Mar 1926 in Westminster, London; was buried on 6 Mar 1926 in Henlow, Bedfordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 31 1901, Sholden, Kent; Relation to Head of House: Head
    • Baptism: 15 Apr 1868, England
    • Residence: 2 Apr 1871, Wraxall, Somerset; Relation to Head of House: Grandson
    • Residence: 1881, Mortlake, Surrey
    • Residence: 5 Apr 1891, London; Relation to Head of House: Son
    • Departure: Mar 1897, South Africa
    • Arrival: 11 May 1897, England
    • Residence: 1901, Sholden, Kent; Age: 33; Relation to Head of House: Head
    • Residence: 2 1911, Henlow Grange, Henlow, Bedfordshire

    Notes:

    Educated at Winchester College, 1882-3; matric. at Oxford (Christ Church) 1887, BA and 3 Cl. History 1891. Died at his flat in London 2nd and was buried 6 March 1926 at Henlow, Bedfordshire where was his residence (Henlow Grange) since 1908. Memorial Inscription in Henlow churchyard. Will dated 15 March 1924, proved 23 July 1926.

    Partner in Thomson Hankey and Co. merchants in the City of London, 1896-1926, and head of the firm for some years up to his death.

    Director of the Indemnity Assurance Corporation, 1900-26 (chairman 1925-26). He had two sons and a daughter; his eldest son Christopher William Gurney was a partner in Thomson Hankey & Co. until his death. Christopher married Joan Doris Grenfell (see Burke's Peerage}, who was active in Women's Institutes and W.R.V.S. during World War II.

    They had two sons and a daughter; their eldest son Timothy was a Director of Thomson Hankey & Co. from 1947-76; their second son Jeremy was an Underwriting Agent in Price Forbes, Insurance Brokers; and their daughter Gillian married and emigrated with her husband to Ontario, Canadain 1948 (living 1980). Both sons are married and living.

    Cyril Gurney's daughter Alice was active in Women's Institute and Village Produce Association and died unmarried in 1969; his second son, John, was a student Land Agent when he died (1924).

    Cyril married Margaret Evelyn Trotter in 1894 in St. Peter's, Eaton Square, Westminster, London. Margaret (daughter of William Trotter and Mary Isabel Davies) was born in Apr 1869 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 4 Jan 1958 in 41 Sydney Building, Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Alice Ciceley Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Oct 1895 in Chelsea, London; died in Jun 1969 in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire; was buried in Hormead, Hertfordshire.
    2. 6. Christopher William Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Apr 1898 in Chelsea, London; died on 31 Aug 1939 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
    3. 7. John Hampden Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jan 1901 in Chelsea, London; died on 28 Jul 1924 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  Christopher William Gurney Descendancy chart to this point (3.Cyril3, 2.Alfred2, 1.Mary1) was born in Apr 1898 in Chelsea, London; died on 31 Aug 1939 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1901, Sholden, Kent; Age: 2; Relation to Head of House: Son
    • Departure: 11 Jan 1926, Avonmouth, England; Ship "Motagua" with wife & sister

    Christopher married Joan Doris Grenfell on 20 Apr 1920 in St George Hanover Square, London. Joan was born in Jul 1895 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire; died on 31 Jan 1958 in Ware, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Timothy John Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Oct 1921 in Paddington, London; died in Sep 2001 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; was buried in Hormead, Hertfordshire.
    2. 9. Jeremy Christopher Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Oct 1925; died on 10 Oct 1991 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk.
    3. 10. Gillian Mary Gurney  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Jun 1927 in Biggleswade, Cambridgeshire; died in 2005 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.