Lyle Gibbs: Gibbs Family Tree

Gibbs Family Tree

1761 - 1839 (78 years)

Generation: 1

Lyle Gibbs 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.

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Baptism: 9 Jul 1761, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

5th son, Esq. of Genoa: merchant, bapitsed at Topsham 9 July 1761. Died unmarried in Genoa 1839, buried there 11 February 1839.

Lyle Gibbs of Genoa. In business in Italy from 1777 or 1778; partner in Heath & Co. Genoa, from 1794 (about) to 1814; stle of firm changed 1 May 1814 to Lyle Gibbs, and in 1820 to Gibbs & Co., which style it retained till 1864. See the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p.337 for its later history. A letter from him (17 November 1798) to Admiral Lord Nelson is in the British Museum (Addl. MSS., No. 34908, fo. 150). Portrait see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.