First Generation
1. Abraham1 Gibbs birth date unknown.
Abraham Gibbs had the following child:
2
i.
Mary Elizabeth Catherine2 Gibbs was born in Naples, Italy October 1792.
Mary died 21/01/1878 in London, at 85 years of age. She married Lieutenant-General Charles Ashe
à Court in Palermo, Sicily, 10/05/1815. Charles was born in Heytesbury, Wiltshire 17/06/1785. Charles(16) was the son of William Peirce Ashe à Court 1st Baronet
and Laetitia Wyndham. Charles died 19/04/1861 in London, at 76 years of age. He was christened in St. George's
Hanover Square, February 1786. He re-married Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, 7/07/1819.
Charles Ashe a Court Esq and Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs, having been married at Palermo in Sicily with all the formality which
circumstances permitted and the same duly attested, yet to remove every shade of doubt, if any such exist, from any constitution of the law
of England of the validity of the said marriage, were married in this Church by licence 7 July 1819.
He was listed as head of household in the 1851 census in Ammington Hall, Ammington, Warwickshire. He was listed as head
of household in the 1861 census in Ammington Hall, Ammington, Warwickshire. (See Lieutenant-General
Charles Ashe à Court for the continuation of this line.)
According to conflicting evidence, she married Lieutenant-General Charles Ashe à Court in Heytesbury, Wiltshire,
7/07/1819. Charles Ashe a Court Esq and Mary Elizabeth Catherine Gibbs, having been married at Palermo in Sicily with all the formality
which circumstances permitted and the same duly attested, yet to remove every shade of doubt, if any such exist, from any constitution of
the law of England of the validity of the said marriage, were married in this Church by licence 7 July 1819.
She was listed as a resident in the census report in Ammington Hall, Ammington, Warwickshire, 30/03/1851. She was listed
as head of household in the 1871 census in 4 Halkin Terrace, Chelsea, London. Remarried at Heytesbury 'for greater security'
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