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Whaling ancestors via the Gibson-Beautyman line?
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posted Sunday, 19 February 2006
Thanks to a very helpful contact from Maureen via this MyRoots blog, I have been able to make some links further back in my GIBSON line to BEAUTYMANs of Norfolk, possibly involved in the whaling industry, but certainly mariners of some kind.
My great-grandmother Phoebe Caroline GIBSON married Frederick EPHGRAVE (born illegitimately as Frederick Hipgrave SCRIVENER) in June 1896 in Shoreditch. Phoebe was the daughter of William Joseph James GIBSON.
Great-great-grandfather William JJ GIBSON is variously described as an Overmantel Maker, Looking Glass Frame Maker, Looking Glass Frame Carver and Cabinet Maker. He was born in Islington in July 1856 and married Phoebe Virginia WAKEFIELD in 1877. They had six children in all, including Phoebe Caroline, and lived all their married lives in London.
William's parents were William GIBSON, born 1835 in North Shields and Caroline HOLLAND (b. Clerkenwell 1832). 3xgreat-grandfather William is described as a Frame Maker, aged 16, on the 1851 census, where he is living with his parents and siblings in Bethnal Green. Subsequent censuses and certificates show him as a Looking Glass Frame Maker or Carver like his son. William and Caroline GIBSON had nine children in all, including a son with the unusual name of Wrightson or Wrighton (transcribed both ways in the censuses).
The 1851 census shows 3xgreat-grandfather William GIBSON living in Bethnal Green with parents Wrightson GIBSON (born around 1815 in North Shields, a Looking Glass Frame Maker) and Margaret, born around 1810 in Tynemouth, Northumberland. The St Hilda, South Shields, parish register index online includes a marriage record between Wrightson GIBSON and Margaret BEAUTYMAN, on 9 November 1834. It seems they moved to London sometime in the early 1840s, as their son Wrightson was born there in 1844, whilst their older children (William, Cuthbert and Margaret) were all born in North Shields.
I haven't found any further details of Wrightson GIBSON's birth and parentage yet, but Margaret BEAUTYMAN's birth years given in the 1851-1871 censuses tie up with a christening record in the IGI for October 1810 in Christ Church, Tynemouth, daughter of Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN and Margaret. My contact Maureen's research now comes into its own, with details of Cuthbert, his wife Margaret SHORT and their seven children. According to her, Cuthbert was christened in 1778, and married Margaret SHORT at Christ Church Tynemouth in 1797. The 1841 census gives Cuthbert's occupation as Mariner/Officer in HM Customs. Cuthbert was son of another Cuthbert, born around 1748, and a Master Mariner listed in the Newcastle Custom House Records. This Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN, my 6xgreat-grandfather, was a whaler.
Both the BEAUTYMANs and the GIBSONs seem to have had 'family occupations' for 2-3 generations or more; the GIBSON males were all involved in looking glass frame making or cabinetry in some way, whilst the BEAUTYMAN males were 'at sea'. I wonder what Margaret BEAUTYMAN made of the change in family trade as well as the move from the Northumberland coast (which was probably rather a tough place to work at the time) to what were essentially very poor areas of London just as Queen Victoria was coming to the throne.
I'm very grateful to have had so much rich information from Maureen. I now need to do some more tracking of the GIBSONs in Northumberland, and find out more about the places they and the BEAUTYMANs lived in that area.
My great-grandmother Phoebe Caroline GIBSON married Frederick EPHGRAVE (born illegitimately as Frederick Hipgrave SCRIVENER) in June 1896 in Shoreditch. Phoebe was the daughter of William Joseph James GIBSON.
Great-great-grandfather William JJ GIBSON is variously described as an Overmantel Maker, Looking Glass Frame Maker, Looking Glass Frame Carver and Cabinet Maker. He was born in Islington in July 1856 and married Phoebe Virginia WAKEFIELD in 1877. They had six children in all, including Phoebe Caroline, and lived all their married lives in London.
William's parents were William GIBSON, born 1835 in North Shields and Caroline HOLLAND (b. Clerkenwell 1832). 3xgreat-grandfather William is described as a Frame Maker, aged 16, on the 1851 census, where he is living with his parents and siblings in Bethnal Green. Subsequent censuses and certificates show him as a Looking Glass Frame Maker or Carver like his son. William and Caroline GIBSON had nine children in all, including a son with the unusual name of Wrightson or Wrighton (transcribed both ways in the censuses).
The 1851 census shows 3xgreat-grandfather William GIBSON living in Bethnal Green with parents Wrightson GIBSON (born around 1815 in North Shields, a Looking Glass Frame Maker) and Margaret, born around 1810 in Tynemouth, Northumberland. The St Hilda, South Shields, parish register index online includes a marriage record between Wrightson GIBSON and Margaret BEAUTYMAN, on 9 November 1834. It seems they moved to London sometime in the early 1840s, as their son Wrightson was born there in 1844, whilst their older children (William, Cuthbert and Margaret) were all born in North Shields.
I haven't found any further details of Wrightson GIBSON's birth and parentage yet, but Margaret BEAUTYMAN's birth years given in the 1851-1871 censuses tie up with a christening record in the IGI for October 1810 in Christ Church, Tynemouth, daughter of Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN and Margaret. My contact Maureen's research now comes into its own, with details of Cuthbert, his wife Margaret SHORT and their seven children. According to her, Cuthbert was christened in 1778, and married Margaret SHORT at Christ Church Tynemouth in 1797. The 1841 census gives Cuthbert's occupation as Mariner/Officer in HM Customs. Cuthbert was son of another Cuthbert, born around 1748, and a Master Mariner listed in the Newcastle Custom House Records. This Cuthbert BEAUTYMAN, my 6xgreat-grandfather, was a whaler.
Both the BEAUTYMANs and the GIBSONs seem to have had 'family occupations' for 2-3 generations or more; the GIBSON males were all involved in looking glass frame making or cabinetry in some way, whilst the BEAUTYMAN males were 'at sea'. I wonder what Margaret BEAUTYMAN made of the change in family trade as well as the move from the Northumberland coast (which was probably rather a tough place to work at the time) to what were essentially very poor areas of London just as Queen Victoria was coming to the throne.
I'm very grateful to have had so much rich information from Maureen. I now need to do some more tracking of the GIBSONs in Northumberland, and find out more about the places they and the BEAUTYMANs lived in that area.
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