Lt. Col. William Barton Gibbons

One of a family group awarded the compensation for Sandfords on Barbados.

The group comprises: Robert K Gibbons (almost certainly Robert Kenrick Gibbons 1797-1880), William B. Gibbons (almost certainly William Barton Gibbons 1802-1872), both Robert Kenrick and William Barton being the sons of Robert Gibbons (1756-1805) and Margaret Crookenden, and grandsons of Sir John Gibbons 2nd bart.; Emily Fitzgerald, almost certainly née Gibbons, the sister of Robert Gibbons 1756-1805 and aunt of the two preceding men; Martha Taylor, almost certainly Martha Tayler née Gibbons, the sister of Robert Kenrick Gibbons and William Barton Gibbons; Caroline, Mary A and Georgiana Gibbons, probably the infant children of Robert Kenrick Gibbons, although not identified as such in the claim; and Mary Kingolay, presumably a transcription error for Kingslay, Kingsley or Kinglay, who has not been further identified.

Mary Kingolay was Mary Kingsley, identified in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register; Martha Tayler was spelled Taylor in the Register.

William B. Gibbons married Mary Bishop Skeete, 3rd daughter of John Brathwaite Skeete, who was President of the Barbados Council (1813-34?), and Mary Skeete (1780-1862) [q.v.]. She appears to have died at the Mangrove Plantation, Barbados, 5 July 1843.

His second wife, Ann Maxwell Hinds Jackman, was the daughter of John Abel Jackman and unknown (?). They married on 3 April 1845.

The children of William Barton Gibbons and Mary Bishop Skeete were Emily Craven Gibbons (?-13 June 1866) and Lt.-Col. Frederick FitzRoy Gibbons (12 November 1841-17 May 1914). With Ann Jackman, the children were Marie Louise Gibbons, Elizabeth Maxwell Gibbons (?-5 August 1923), John Abel Gibbons (31 August 1854-1894) and Charles Kenrick Gibbons (9 May 1856-15 April 1918).

Gibbons was a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Barbados.

T71/897 Barbados claim no. 2814 (Sandfords).

TNA T71/549, 1832 Barbados Slave Register, p. 265.

James C. Brandow (comp.), Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (1983), p. 508.

Family of William Barton Gibbons