Gibbs of the Grove Papers
Date(s): 1860s-1970s
Creator(s): Various
Scope & Content: Content includes financial and legal papers. account books, receipts and bills, diaries, private journals, poetry, autograph and address books, school text and exercise books, calling cards, social invitations, messages of condolence, correspondence between family members, from friends and business acquaintances, greeting cards, postcards, present lists, printed resources such as appliance instructions and books, sheet music and ephemera relating to wartime events, duties and rationing. Papers include Alice Gibb's records and ephemera retained from her time as Supervisor of the Melt Room at the National Shell Filling Station, Chilwell during the First World War.
For Gibbs photographs see PG/12147.
Language: English
Extent: 47 boxes
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FONDS
ID number: MS 09412
Record class: Private
Access conditions: No regulations or restrictions are implemented on this material. Advance notification of a research visit is advisable by emailing library@mnh.gov.im
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Museum 2:
- 'Miss Gibb Remembers: the story of the Gibb family of the Grove' (Text of lecture)
- Letter from Michael Cook, Liverpool to Stowell Kenyon (of Friends of the Manx Museum) and copy reply from same (Correspondence)
- 'A View of the Grove' (Text of lecture)
- Covering letter from Olive Williamson to Peter Hill-Heaton and her enclosed 'Ships of Duncan Gibb Line from Lloyd's registers' (covering letter; research notes)
- Subscription book for Ramsey Nurse Fund to provide a nurse for the poor of Ramsey with loose-leaf enclosures
- Lezayre Clothing Club account book with Lezayre Coal Fund entries from 1886 (Accounts, receipted bills)
- Pooildhooie Tennis Club account book recording receipts and expenditure (Accounts)
- Plan of the estate of Poplar Grove in the parish of Lezayre in the Isle of Man (estate plan)
- Genealogical notes on William Turnbull, father of Sarah who married Duncan Gibb of Gibb family of The Grove, Ramsey (research notes)
- Copy letter from Stowell Kenyon, Chairman, Friends of the Manx Museum, writing to A L M Cook of Hightown, Liverpool (copy letter)
- Evans family genealogical research notes
- 'Various Information of Ship Owner Duncan Gibb' (research notes)
Archives:
- Lezayre Clothing Club account book with Lezayre Coal Fund entries from 1886
- 'Various Information of Ship Owner Duncan Gibb'
- 'Miss Gibb Remembers: the story of the Gibb family of the Grove'
- Copy letter from Stowell Kenyon, Chairman, Friends of the Manx Museum, writing to A L M Cook of Hightown, Liverpool
- Genealogical notes on William Turnbull, father of Sarah who married Duncan Gibb of Gibb family of The Grove, Ramsey
- 'A View of the Grove'
- Subscription book for Ramsey Nurse Fund to provide a nurse for the poor of Ramsey with loose-leaf enclosures
- Pooildhooie Tennis Club account book recording receipts and expenditure
- Evans family genealogical research notes
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I have information about Duncan Gibb's Scottish provenance and a picture of his father William. When my laptop starts behaving properly here in Brisbane, I will write further! - Andrew Gibb Report this
I have information about Duncan Gibb's Scottish provenance and a picture of his father William. When my laptop starts behaving properly here in Brisbane, I will write further! - Andrew Gibb Report this
I have information about Duncan Gibb's Scottish provenance and a picture of his father William. When my laptop starts behaving properly here in Brisbane, I will write further! - Andrew Gibb Report this
I have information about Duncan Gibb's Scottish provenance and a picture of his father William. When my laptop starts behaving properly here in Brisbane, I will write further! - Andrew Gibb Report this