Mrs Benjamin Gibbons
(1828-1910)
16 May 1862
Volume 6, page 313, sitting number 8120.
Born on 12 January 1828, Charlotte Jane Skipworth was the daughter of George Skipworth of Moortown House, Kelsey, Lincolnshire, and his wife Amelia Margaretta née Dixon. She was baptised at St Mary's in South Kelsey on 14 April 1828.
On 15 May 1851 at South Kelsey in Lincolnshire she married the Reverend Benjamin Gibbons, MA, 'the only surviving son of John Gibbons, Esq., of Regent's-park, London. From his father Benjamin Gibbons had inherited a share in an ironworks founded by his grandfather and was thus in possession of a sizeable private income.
The family appear on the 1891 census living at Waresley House at Hartlebury near Kidderminster, SW of Birmingham. The household included two unmarried sons (aged 32 and 22) and four unmarried daughters (aged between 29 and 20). The census also lists six servants, including a butler and a footman.
Mrs Charlotte Jane Gibbons of Waresley House, Hartlebury, and of 16 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, London, died at Waresley House on 10 March 1910 at the age of 82. She left an estate valued at £6082.
'DEATH OF MRS GIBBONS — We regret to state that Mrs Charlotte Jane Gibbons, wife of the Rev. Benjamin Gibbons, of Waresley House, Hartlebury, died there on the 10th inst. The deceased lady, born in 1824 [sic], was daughter of the late Mr George Skipworth, of Moortown [sic] House, Lincolnshire, and in 1851 she was married to the Rev. B. Gibbons. The eldest son of the marriage is Mr John Skipworth Gibbons, of Boddington Manor' and Mr Leonard Gibbons, of Uckington, is another son' (Gloucestershire Echo, 14 March 1910).
'FUNERAL OF MRS GIBBONS — There was a large congregation at the Stourport churchyard at the funeral of Mrs Gibbons, wife of the Rev. Benjamin Gibbons, of Waresley, who was for forty years the vicar of Stourport, and who has almost entirely built the handsome new church there. The mourners included Mr Belville Stanier, MP, the rector of Great Witley, and the vicar of St George's, Kidderminster, each of whom married a daughter. The body was laid to rest in a new grave dug near the chancel, and as the ground had not been consecrated a dedication service was performed by special sanction of the Bishop of Worcester by Canon Robertson, rector of Hartlebury' (Gloucestershire Echo, 16 March 1910).