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children, but whilst at Quebec, Canada, in 1818, Gibbes married there bigamously on 22 May 1818, to Mary Ann Bell, daughter of
Matthew Bell (1769-184) a wealthy businessman. Apparently, he left her the following year and, not being prosecuted, returned to Elizabeth Davies. In a 'Journal in Retrospect' written around 1899 and based on his diaries, Stewart Marjoribanks Mowle (1822-1908), who knew Gibbes in Sydney and at Yarralumla in 1838-51, wrote of him as 'the reputed son of the Duke of York'. This belief took hold in Australia and in 1996 a descendant, Stephen Gibbes, wrote in the article just cited, that Gibbes's mother was Agnes Gibbes (1761-1843), the unmarried youngest daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes (1731-1815), and said that she met the Duke of York in Germany, he being in service on the Continent in 1786-7. Prime Minister
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424:"As collector of Customs at a salary of £1000 Gibbes found his department inadequate to cope with the growing demand of shipping and trade and he constantly appealed for more and better paid staff. He carried out his duties with more zeal than discretion and, when his suspicions were aroused , he seized whole cargoes which often led to tedious litigation. His accounts were always confused because of inefficient clerks and often showed him liable for surcharges which were removed only after long and acrimonious correspondence with the Board of Customs in London. All these irritations frayed his temper and he gained a reputation for irascibility."
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imprisonment. Following a Board of
Inquiry into the fraud the Executive Council directed that Colonel Gibbes 'be called upon to show cause why he should not be discharged from his office of Collector of Customs for neglect of duty'. Gibbes then retired in late 1859 to Yarralumla, which had been bought in 1837 by his son-in-law Sir
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Harriet grew up to be a cultivated and pious young woman. In 1837, she married into the colonial establishment when she wed
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By 1859 his department was long a reproach and a bye-word and in that year his son William John Gibbes (1815-1868), a bankrupt and notorious libertine with a number of illegitimate children, whose debts exceeded £20,000, was convicted of conspiring to defraud the Customs and sentenced to two years
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visits of Ludlam's was to do business in Sydney, which served as New South Wales' principal trading port, population centre and seat of government; but he also found time to socialise. On 1 October 1850, he married into Sydney's colonial establishment with his wedding to Fanny Gibbes. His wedding
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Colonel Gibbes took up a commission in 1819 as the Collector of Customs for Falmouth, Jamaica, but remained on the army's half-pay list, which meant that he could be recalled to active service in times of war. Then, from 1827 to 1833, he held the equivalent position of Collector in the major East
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Although Gibbes claimed to have married Elizabeth Davies in London in 1808, prior to the births of their first two children, as 'John Gibbes of St Paul, Covent Garden', he did not marry her, at St Andrew, Holborn, until 23 May 1814, and her parentage has not been ascertained. They had six further
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Incidentally, the Colonel's second daughter, Mary, had married the prominent New South Wales parliamentarian, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray (1810–1873) who had purchased Yarralumla in 1837. In July 1859, he sold the property to his brother-in-law Augustus Onslow Manby "Gussie" Gibbes (who had been
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to his brother-in-law, Augustus Onslow Manby Gibbes. Later that same year, Augustus' parents came to live with him at Yarralumla homestead. Eventually, in 1881, Augustus sold Yarralumla for 40,000 pounds to Frederick Campbell, a descendant of
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campaign, but an alarming number of British soldiers collapsed and died in their camps from a virulent form of malarial fever that they had contracted after the bombardment and capture of the strategic town of
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Her mother (one of Sir John's mistresses), Catherine Cain(e), the convict 'housekeeper' assigned to him at his Sydney residence. Catherine gave birth to a daughter by Sir John, Harriet Eliza Jamison, in 1819.
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of the 1850s − through the collection of import duties and other taxes liable on ship-borne cargoes. Thus, he played a significant role in the transformation of the
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Robert "Bobby" Gibbes. Two stained-glass windows, dedicated to their memories and bearing the Gibbes coat of arms, were also erected in the nave of the church.
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1144:'Our own illegitimate royalty, in
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863:Matilda Lavinia Gibbes (1826–1916)
417:Australian Dictionary of Biography
251:Australian Dictionary of Biography
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1274:. 25 November 1806. p. 1523.
1113:, vol. 1, no. 26, 2 October 1847.
978:"Gibbes, John George (1787–1873)"
634:. In Sydney in 1837, she married
290:Gibbes filled a vacancy with the
1755:Stackpool, Andrew (3 May 2007).
1546:"Funeral of Late Colonel Gibbes"
902:Members of the Berney family of
745:Mary "Minnie" Gibbes (1817–1858)
659:. In 1837, William John married
570:George Harvey Gibbes (1809–1883)
547:St John the Baptist Church, Reid
475:, now hangs in Admiralty House.
161:and which he held for 25 years.
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1727:Carman, Gerry (14 April 2007).
1109:'The Collector of Customs', in
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651:William John Gibbes (1815–1868)
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854:, NSW, in 1849. He contracted
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86:"John George Nathaniel Gibbes"
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1552:. 18 December 1873. p. 2
1438:Parliament of New South Wales
1254:. 30 March 1805. p. 390.
1234:. 17 March 1804. p. 329.
1172:Royal Mistresses and Bastards
1148:, 13 September 1994, page 12.
1078:. 27 December 1873. p. 5
1048:Parliament of New South Wales
918:Great grandson — Bobby Gibbes
530:Governor-General of Australia
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1676:Canberra Historical Journal
1664:. 15 March 1826. p. 3.
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1400:, 26 February 1859, page 2
1210:The Royal Military Calendar
807:Wellington's Botanic Garden
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1477:Governor General's website
1432:"Mr Michael Cullen Cotton"
1378:The Book of Sydney Suburbs
1314:. April 1811. p. 602.
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667:of St James, Sydney.
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431:Terence Aubrey Murray
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296:85th Regiment of Foot
292:40th Regiment of Foot
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1410:Bathurst Free Press
1111:Heads of the People
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1560:– via Trove.
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1291:The London Gazette
1271:The London Gazette
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1231:The London Gazette
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1146:The Canberra Times
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