As contact is made with our relatives, both known and long lost, this should become a collaborative effort, with contributions of photos, memoirs, family stories, etc. provided by all.
As William and Mary had twelve children, there are many branches in the Australian family. If you make a response, could you please acknowledge which branch you belong to and tag it accordingly. As a starting point, here is a list of their children.
Future posts will contain more information on each of them. I've done my best to get it right, but if you see an error, please let me know.
Regards, Denece
Children of Mary Ann Timoney and William Nibbs:
- Mary Ann Nibbs - 21 June 1846 (Westbury, Tas.) -2 March 1925 (Lilydale, Tas.)
- Elizabeth Nibbs - 23 Nov 1847(Westbury, Tas.) - 24 Jan 1883 (Pardoe, Pt Sorrell, Tas.)
- John Nibbs 23 March 1849 (Westbury, Tas.) – 9 Sept 1894 (Duck River, Tas.)
- Sarah Nibbs - 15 Sept 1850 (Westbury, Tas.) – 7 June 1932 (Hobart, Tas.)
- William Nibbs - 22 July 1852 (Westbury,Tas.) -14 January 1918 (Launceston, Tas.)
- Susannah Nibbs - 28 Dec 1854 (Wesley Vale, Tas.) - 4 Oct 1938 (Devonport, Tas.)
- Francis Nibbs - 5 July 1856 (Port Sorrell, Tas.) – 28 Jan 1916 (Latrobe, Tas.)
- Job Linton Nibbs - 13 Oct 1857 (Port Sorrell, Tas.) – 29 Nov 1941 (Devonport, Tas.)
- Thomas Henry Nibbs - 16 Aug 1859 (Port Sorrell, Tas.) -31 August 1947 (Enfield, NSW)
- James Nibbs- 5 March 1861 (Port Sorrell, Tas.) – 11 Oct 1899 (Kindred, Tas.)
- Catherine Laura Nibbs -18 July 1863 (Port Sorrell, Tas.) – 30 March 1891 (Evandale, Tas.)
- Alice Nibbs 22 Feb 1867 - (Port Sorrell, Tas.) – 25 June 1867 (Port Sorrell, Tas.)
Denece, congratulations on a wonderfully informative account of William Nibbs. They had a tough time of it in those days! I am descended from William's brother John Nibbs (1816-1873) who was one of my great-great-grandfathers on my mother's side of the family. John married Susannah Watson and one of their children was Jane Nibbs (1850-1911) who married Joseph John Whebby Abbott (1851-1919). Their son, Sydney Abbott was my grandfather but I never knew him because Sydney died before I was born, and any family documentation/photographs relevant to the Nibbs/Knibbs link do not appear to have survived within our side of the family. So it was great to read your blog posts. From research that I have done on some of my other ancestors, you are absolutely right that those working in the agricultural community in the 10-30 years after the end of the Napoleonic wars during the mid 1800s had a very difficult time of it, and the Swing riots were one consequence of these hard times.
ReplyDeleteOne more recent Australian link that existed within another line in my family might be of passing interest to you. I've written it up at my blog at http://chrispaynebooks.com/blog/the-little-digger-william-morris-billy-hughes-a-family-connection/