Thomas Edwin GIBSON
(1903-1936)
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Grave No: 348;
Estimated Year of Birth: 1903;
Date of Death: 1st April 1936;
Age: 33 years;
Latitude: 53.72035;
Longitude: -0.85149;
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Condition: Sound & in situ;
Height (mm): 290 mm;
Width (mm): 970 mm;
Length (mm): 2140 mm;
Mason: TASKER.
IN /
LOVING MEMORY /
OF /
THOMAS EDWIN, /
DEARLY BELOVED AND ONLY SON OF /
EDWIN & ANNIE GIBSON, /
DIED APRIL 1st 1936, /
AGED 33 YEARS. /
AND HIS FATHER, /
EDWIN GIBSON /
DIED FEBRUARY 7th 1974, /
AGED 95. /
ALSO HIS MOTHER /
ANNIE ALICE GIBSON /
DIED SEPTEMBER 12th 1957, /
AGED 77. /
AT REST.
A Sad Tale - Thomas Edwin Gibson
A Sad Tale - Thomas Edwin Gibson
Sadly the Gibsons have an unhappy story to tell. Thomas Edwin Gibson, born 1902, was the only son of Edwin Gibson, coal dealer, and his wife Annie Alice, née Goulding, both from Scarborough. Thomas took his own life in 1st April 1936, and was found by his father in the orchard behind their house after he didn't come home that evening.
There are newspaper reports in the usual papers, the more sensational ones in Hull Daily Mail (of course), reporting the inquest, held on Friday 3rd April. The coroner decided, kindly, that Thomas took his life while of unsound mind. His father reported that his son had complained about the weather a lot during the winter, coming home late from work as a milk dealer wet through. I saw in the previous census 1921, that he had been a young civilian clerk in the technical department at RAF aerodrome in Howden, and had presumably been made unemployed after its closure, following the R38 disaster. It must have been difficult to find work during the Great Depression....
His parents lived to riper ages. There's a family tree on Ancestry which has photos purporting to be of the three of them but no provenance for them. One says it's of Thomas, right era, he's sturdy in jodhpurs, boots and flat cap like a farmer, pretty well equipped for an outdoor life. The parents' photo looks as if they are celebrating a significant wedding anniversary, in the 1940s or 50s, big cake and several interesting bottles to hand.....
Not sure what happened to Alice.... (J.I.)
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