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  1. Charles Gibbons: Birth: 1 AUG 1827 in Co. Donegal, Ireland. Death: 8 OCT 1896 in Milford, MA

  2. Hugh GIBBONS: Birth: ABT MAY 1830 in Co. Donegal, Ireland. Death: 31 AUG 1891 in Milford, Worcester, MA


Notes
a. Note:   Gibbonses are Norman in origin. They are concentrated in Co. Mayo in Ireland.
 Have MacGibbon, Fitzgibbon.
 In Co. Limerick also.
  In treating of the surname Gibbons in Ireland it must first be mentioned that this is a very common indigenous name in England and in the course of the several plantations of English settlers in this country from 1600 onwards, as well as a result of business infiltration, it is inevitable that at least a small proportion of our Gibbonses must be of English stock. Having said that we may dismiss this element in the population and consider Irish families bearing the name. Strictly speaking, there are no native Irish families of Gibbons, if by Irish we mean Gaelic Irish. Our Gibbonses are Norman in origin but are now as completely Irish as any of Gaelic stock. Their origin is twofold, each quite distinct, having nothing in common beyond the fact that their descent was Norman Irish not Gaelic Irish. The Gibbons families of the present day are to be found concentrated in the very parts of the country in which they originated. The most numerous are those of Co. Mayo: the ancestors of these were first known as MacGibbon Burke, being a branch of the great Norman Irish sept (for sept it was to all intents and purposes) of Burke in Co. Mayo. They are called Mac Giobain in Irish just as if they were of Gaelic origin. Ballymacgibbon in Co. Mayo takes its name form them. The others are also associated with a particular county, in this case Co. Limerick. There, however, though also Mac Giobuin in Irish, they are usually Fitzgibbon in English, the Fitz being frequently dropped and the final S substituted for it in speech but seldom in writing. The head of this family in Co. Limerick was known as The White Knight being one of the three hereditary knights of Desmond, unique among British and Irish titles - the other two being the Knight of Kerry Irish titles - the other two being the Knight of Kerry and the Knight of Glin who are Fitzgeralds. Their territory prior to the upheaval of the seventeenth century was the south-eastern corner of Co. Limerick near Co. Cork. One of the Fitzgibbons (MacGibbon) was chief of Clangibbon in Co. Cork. John Gibbons (d. 1808), a Mayo landowner, took part in the 1798 Rising, was captured, outlawed and escaped to France. His son John was hanged at Westport in 1798, and another son, Edmund (d. 1809), of the Irish Legion, died of wounds. IN 1691 Thomas Gibbons, of Mayo, was also a notable outlaw. From the same stock came Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921), Archbishop of Baltimore, whose life work was in America. The best known of the Fitzgibbons was John Fitzgibbon (1749-1802), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whose pro-English activity at the time of the Union made him hated in his own day and his memory reviled since. Two Gerald Fitzgibbons, father and son (1793-1882 and 1837-1909), were outstanding members of the Irish Bar, while Edward Fitzgibbon (1803-1857) wrote several standard works on subjects connected with fishing.


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