This Memorial Plaque can be found on the south wall in St. Olave's church in Ramsey.
The memorial tablet has the following text:
'IN MEMORY OF GRESHAM
THORNLEY CUMMINGS GIBSON
WHO DIED AT HONG KONG
SEPT 22 1871- AGED 30 YRS.
ALSO OF HIS SISTER JANE
WIFE OF ROBERT HARTLEY
BROWNE WHO DIED AT RAMSEY
JULY 23 1875 - AGED 33 YRS.'
Jane Browne (nee Gibson) was born in 1843 to Thomas and Georgiann. Jane like her brother Gresham was born in Hatcham, Surrey, England.
Jane's father (Thomas Cummings) is recorded in the 1851 Census as a 'Colliery & Ship Owner' and it seems likely that it was shipping which brought about the Gibson's connection to the Isle of Man.
Jane married Robert Hartley Browne (the official records show Robert Henry Brown) on 18 August 1863 at Lezayre in the Isle of Man.
Source:the Isle of Man Monumental Inscriptions 1945 -
"Ballure Chapel...
...In memory of Jane Brown, second daugther of Thomas Cummings Gibson, who died July 23, 1875, in her 33 years. Also Susanna, eldest daughter of the above T.C. Gibson, who died at Ballaclown, Ramsey, on Sunday 6 June18[89] aged 52 years." (
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Ballure Chapel on the southern outskirts of the town of Ramsey was as a chapel of ease to Maughold prior to the building of St. Paul's in the centre of the town. (
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Gresham received his First Mates Certificate from The Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 on 18 January 1872. (
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On 31 March 1976 "Administration of the effects of Gresham Thornley Gibson late of Beach House Hammersmith in the County of Middlesex Mariner a Bachelor who died 23 September 1874 at Hong Kong in China was granted at the Principal Registry to Thomas George Gibson of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Solicitor the Brother." (The effects of Gresham amounted to £450).
There is no documentary evidence that Gresham ever visited or lived in the Isle of Man unlike his sisters Jane and Susanne.
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