Birth: January-March 1862 Wingham, Kent, UK
Father: Edward Gibbs 1835-1883
Mother: Emma Ladd Haydon 1834-1881
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1899 Steyning, Sussex, UK
Husband: Leonard Marden 1870-1918
Death: After 1901
Unknown
Birth of Jessie Gibbs in FreeBMD in January-March 1862 in Estry (2a 26? - last digit illegible) which included Wingham.
In the 1871 census as Jessie Gibbs aged 7, born in Wingham, Kent, and living with her parents (Edward and Emma), two brothers (Edward and Henry), three sisters (Ada, Catherine, and Emma), uncle (Henry Gibbs), and a servant (Eliza Cox aged 15 and born in Preston, Kent) at Jubilee Cottage, Bridge, Kent.
In the 1881 census as Jessie Gibbs aged 18, born in Wingham, Kent, no occupation, and a visitor with Sarah Hodges (aged 62, born in Stelling, Kent, widowed and a butcher), her three sons (Charles aged 32, Edward aged 31 and Edwin T aged 22, all born in Bridge, unmarried and also butchers), and daughter (Nina Hodges aged 19, born in Bridge, unmarried, and no occupation) in Bridge Street, Bridge, Kent.
In the 1891 census as Jessie Gibbs aged 25, born in Wingham, Kent, single, employed as a domestic housekeeper and living with her married brother (Edward), his son (Edward), two daughters (Lillian and Jessie) and a servant (Mary Clarke aged 18 and born in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire) at the Swan Inn, High Street, Thame, Oxfordshire.
Marriage of Jessie Gibbs and Leonard Marden in FreeBMD in April-June 1899 in Steyning (2b 668).
In the 1901 census as Jennie (sic - in the index, Jessie on the original) Marden aged 38, born in Wingham, Kent, and living with her husband (Leonard) at 6 Westbourne Place, Aldrington St Leonard, Hove, Sussex.
Wingham is 8 miles east of Canterbury on the A257, Bridge 5 miles SE on A2050.
Jessie Gibbs was the wife of Leonard Marden, my second cousin twice removed.
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