This is transcribed from the LCGS newsletter, April, 1989. The Bible was described as being in the Perth Museum. Editorial comments are in [square brackets].
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Margaret Gibb born 7th April, 1814
Jane Gibb born 26 March, 1815 - died 16 April, 1827
Alexander Gibb born 9 April, 1816 - died May 5th, 1895
William Gibb born 18 July, 1817 - died 10th May, 1823
James Low Gibb born 17th Sept. 1819. Died 27th Decr, 1873
John Gibb born 3 Decr, 1821 died Decr, 27, 1890
Sophia Henrietta Gibb born 6 November 1823 died June 30th, 1902
Clementina William [sic] Gibb born 10 Nov 1825 died Dec 22, 1902
Isabella Mackenzie Gibb born 8 Jany, 1829
Jacobina Farmer Gibb born -- April, 1831
Jane Anderson Gibb born 6 April, 1833 died June 2/188(6?)
William Purvis Gibb born 6 Decr., 1835 died Dec '86
Susanna Brown Gibb born 17 July 1838 died Feb 27th 1882
On a loose sheet tucked into the same Bible . . .
Jane Anderson Gibb married Andrew Wilson Bell
1. Margaret Hope Bell - married - Peter McRae - May 7th, 1884
both drowned July 2nd, 1896
2. Clementina Sophia [sic] Bell
married Alfred Ernest Tripp, October 3rd, 1894
3. Jane Isabella Bell -
1. Ivan Leslie Bell McRae
b. Dec 3rd. 1887, drowned July 2, 1896
2. Margaret Hope McRae - born Oct. 13, 1892
Alfreda Jane Sydney Tripp - born October 15th, 1895
[Note November, 1999 : LCGS member Malcolm Sissons writes: " . . . In
reviewing the bibles, the Gibb bible is shown with entries for TRIPP
but this should be FRIPP. My grandmother, Margaret Hope Bell, was raised
by Senator Fripp and her aunt Clementina in Ottawa."]
Alexander Gibb
Florence Jane Gibb born April 6th, 1885
Susanna Sophia Isabella Gibb born December 11th, 1886
Mae Purvis Gibb
James Law [sic] Gibb born 1880
Margaret Jane Stirling Gibb born 1885
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