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CHAPTER PAGE
 PREFACE.....  
I. ancestry..... ...1
II. marriage of joseph and martha gibbins..... ...9
III. death of the child thomas, birth of THE SECOND THOMAS GIBBINS..... ...14
IV. marriage of elizabeth lovell. death of thomas gibbins, senr. death of martha bevington..... ...16
V. family news...... ...19
VI. marriage of anne to croudson tunstall..... ...27
VII. marriage of brueton gibbins to sarah bowly...... ...33
VIII. death of theodore galton..... ...42
IX. anxiety Respecting the health of joseph gibbins, senr..... ...43
X. death of joseph gibbins, senr..... ...50
XI. illness of mary gibbins..... ...58
XII. visit to swansea and anxiety respecting mary gibbins ..... ...66
XIII. family Responsibilities .... ...73
XIV. illness and death of elizabeth lovell. illness and death of john gibbins..... ...85
XV. illness of martha gibbins..... ...91


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XVI.  marriage of james gibbins to eliza bassett. thomas gibbins sails for brazil. engagement of martha gibbins, junr. removal to handsworth. engagement of mary gibbins..... ...97
XVII.  marriage of mary gibbins to henry aggs. thomas gibbins again sails for brazil..... ...107
XVIII.  marriage oF martha gibbins, jUnr., to joseph ashby gillett..... ...113
XIX.  delicacy of william gibbins..... ...124
XX.  marriage op joseph gibbins to elizabeth clarance. death of sarah B. gibbins..... ...129
XXI.  george gibbins attacked and robbed. joseph lovell leaves his family. martha gibbins visits upton..... ...136
XXII.  marriage of brueton gibbins to eliza lucy leonard. illness of J. A. gillett..... ...156
XXIII.  william gibbins travels in italy. commercial depression..... ...166
XXIV.  the run on the banks..... ...179
XXV. statement of accounts of birmingham bank..... ...184
XXVI. death of elizabeth gibbins at swansea ..... ...188
XXVII. increasing feebleness of martha gibbins, and her death..... ...195


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XXVIII...marriages : bevington gibbins to Rebecca tRegelles ; george gibbins to ann catherine thomson ; william gibbins to elizabeth T. Fox..... ...207
XXIX...death of bevington gibbins. illness of elizabeth T. gibbins. death of eliza gibbins.... ...210
XXX...marriage of thomas gibbins to emma J. cadbury. death of elizabeth T. gibbins ..... ...218
XXXI...marriage of joseph gibbins to sarah lowe ..... ...216
XXXII...illness and death of william gibbins. illness of george gibbins ..... ...222
XXXIII...deaths of george gibbins ; anne tunstall ; james gibbins ; croudson tunstall ; joseph A. gillett..... ...231
XXXIV. deaths of brueton gibbins ; eliza lucy gibbins ; henry aggs ; Rebecca B. gibbins ..... ...234
XXXV. deaths of thomas gibbins ; joseph gibbins ; mary aggs ; martha gillett ; sarah gibbins ; emma J. gibbins..... ...237
   
   


Appendix

APPENDIXES

I

A FEW REMINISCENCES OF EMMA J. GIBBINS
AND THE FRIENDS OF HER EARLIER AND LATER LIFE

CHAPTER PAGE
I. some memories of the cadbury family ...... ...241
II. marriage of thomas gibbins and emma J. cadbury....... ...260
III. illness of thomas gibbins, and his death ...... ...268
IV. quarterly meetings and memories of early days...... ...270
V. later years of E. J. gibbins, and her death ...... ...273

II

 
LETTERS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE BEVINGTON FAMILY  
   
I. document by john stanley, 1694 ..... ...277
II. letters written during john bevington's journeys as a minister in the society of friends..... ...281
III. concerning samuel bevington ..... ...294
IV. letters from ann, widow of william bevington, to jeffrey bevington ..... ...307
V. letters from joseph and mary storrs..... ...311


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VI. letters from sarah bevington ..... ...315
VII. letters from george and sarah beckitt ..... ...322
VIII. account of jeffrey bevington, of eatington..... ...326
   
INDEX.........  
   
GENEALOGICAL TABLES :  
I. the gibbins family . . To face page ...238
II. the bevington family..... ...328
   
WEDDING CERTIFICATES . . In pocket at end  
   
I. josiah gibbins and mary hyatt, 1755.  
II. joseph gibbins and martha bevington, 1778.  


Portraits

LIST OF PORTRAITS

martha gibbins..... Frontispiece (coloured)
Aggs, mary..... To face page 238
Bevington, hannah..... 270 (3)
------ martha..... 270 (2)
------ Rebecca..... 270 (4)
------ sarah..... 10(2)
------ timothy..... 10 (1)
------ william ..... 24 (1)
Clarance, elizabeth..... 130 (2)
Fardon, deborah..... 24 (2)
Fox, elizabeth tregelles..... 212 (2)
Galton, theodore ..... 42 (1)
Gibbins, A. C...... 206 (2)
---—- bevington..... 208 (1)
------ brueton..... 38(1)
------ eliza..... 98(2)
------ eliza lucy..... 156
------ emma joel..... To face page 262 (2), 266 (2), 272 (1)
------ george..... To face page206 (1)
------ james..... 98 (1)
------ joseph, senior..... 50 (1)
------ joseph, junior..... To Face page 130 (1), 218 (1)
------ martha.... To face page50(2)
------ mary ..... 42(2)
------ Rebecca B...... 208(2)
------ sarah brueton..... 38(2)


Portraits
CONTENTS  
   
Gibbins, Sarah..... ...To face page 218 (2), 236 (1)
------ Thomas..... ...To face page 262 (1), 266 (1), 268 (1) (2)
------ William..... ...To face page 212 (1)
Gillett, Joseph A..... ...114(1), 232(1)
------ Martha..... ...114(2), 282(2)
Lowe, Jeffrey Bevington..... ...236 (2)
------ Margaret..... ...286 (3)
Peglar, Theophilus..... ...270 (1)
Tunstall, Anne..... ...28 (2)
------ Croudson..... ...28 (1)
   
VIEWS  
Aston flint glass works (exterior)..... ...66 (1)
Aston flint glass works (interior)..... ...66 (2)
Birches green..... ...122
Bungalow (brazil) occupied by Thomas Gibbins and R. Pink..... ...104
Digbeth house..... ...260
Emma J. Gibbins in carriage at her front-door..... ...272 (2)
Houndshill, near Stratford-on-Avon..... ...218 (4)
Martha Gibbins's house, Handsworth ...... ...100
The Manor house, Eatington..... ...10 (3)
The Meeting house, Eatington..... ...8
West Bar, Banbury..... ...132
Whitmore House..... ...218 (3)