Deorcey/Deorcy Gibson
Alternative surname: John Gibson Doxey.
John Gibson D'ORCEY was born in 1833 at Middleton, Derbyshire. He married Mary Jordan Parker born 1834 in Wesson, Derbyshire.
Children include:
- Alice Gibson born 1858/59 in Sheffield, she married Alfred Roddis, a gardener, born 1852/3 in Whiston.
- Grace Bertha DeOrsey Gibson(1871-1957), born at Brightside, Sheffield on 30th March, 1871
Grace was the 15th of 16 children. Source: Family
The 1881 census records the family as Gibson, living at Catcliffe:
John GIBSON
Head M Male 47 Middleton, Derby, England Pit Laborer
Mary GIBSON
Wife M Female 47 Wesson, Derby, England
Wm. GIBSON
Son U Male 18 Sheffield, York, England Pit Laborer
Hy. GIBSON
Son Male 12 Sheffield, York, England Scholar
Bertha GIBSON
Daug Female 9 Darnall, York, England Scholar
Wilfred BRIGHTMORE
Lodger Male 2 Catcliffe, York, England (At Nurse)
Albert BAKER
Lodger Male 17 Popes Hill, Gloucester, England Pit Laborer
Listed in the 1901 census for Chapeltown living at 102 Station Road are;
- Mary A. Deorcy Gibson, head of family and a widower, aged 67, born Wesson Trent, Derbys.
- Eliza A Deorcy Gibson, single aged 40, born in Sheffield
- Wilfred B. Deorcy Gibson, single, Adopted son, aged 22, a Railway Plate Layer, born in Rotherham.
- Edwin Deorcy Gibson, son aged 19, Colliery Labourer born in Rotherham
Notes re Wilfred B. Deorcy Gibson. He was the son of Henry Brightmore and Sarah Brightmore from Catcliffe, both of whom had died before he was two years old.
Notes re Edwin D'Orcy Gibson. He was the illegitimate son of Eliza Ellen Gibson (she is shown as mother on his birth certificate and his name then was spelled Edwin Deorsey Gibson). He was born in Catcliffe on 14 July 1881. He died at 26 Smith Street, Chapeltown, on 14 October 1905. On his death certificate his mother is shown as Ellen Clancy, 13 Studd Street, Islington, London.
Grace Bertha DeOrsey Gibson married Frank Bolsover (1868-1957) on 2nd January, 1893.
Children of Frank and Grace Bolsover:
- Mary Lilian Bolsover was the second wife of John Thomas Thompson of Catcliffe. His first wife was Gladys Roddis of Whiston
- Jack Bolsover married Renee ?. They had one son and two daughters
- Frank Andrew Bolsover married Elsie Hartley
- Wilfred Parker Bolsover, unmarried died 1956
- Grace Ellen Bolsover died unmarried 1958.
- Effie Gibson Bolsover, married Thomas Lawn Morris. They had 4 sons.
- Alan Richard Bolsover, killed in WW2
Notes re Frank Bolsover born 24/10/1868:
He was the son of Thomas Reddish (b1836) and Sarah Ann Pickford(b1843) who married 25/12/1866. At some stage he entered the Blue Coats School for the destitutes. When he came out, he took the name of his mothers second husband - Reddish.
He died in 1957 at Burncross, Sheffield.