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Last week 20 descendants representing six generations of the Gibbs family met in the Gulgong cemetery at the gravestone of their great great grandparents William and Hannah Gibbs.
Hannah and William formally from England migrated to Australia in 1848 on the Fairlie. Fate was on their side because they decided to settle in Bathurst and just after their arrival the gold rush began. William being a blacksmith by trade found his business boomed with the making of and repairing mining tools and carts, and shoeing horses.
In 1984 William and Hannah and their son William moved to Gulgong. William passed away in Gulgong on May 19, 1989.
As a New Year's gift in 1897 William Jr gave his mother Hannah a family bible. On the front page many dates of interest were recorded. The bible is now in the Gulgong Pioneers Museum.
The family's maternal great great grandfather was a baker in Gulgong. Patrick Carlin actually worked as a baker in the Times Bakery which was depicted on the original $10 note. The Times Bakery building now houses part of the Gulgong Pioneer Museum.
Marie Gorrie of Gulgong and her cousin Gaye Gibbs organised the reunion and from all accounts there were many a story told over the three day get together. They are hoping to make it an annual event.
I was speaking with a couple of the students' parents who said they were delighted that the children were given the opportunity to work to raise the funds themselves thus teaching them the value of money and congratulated Miss Greenwood on the initiative.
They were all working very hard and I am sure they succeeded in raising the funds that would put them well on the way to their camp.
