John was born on 9 November 1829, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of John Gibson and Mary Brown.
John married Margaret Craig on 11 March 1857 at their residence, 8 Douglas Street, Glasgow, according to a United Presbyterian Church ceremony officiated by Minister G Marshall Middleton.[1][2][3]
John died on the 5 November 1897 at Austin Hospital, Plenty Road, Heidelberg, Victoria.[4]
Sources
↑ Scottish civil marriage registration: District of Blythswood, Burgh of Glasgow, Blythswood 1857 marriages page 59, District Registration 1857/118, available at Scotlands People 1857 GIBSON, JOHN (Statutory registers Marriages 644/6 118).
"On the Eleventh day of March 1857 at 8 Douglas Street Glasgow Marriage (after Banns) was solemnized between us according to the Banns [?] of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland"
John Gibson, aged 27, of 8 Douglas Street, Glasgow, master mariner, bachelor, son of John Gibson (master mariner) and Mary Gibson (maiden name Brown).
Witnessed by James Harper and Robert Lennig [?]
Officiating Minister: G Marshall Middleton, Minister. Registered at Glasgow, 12 March 1857, by James Struthers, Assistant Registrar.
↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTTY-DYR : 10 February 2018), John Gibson and Margaret Craig, 11 Mar 1857; citing Blythswood,Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.
↑ An announcement was published in the Glasgow Herald on the 13 March 1857:
At 8 Douglas Street, on the 11th inst., by the Rev G M Middleton, Mr John Gibson, Launceston, Tasmania, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late John Craig, Esq, dyer, Glasgow.
↑ National Library of Australia, Family Notices (1897, November 20). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), p. 55. Retrieved March 16, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138630523, Death notice for John Gibson
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