Gibson Family Records

QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY CHS 42 THE AMY LEWIS HOPE GIBSON COLLECTION Rural Life, Northern Tasmania Campbell Town INTRODUCTION THE RECORDS GIBSON FAMILY 1.David Gibson 2.William Henry Gibson 3-7.Frank William Gibson 8.Ernest Gibson 9-15.Malcolm Frank Gibson 16-19.Amy Lewis Hope Gibson 20.Racing Club Programs 21.Show programs etc 22.Miscellaneous Gibson Family Items TURNBULL FAMILY 23.Dr Adam Turnbull 24-26.Rev. Dr Adam Turnbull 27.Mrs Margaret Turnbull 28.Some Other Members of Turnbull Family 29.Alexandra May Dowling 30.Lewis Dowling 31.Miscellaneous Turnbull Items 32.Presbyterian Church Records 33.Miscellaneous Items 34.Photographs OTHER SOURCES INTRODUCTION These records, from the estate of the late Mrs Amy Lewis Hope (known as Hope) Gibson (1900-1993), comprise two distinct collections - for the Gibson family and the Turnbull family, both of Campbell Town. The families were ultimately linked by marriage when Hope Dowling, a Turnbull descendant, married Malcolm Gibson. Hope Dowling married Malcolm Frank Gibson, a pastoralist of Meadow Bank, Campbell Town, on 11 May 1921 at St Andrew’s Church, Campbell Town. There is a considerable quantity of material relating to Malcolm Gibson (1891-1961) and some for his father Frank William Gibson (1863-1913) and his grandfather William Henry Gibson (1837-1906). William leased Meadow Bank and Frank, a pastoralist of Wanstead, near Campbell Town, subsequently purchased the property. Malcolm succeeded his father at Meadow Bank, where he bred Merino sheep. He was one of the State’s leading show-horse exhibitors and breeders and a member of the Midland Hunt Club for many years. The Gibson papers provide a detailed record of farming activities at Meadow Bank for some 60 years, including information on employees. The financial records demonstrate the interaction between the property and Campbell Town businesses. Hope Gibson was the daughter of Lewis and Alexandra May (known as May) Dowling. Her father, Lewis Dowling (1867-1951), managed Quorn Hall, Campbell Town, for many years and some Quorn Hall records are included. Her mother, May, was a daughter of William and Amelia Turnbull and William was a son of Rev. Dr Adam Turnbull. Hope shared an interest in show-horses with her husband. A successful equestrian, she contributed the chapter ‘A horse for a hack’ in Zita White’s book, A Race of Horsemen (Brisbane, 1962). Hope continued to live at Meadow Bank after Malcolm’s death in 1961, until her passing thirty years later, on 19 July 1993. A considerable amount of her correspondence and financial records are included in the collection. Rev. Dr Adam Turnbull (1803-1891), medical practitioner, public servant and Presbyterian minister, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1825. The subject of an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, he was Presbyterian minister at Campbell Town from 1854 to 1874. After he retired he lived at Ivy Cottage, Glenelg Street, in the town until the time of his death. His records form an important component of the collection. There are also records for some of his Campbell Town descendants. Ada Susanna Turnbull, one of William and Amelia Turnbull’s eight daughters, was the last member of the Turnbull family to live in the town: she died there in 1951. Dates of birth and death have been obtained from the records, printed indexes to the Examiner (held in the Launceston Library), Victorian Great War Index 1914-1920 on microfiche and from publications listed in Other Sources. The collection was donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in August 1993. GIBSON FAMILY David Gibson (1780?-1858) 1/1 David Gibson, letter to Robert Taylor, McQuarri (sic) 1824 River William Henry Gibson, 1837-1906, grandson of David Gibson 2/1 Photocopies of family register pages of bible given to 1862 to W H Gibson by his mother, with his children’s names and their dates of birth, marriage and death 2/2 W H Gibson, correspondence re fences at Meadow Bank 1888, 1900 2/3 W H Gibson, correspondence re J & T Gunn removing 1896 stone from Meadow Bank for construction of Tamar Bridge 2/4 Copy of William H Gibson’s copy of will 1906 2/5 Estate of William Henry Gibson late of Fairfield 1907 (executors account) 2/6 Estate of William Henry Gibson, deceased and estate 1949 of Mrs Hannah Gibson, deceased (memorandum to beneficiaries and relevant information) Frank William Gibson, 1863-1913, son of William Henry Gibson 3.Legal Records 3/1 Frank William Gibson, agreement with Norman Clark re 1900 removal of wattle bark from Meadow Bank 4.Correspondence 4/1 Frank Gibson, correspondence, 1887, 1895, 1898-99, 1903-04 1887-1904 (predominantly wool and sheep sales. A few misc items e.g. draft of a letter to father, dental appointments, gravestone inscription, opening of a boys school at Campbell Town) 4/2 Letterbook 1889-1908 4/3 Correspondence re Frank Gibson’s son Kenneth Gibson 1903-1911 (Grammar School, Launceston and Leslie House School, New Town [Hobart] ) 4/4 Correspondence re purchase of Meadow Bank 1904 4/5 Correspondence, return forms etc re sheep dipping 1904-1907 4/6 Correspondence 1905 4/7 Correspondence etc re memorial at Kirklands 1905-1908 cemetery (3 sketches are Oversize items) 4/8 Correspondence 1906 4/9 Correspondence 1907 4/10 Correspondence 1908 4/11 Correspondence 1909 4/12 Correspondence 1910-1913 5.Financial Records 5/1 Financial records 1894-1899 5/2 Financial records 1900-1903 5/3 Financial records 1904-1905 5/4 Financial records 1906 5/5 Financial records 1907 5/6 Financial records 1908 5/7 Financial records 1909 5/8 Financial records 1910 5/9 Financial records 1911 5/10 Financial records 1912 6.Miscellaneous Records 6/1 Nine notebooks etc re sheep and shearing 1888-1913 6/2 Record book of employees 1888-1911 6/3 Record book re sheep 1896-1905 6/4 Diary, 1905; notebook, 1906 1905, 1906 6/5 Items relating to Tasmanian Kennel Club, 1906, 1907 (includes undated newspaper cuttings, two items are Oversize items) 6/6 Mr F. W. Gibson, Wanstead; Frank Gibson, visiting cards nd Frank and Malcolm Gibson 7/1 Record book re sheep at Meadow Bank 1911-1922 7/2 Three notebooks re shearing at Meadow Bank 1909-1926 Ernest Gibson, 1867-1960, son of William Henry Gibson 8/1 Valuation of Wanstead, near Campbell 1907 Town Malcolm Frank Gibson, 1891-1961, son of Frank William Gibson 9.Legal Records 9/1 Malcolm Frank Gibson and Amy Lewis Hope Dowling, 1921 marriage certificate; wedding invitation 9/2 Malcolm Gibson and Hydro-electric Commission re 1935 erection of poles etc 9/3 Malcolm Gibson and Hydro-electric Commission re 1949 electric power to Meadow Bank 9/4 Malcolm Gibson and Department of Mines, Tasmania, 1950 re drilling for underground water 9/5 Malcolm Gibson and William Ellis, share farming agreement 1954 9/6 Malcolm Frank Gibson’s will 1958 10.Correspondence 10/1 Grammar School, Campbell Town, reports 1904, 1905 10/2 Grammar School, Launceston, reports 1905, 1906 10/3 Correspondence, 1903, 1906, 1907 1903-1907 10/4 Correspondence 1912-1914 10/5 Correspondence etc re his brother Kenneth Gibson 1914-1935 10/6 Correspondence 1915-1916 10/7 Correspondence 1917-1920 10/8 Letterbook 1920 10/9 Correspondence 1921-1922 10/10 Letterbook 1922-1925 10/11 Correspondence (includes letter 7 August 1924 1923-1924 from Norman Nicholson re establishment of Scotch College) 10/12 Correspondence etc re Meadow Bank Flagstaff 1924-1925 Tier 10/13 Correspondence 1925-1926 10/14 Correspondence 1927-1928 10/15 Correspondence 1929-1930 10/16 Correspondence 1931-1934 10/17 Correspondence 1935-1938 10/18 Correspondence re weekend house at St Helens 1939-1940 10/19 Correspondence 1939-1942 10/20 Correspondence, includes 1943 correspondence 1943-1945 Valleyfield aerodrome) 10/21 Correspondence 1946-1950 10/22 Correspondence etc re closer settlement 1948-1949 10/23 Correspondence re shearing shed (includes plan) 1950 10/24 Correspondence 1951-1955 10/25 Correspondence 1956-1959 11.Financial Records 11/1 Financial records 1913-1915 11/2 Wages books, notes re named employees 1913-1948 (some years missing) 11/3 Financial records 1916-1917 11/4 Financial records 1918-1919 11/5 Financial records 1920-1921 11/6 Financial records 1922-1923 11/7 Financial records 1924-1926 11/8 Financial records 1927-1931 11/9 Financial records 1932 11/10 Financial records 1933 11/11 Financial records 1934-1940 11/12 Financial records 1941-1945 11/13 Financial records 1946-1950 11/14 Financial records 1951-1952 11/15 Financial records 1953 11/16 Financial records 1954 11/17 Financial records 1955 11/18 Financial records 1956 11/19 Financial records 1957 11/20 Financial records 1958 11/21 Financial records 1959-1961 12.Sheep Records, Shearing Records 12/1 Records re sheep 1913-1920 12/2 Correspondence etc re shearing 1915-1922 12/3 Correspondence etc re shearing 1923-1929 12/4 Six notebooks re shearing 1918-1961 12/5 Records of lamb marking 1918-1951 12/6 Correspondence re sheep dipping (some years 1927-1945 missing) 12/7 Meadow Bank tally books, 1932-1953, 1957 1932-1957 12/8 Diaries re sheep 1935-1953 13.Ledgers 13/1 Malcolm Gibson in account with Jack Jones 1920-1945 13/2 Wages etc book 1924-1940 13/3 Wages paid to shearers 1925-1955 13/4 Wages book, mainly casual hands 1932-1938 13/5 Wages book 1934-1950 13/6 Wages book (includes other farm 1940-1951 financial information) 13/7 Wages book 1950-1959 14.Diaries 14/1 Personal diaries, 1905-06, 1910, 1918, 1922, 1905-1961 1923, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1941, 1946-1961 14/2 Sheepman’s diaries 1911-1917 15.Miscellaneous Records 15/1 Malcolm Gibson, newspaper obituaries 1961 15/2 Mr Malcolm F.

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