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This is the family history of John and Joan Gibson. They came from very different backgrounds but, nonetheless, had a lot in common.Both were born into quite large families and both were the last child to be born and were thus quite possibly unplanned and unexpected (although not unloved) for quite elderly parents. John was the 4th of 4 born 8 years after the previous child when his parents were both 39 years old. Joan was her mother’s 8th child (one died very young) born in 1922 when her mother was 46, again, 8 years after the previous child. Both families may have struggled with the new arrivals, although in different ways, and they were both brought up to a large extent by an older sister. John’s family were successful, prosperous and highly active in local civic activities (culminating in his father’s appointment as Mayor of Rugby in 1955) and his father had started a new business 8 years earlier and they would have relied heavily on daughter Kath, 12 years old when John was born, to look after the new baby. For Joan’s mother however life must have been a different kind of struggle. She had separated from her first husband (and father of her first 7 children), “escaped” to Leicester, and remarried, but then her second husband died when Joan was 4. She was a cook and must have struggled to bring up her children; probably working long hours and Joan was to a large extent brought up by her step-sister Rose who was 8 years older.There is one further similarity – they both served in the RAF during World War Two, he as a spitfire pilot and she in the NAAFI possibly as a cook, like her mother, and that is where they met at RAF Warmwell and that was where their lives together began.
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This is the family history of John and Joan Gibson. They came from very different backgrounds but, nonetheless, had a lot in common.Both were born into quite large families and both were the last child to be born and were thus quite possibly unplanned and unexpected (although not unloved) for quite elderly parents. John was the 4th of 4 born 8 years after the previous child when his parents were both 39 years old. Joan was her mother’s 8th child (one died very young) born in 1922 when her mother was 46, again, 8 years after the previous child. Both families may have struggled with the new arrivals, although in different ways, and they were both brought up to a large extent by an older sister. John’s family were successful, prosperous and highly active in local civic activities (culminating in his father’s appointment as Mayor of Rugby in 1955) and his father had started a new business 8 years earlier and they would have relied heavily on daughter Kath, 12 years old when John was born, to look after the new baby. For Joan’s mother however life must have been a different kind of struggle. She had separated from her first husband (and father of her first 7 children), “escaped” to Leicester, and remarried, but then her second husband died when Joan was 4. She was a cook and must have struggled to bring up her children; probably working long hours and Joan was to a large extent brought up by her step-sister Rose who was 8 years older.There is one further similarity – they both served in the RAF during World War Two, he as a spitfire pilot and she in the NAAFI possibly as a cook, like her mother, and that is where they met at RAF Warmwell and that was where their lives together began.
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The Mayor's Son and the Cook's Daughter: A History of the Gibson Family
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