Rhoda GIBSON

  General Notes:

Births Mar 1891 West Ham Vol 4a P74 - Rhoda Gibson. DoB was 6 Dec 1890 and parents were living at 19 Ethel Road, Plaistow
- new GRO indexes list mother's name as Potter

Address at death of father (1940) was 15 Lawton Road, Leyton

Deaths Jun 1951
Essex SW 5a 163 Gibson Rhoda aged 60
Died on 28 May 1951 at Langthorne Hospital, Leyton
Rhoda Gibson, Female, 60 years, of 15 Lawton Road Leyton U.D. Spinster of no occupation Daughter of Walter Gibson a Docks Warehouseman (deceased). The informant was W.W. Gibson brother 11 Brook Crescent Chingford on 28 May 1951

Langthorne Hospital Langthorne Road E11 - Grade II
Erected in 1840 as the West Ham Union Workhouse on land originally part of Stratford Langthorne Abbey. Renamed in 1948.
In 1930, with the passing of the Poor Law Act, West Ham borough council took over responsibility for the Workhouse and ran it as the "Central Home" for the chronic sick, aged, and infirm.
Under the National Health Service Act, 1946, the Home became, in 1948, part of the Leytonstone group of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and was renamed Langthorne Hospital. The new name was taken in the belief that the site was once part of the 1,500 acres of land owned by Stratford Langthorne Abbey. A Latin motto was found in the writings of Cicero, "Fiat jucunda senectus" ("May latter days be happy days"), and the Tree of Life was adopted as the Hospital emblem.



Walter Gibson's Burial was on 9 Feb 1940 (aged 85) in grave 93716 (square 37) at City of London Cemetery. Also buried in this grave are Fanny Agnes Gibson (bur 21 Jul 1921 aged 65) and their daughter Rhoda (bur 31 May 1951 aged 60)

CoL Burial Register
Burial Register 87 (Mar 1951-Apr 1953), page 040
430513, 1951 May, 31, Rhoda Gibson, 11 Brook Cres E4, Fem, 60 yrs, death 1951 May, 28, death registered Leyton Essex South Western, parish Chingford, grave square 37, grave 93716, grant 21395, 3rd class private grave, Consecrated

1891 Census
Address 19 Ethel Road, Canning Town, West Ham
RG12/1317 Folio 93 P40 - County Essex, Parish West Ham ED8, Eccl Par St Luke
Gibson, Walter, Head, M, 35, Lamptrimmer, Middlesex, St Georges
Gibson, Fanny, Wife, M, 32, , Middlesex, Whitechaple
Gibson, Arthur, Son, , 11, Scholar, Middlesex, St Georges
Gibson, William, Son, , 4, Scholar, West ham;custom house
Gibson, Ernest, Son, , 2, , West ham;custom house
Gibson, Rhoda, Daur, , 3m, , West ham;custom house

1901 Census
Florence Lavinia is said to be aged 8 (actually 7) - address was 60 Sutton Court Road in Plaistow - St Andrews Parish
RG13/1572 F69 P32
Walter Gibson, Head, age 43, Dock Labourer, born Middlesex London
Fanny A Gibson, Wife, age 42,, born Middlesex London
William W M Gibson, Son, age 14,Port Labouring boy, born Essex West Ham
Ernest Gibson, Son, age 12,, born Essex West Ham
Rhoda Gibson, Daughter, age 10,, born Essex West Ham
Florence Gibson, Daughter, age 8,, born Essex West Ham
Jessie Gibson, Daughter, age 4,, born Essex West Ham

1911 census
RG14PN9441 RG78PN507B RD188 SD3 ED31 SN181
14 Dundee Road, Plaistow E Essex
Walter Gibson, Head, 55, Married, Dock Labourer, London St Georges
Fanny Gibson, Wife, 52, Married, London St Georges E
Ernest Gibson, Son, 22, Single, Ledger Clerk, Essex Custom House E
Rhoda Gibson, Daughter, 20, Single, Shorthand Typist, Essex Custom House E
Florence Gibson, Daughter, 18, Single, do Typist, Essex Custom House E
Jessie Gibson, Daughter, 14, -, -, Essex Custom House E
against Fanny it states she has been married 32 years and has had 8 children born alive, 6 living, 2 died
The house had 5 rooms
This matches with previously known information
- no infirmities shown in the final column of the form