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John Gibbon

John in the RAF, RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire, 1961.
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John Gibbon.
Descendant of Edward III.
DNA match to many people. See below.
He mar Janet Noltie.
They had issue:

1. Elizabeth Gibbon.
   DNA match to both her parents.
   See her ancestors by Leo van de Pas.
   See interesting ancestors by Leo van de Pas.
   She mar Mark Humphrys [descendant of Edward III] and had issue.

   
   

2. David Gibbon.
   He mar Marina Trunilova.
   They had issue:
   1. Jennifer Gibbon.
   2. Emma Gibbon.

John in the ambulance service.
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Summary of ancestry

How does one summarise an ancestry?

• Everyone descends from a long list of people, rich and poor, famous and unknown. Hard to summarise. A list of surnames and places.
• One type of summary is to find descents from Western nobility and royalty. Why? Because a link to a core "Western family tree" provides a way of tying the West together.
• John Gibbon has multiple descents from the "Western family tree", through Montgomery and Yeats and Kerr.
• See summary tree of these descents.
• To be precise, he is a descendant of Edward III (died 1377) and James II, King of Scotland (died 1460) and Aoife MacMurrough (died maybe 1188) and Brian Boru (died 1014) and Charlemagne (died 814).

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DNA matches

John Gibbon is a DNA match with all of the following, so all these lines are DNA proven:

• Gibbon line: Connie Gallagher and Nicholas Vorderman and Alex Vorderman and Jennifer Brown.
• Stanger line: Simon Davis and Chris Winthrop and Luke Charlton and Francesca Crane and Patricia Holman.
• Wells line: Josephine Parker and Mark Ellison and Sheila Angell and Malcolm Peach and Richard Drath.
• Ruffles line: Gina Bergamini and Nicholas Sandle.
• Kerr line: Hugh Robertson and Chris Scharff.
• Maltass line: John Hugh La Fontaine Thompson and Celia Nowill and Brigitte Theuma.

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What tartan should be used?

What tartan should a Gibbon descendant use?

Well of course, tartans are only a bit of fun. Not only do most people use tartans of families they have no proven descent from, but most tartans themselves are in fact recent inventions. So while the real answer to: "What tartan should be used?" is: "Whatever you like", there is in fact a provable question here which could be interesting, which is: "Does the family actually descend from any clan?"

There is a tartan used on the Noltie side:

• The Hunting Stewart tartan:
  Hugh Noltie (born in England to Scottish parents) used the Hunting Stewart tartan, which was apparently used by his mother's family, Stephen.
  But there is no known connection of this family to the Stewart family.
  In fact, the "Hunting Stewart" is normally regarded as a tartan that anyone can use.

On the other hand, the Gibbon family is provably descended from many Scottish clans:

• The Clan Skene tartan:
  The Clan Skene tartan could be used.
  The Gibbon family since Barbara Yeats (married Gibbon in 1769) is descended from Skene, Laird of Skene.
  In particular, they descend from Katharine Skene (died 1686-90), descendant of Alexander Skene, 9th Laird of Skene (died 1507).

• The Hunter of Hunterston tartan:
  The Hunter of Hunterston tartan could be used.
  The Gibbon family since Elizabeth Montgomery (married Gibbon in 1814) is descended from Hunter, Laird of Hunterston.
  In particular, they descend from Kitty Hunter (died 1795), descendant of Robert Hunter, 20th Laird of Hunterston (died 1679).

• The Clan Kerr tartan:
  The Clan Kerr tartan could be used.
  The Gibbon family since Mary Kerr (married Gibbon in 1861) is descended from Clan Kerr.
  Mary Kerr (died 1900) is a direct male-line descendant of the main line of Clan Kerr.

And the Gibbon family also descends from the Royal House of Stewart.
So the Royal Stewart tartan could be used. (In fact, this is regarded as a tartan that anyone can use.)

• The Royal Stewart tartan:
  The Royal Stewart tartan could be used.
  The Gibbon family since Barbara Yeats descends from Robert III, Stewart King of Scotland (died 1406).
  And the Gibbon family since Elizabeth Montgomery descends from James II, Stewart King of Scotland (died 1460).