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Guy Wordsworth Gibson              1899-1943
Guy was born about 1899, the son of Daniel Gibson and Mary Emily Wordsworth Harrison, at Windemere, Westmorland.   Guy was the Great-Great Nephew of Wordsworth, the poet (1828).   He was killed in the North Africa campaign of World War II.
Betty Doxford                               1900-1990
Betty was born on 9 October 1900, the daughter of Albert "Ernest" Doxford and Bertha Eleanor Warner, at Sunderland, County Durham.
I have identified the following children.
  Mary Dorothy Wordsworth Born 25 Sep 1929   Married Rowland Simpson
John D. Wordsworth Born 19 Feb 1931    

Birth of Parents
Guy Wordsworth Gibson b: abt 1899         Windemere, Westmorland     1899 4Q Kendal 10b 748
son of Daniel Gibson and Mary Emily Wordsworth Harrison

Betty Doxford b: 9 Oct 1900           Sunderland, County Durham     1900 4Q Sunderland 10a 645
daughter of Albert "Ernest" Doxford and Bertha Eleanor Warner

The Times, Tuesday, Mar 23, 1926                         Marriages
Mr. G. W. Gibson and Miss B. Doxford
  The engagement is announced between Mr. Guy Wordsworth Gibson, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gibson, of Windemere, Westmorland, and grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson, of Basenthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, and Betty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Doxford, of Newby Wiske, Yorkshire, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Theodore and Lady Doxford, of Grindon Hall, Sunderland.

Marriage
abt 1928
Guy Wordsworth Gibson
Betty Doxford 		Newby Wiske Hall, Yorkshire       1928 1Q Thirsk 9d 631



Children
Mary Dorothy Wordsworth Gibson b: 25 Sep 1929       1929 4Q Chepstow 11a 5
daughter of Guy Wordsworth Gibson and Betty Doxford
John D. Wordsworth Gibson b: 19 Feb 1931       1931 1Q Chepstow 11a 13
son of Guy Wordsworth Gibson and Betty Doxford


Death
Guy Wordsworth Gibson Died 23 April 1943, Age 43

IN MEMORY OF
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
GUY WORDSWORTH GIBSON
COMMANDING. 1st Bn., THE LOYAL REGIMENT
(NORTH LANCASHIRE)
WHO DIED
ON FRIDAY 23 APRIL 1943, Age 43

SON OF DANIEL AND
MARY EMILY WORDSWORTH GIBSON,
AND HUSBAND OF BETTY GIBSON
of MICKLEY, YORKSHIRE
REMEMBERED WITH HONOR
MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia

The Times, Friday, May 14, 1943                         Death
  GIBSON - Killed in action in April 1943, Lt.-Colonel Guy Wordsworth Gibson, The Loyal Regiment, eldest son of the late Daniel Gibson, of Bowness, Westmorland, and husband of Betty Gibson, Cogdon Hall, Grinton, Richmond, Yorkshire

NOTTINGHAM   26 Aug 1943                         Probate
GIBSON, Guy Wordsworth - of Cogdon Hall, Grinton, Yorkshire, died 23 April, on war service, Probate Nottingham, 26 August, to John Esam, solicitor.
  Effects £154 9s. 6d.   Resworn £950 0s. 7d.


COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

Death
Betty (Doxford) Wordsworth Gibson Died 11 Sep 1990, Age 89,       North Yorkshire       1990 Sep Claro 2 1733

SPECIAL THANKS  to Mig_R at flickr for the wedding photos.