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Name: Joseph Gibbs

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Death Date: 18/04/1801

Sex: M

Marital Status: Single

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Subject: Report on Explosion in the new Corning House

Document Date: 19/04/1801

PRO Reference: Supply 5/220

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1. Joseph Gibbs, along with 8 other men and 4 horses, was killed on the 18th April 1801, in a tremendous explosion when the new Corning House blew up (Letter to the Board - Supply 5/220 dated the 19th April 1801). 2. Supply 5/194 - a Petition dated the 24th April 1801 - recorded that Joseph's mother, Elizabeth, along with another mother and the widows, requested "relief in their distress." 3. Supply 5/220 dated the 29th April 1801 was a Report on the ages of children and circumstances of widows concerned. It said that Joseph's mother, Elizabeth Gibbs, who was 47 and Joseph's next of kin, was infirm and had been supported by her son. 4. Elizabeth was awarded a weekly pension of 2/-d (Winters, p.58).