When Penelope Gibbs was born in 1788, in Madison, Virginia, United States, her father, Capt. Edward Churchill Gibbs, was 32 and her mother, Mary Judith Richardson, was 38. She married Richard Rixey on 2 November 1815. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died in 1872, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84.
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English: from the common medieval personal name Gibb (see Gibb ), a pet form of Gilbert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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