Our Gibbon lineage commences with John Gibbon who was born ca 153x and died prior to 1597, both in the parish of Mappleton, East Riding, Yorkshire. His date is death relates to the time period when his name was absent from the subsidy list. This area is known as the Holderness which is located north of the river Humber on the coast of the North Sea. John married, ca 155x at Mappleton, Joan (–) who was born ca 153x and died after 1570, both at Mappleton. Her ancestry is unknown. We see John and his wife, Joan, in a sale to Thomas Robson of land, i.e., twelve acres of land and two acres of meadow by a fine (a conveyance of land thru the decree of the court) in 1570/1571. During the same time frame, John purchased of Robert Shippabotham, gentleman, in east Hatfield one messuage, on toft (homesite with adjoining land), one barn, one garden, one orchard, 50 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and forty acres of moor. The towns of Great Hatfield, Mappleton, Hornsea, Hornsea Burton, extend only four to five miles with Beeford being another six miles northwest of Hornsea. John Gibbon was a fairly successful farmer with additional income from properties he own in some of the communities. John and Joan (–) Gibbon had two known children, Peter to come and Hilary, a gentleman who was assessed for goods in Great Hatfield in the subsidy of 1597. An inquisition port mortem of Hilary Gibbon was taken, at Killiam, Yorks, on 15 January 1605 wherein testimony reflected very many land holdings, his wife Ellis (Alice), and his daughter Margaret who was the heir apparent.
References: NEHGR:V93: 24,29.

Peter Gibbon, the first child of John and Joan (–) Gibbon, was born ca 1560 in Mappleton, lived in Great Hatfield, and died in Hornsea 23 November 1607. He married, ca 1585/1586 in Great Hatfield, Margery (–) who was born in 1560 and was buried 08 September 1629 in Hornsea. Following the death of Peter Gibbon, his wife Margery married, as her second husband, in 1608 at Hornsea, William Ombler of Preston who died 29 May 1619. Margery (–) Gibbon Ombler in her will, dated 26 August 1629 and proved 06 October following, directed that she be buried at the Hornsea church, she wished to be laid next to her first husband.

Peter Gibbon had accumulated a fair holding of land and property. He had messuage and barn, three cottages and land in Great Hatfield which he had inherited from his father. He had another messuage and land which he had purchased from Lancelot Alford, Esquire. The Hornsea survey of 1608 showed that he had several properties there. Walter Carleton, who married Jane, daughter of Peter and Margery Gibbon, and Margery (–) Gibbon were appointed administrators of Peter Gibbon’s estate on 02 September 1608.

Peter and Margery (–) Gibbon had four children, all daughters, who were probably all born in Great Hatfield. First child, Isabel, was born ca 1587 and was living in 1629; she married, prior to 1607, Roger Kirkly who held lands in Hornsea with Walter Carleton. Child two was Thomasine who was born ca 1589 and married, prior to 1607, William Day. It as been suggested that William Day died early and that Thomasine married a Carleton who died and that she was the Thomasine Carleton who was licensed in 1628 to marry John Gibbon of Bridlington. Child three was Jane to come. Daughter four was Elizabeth Gibbon who was born ca 1597 and married first, on 25 May 1612, her step brother John Ombler who died 09 February 1623. Elizabeth married, as her second husband, at Preston on 28 April 1624, Thomas Collins. There was a close relationship between the Gibbon, Ombler, and Carleton families. John Ombler and Walter Carleton had been closely associated in their land transactions in Hornsea and Great Hatfield.
References: NEHGR:V93: 7, 24, 25, 28-31, 39.

Jane Gibbon, the third daughter of Peter and Margery (–) Gibbon, was born in Great Hatfield ca 1594/1595 and died after 1639 at Hornsea Burton. She married, as her first husband, at Hornsea in 1607, Walter Carleton who was bp 29 December 1582 at Beeford and died 04 October 1623 at Hornsea. Walter was the son of John and Ellen Strickland Carleton of Beeford, Yorks. Jane Gibbon Carleton married, as her second husband on 23 January 1626 at Hornsea, William Birkell, Jr. of Mappleton. As Jane Gibbon Carleton Birkell she was a legatee in the will of her mother, Margery (–) Gibbon, in 1629 and she was mentioned in 1639 in the will of her son William Carleton. She is also mentioned in Walter Carleton’s will dated 15 March 1622.
References: NEHGR:V93:11,12,16,17,23,26,30-40; MD27:53; MD6:6; FH124:16.