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John GILBERT
Abt 1840 - Yes, date unknown
Has one ancestor and 7 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name John GILBERT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1840 Morwenstow, Cornwall, England 
Gender Male Occupation 1864 Bridge, Kent, England Railway Porter - was "of Bridge" when married so I assume he was working here
Occupation 1871 Railway guard Accident 29 Jun 1872 Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent, England Hit by a railway crane brake handle - This was reported in the Whitstable Times for 6 July 1872.
John Gilbert was then "truck inspector" (they might have meant "goods inspector" for the Faversham district of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. On Saturday 29 June he had taken a (hand worked) travelling crane to Sheerness to load a 7-ton lump of ironwork from the Dockyard on to a railway wagon. The brake failed, the handles were wrenched from the hands of the porters turning them, and the brake handle flew off and hit John Gilbert on the forehead, knocking him back several feet. The front of his skull was "battered in". He was lifted in to a first class carriage and taken by a train that was about to start to hospital in Chatham. At the time of writing the report, he had recovered consciousness, but "his restoration to health is despaired of".
In fact he must have made a better recovery and eventually gone back to work.
With thank to Tom Burnham for drawing my attention to this event.
Occupation From 1881 to 1891 Railway Inspector Died Yes, date unknown Patriarch & Matriarch 
Richard GILBERT, d. Yes, date unknown (Father)
Person ID I4481 All Last Modified 5 Jan 2016
Father Richard GILBERT, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F846 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Eliza FULLER, b. Dec Q 1846, Canterbury, Kent, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 23 Apr 1864 St. Peter’s Church, Bridge, Kent, England [1] - GRO ref: q2 1864 Bridge RD Kent 2a 933
Children6 children Last Modified 5 Jan 2016 Family ID F1561 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Sources - [S32] Bridge Parish Reigsters (KFHS transcribed data), Kent Family History Society, accessed 2 Apr 2011), entry for the marriage of Eliza Fuller to John Gilbert. (Reliability: 3).
96 1864 Apr 23 By: Banns
GILBERT John (24) Railway Porter (Ba) of otp (S of) Richard (Farmer)
FULLER Eliza (20) Servant (Sp) of otp (D of) George (Labourer)
Witn by: J Fuller, E Coleman,
- [S32] Bridge Parish Reigsters (KFHS transcribed data), Kent Family History Society, accessed 2 Apr 2011), entry for the marriage of Eliza Fuller to John Gilbert. (Reliability: 3).