Lost a husband

[KiwiChris]

Gabrielle Eva Hill b 1867 Ealing daughter of Alfred and Annie AA Hill married Rev Frederick John Gibbings in Hampstead 1910. She is listed in FreeBMD as both Hill and Sawyer. She was divorced by Frederick John Gibbings in 1919 because he did not know she was previously divorced and because she would not join him in Australia. Given the marriage was registered with both her surnames, I assume he thought she was widowed.
She married for a third time, Russell Paddon in 1920. That gives her maiden name as Hill and also divorced wife of FJ Gibbings. FJG married again for the 4th time in Australia, but we won't go there. :) I have all his wives except this one sorted!

So who was Mr Sawyer and when did she marry him? Between 1912 and 1919 she does make a few trips to New York as Gabrielle Gibbings, so I am wondering if perhaps he was American, although I can't find her sailing as either Hill or Sawyer before that.

She appears as Hill on the 1871 and 1881 census, then I can't find her after that.

[kiterunner]

Eva Gabrielle Hill marriage entry Jun 1885 Brentford, with Charles Sawyer as one of the matching entries.

[kiterunner]

And TNA Catalogue has an entry for Divorce Court File: 7751. Appellant: Eva Gabrielle Sawyer. Respondent: Charles Sawyer. Type: Wife's petition for divorce [wd].
Covering dates 1907

[KiwiChris]

ooo, thanks. How did I miss that marriage, I thought I had tried all of the possible combinations of names. :o

[KiwiChristopher]

Just going through my family Bilble, Frederick John Gibbings , is my great uncle, he went off to Sydney and married for a fourth time , died in 1958 in Sydney. I have a few clues about her , but would be very interested in her history.

[KiwiChris]

Hi Christopher and welcome to the site!

I will have to go back through my notes and see what I have on this family, I am not related but am involved in researching C of E clergy serving in Australia and New Zealand.

I will check tonight and post what I have, but it will likely be more about him than her, although reading what I have written here, I have done a bit of work on her.

[KiwiChristopher]

Thanks, I would be interested if the is a connection to the surname of Suisted, which I seen to remember from the years ago when I first heard about him.

[KiwiChris]

Yes, I think she was wife number 4.

He married i) Sarah Annie Knighton SKEAVINGTON (at marriage SKEAVINGTON WESTON) born c1872 Cotmanhay Derbyshire, died Dec ¼ 1901, daughter of
Robert Knighton SKEAVINGTON farmer;
married ii) 23 Apr 1902 Christchurch, Harriett Letitia WALKER née THORNE, widow of Isidore Joseph WALKER, bank cashier died 1898, She was born c1851Barnes Surrey died 17 Jul 1909 Norfolk. First daughter of Benjamin THORNE of Stanfield Bournemouth brewer, & Mary born France;
(iii)Mar ¼ 1910 London and divorced 1919, Gabrielle Eva SAWYER née HILL who had married 1885 & divorced 1907 Charles SAWYER photographic manufacturer, she married 1920 Russell PADDON born 1867 Ealing, daughter of [the Revd] Alfred HILL dental surgeon and Baptist minister & Annie;
(iv) 1923 Janet Eleanor SUISTED born1876 died 1966 daughter of Eckermann
Selby SUISTED

[Rick]

Eva Gabrielle Hill marriage entry Jun 1885 Brentford, with Charles Sawyer as one of the matching entries.

A little more detail....

They married 21 May 1885 at St Matthews, Ealing Common. The marriage was dissolved 27 Jul 1908 on the ground of his cruelty and adultery.