Thomas Gibson Austin 1879 - 1931

Thomas Gibson Austin was bom 11th July 1879 at 26 Peckham Grove, Camberwell in London. By 2003 that house had been demolished and replaced. His father was Thomas Justice Austin, a landscape gardener born in London Place, Manchester on November ls‘ 1838 and his mother Anne Gibson Agnew was bom 5 April 1847 in Congleton. She was a schoolteacher who had qualified in 1869. His parents were cousins as his grandmothers were sisters, daughters of Thomas & Ann Gibson of Somerford Booths near Eaton in Cheshire.