{"id":1173,"date":"2011-06-02T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:55:31","slug":"on-this-day-my-grandpa-hibbitts-younger-brother-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/on-this-day-my-grandpa-hibbitts-younger-brother-was-born","title":{"rendered":"On This Day&#8230; My Grandpa Hibbitt&#8217;s Younger Brother Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2ND JUNE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My grandpa&#8217;s younger brother, <strong><a title=\"Frederick Edward Hibbitt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/familytree\/fam1747.html\">Frederick Edward Hibbitt<\/a> <\/strong>(his birth certificate spelt his name as Hibbit), was born on 2nd June 1904 in Soldier&#8217;s Point, Dundalk, Ireland, where his father was stationed as a Coastguard. Frederick died at 10 months and my grandpa never mentioned him to my dad. His existence only came to light in recent years since I began researching the family. We aren&#8217;t even sure whether my grandpa remembered his brother although he would have been six years old when Frederick died on 4th April 1905. His death certificate reversed his Christian names; Edward Frederick Hibbitt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1176\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-image-1176 size-full\" title=\"The coastguard station and houses at The Soldier's Point with Cooley in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/soldiers-point.jpg\" alt=\"The coastguard station and houses at The Soldier's Point\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/soldiers-point.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/soldiers-point-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The coastguard station and houses at The Soldier&#8217;s Point with Cooley in the background<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2ND JUNE My grandpa&#8217;s younger brother, Frederick Edward Hibbitt (his birth certificate spelt his name as Hibbit), was born on 2nd June 1904 in Soldier&#8217;s Point, Dundalk, Ireland, where his father was stationed as a Coastguard. Frederick died at 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/on-this-day-my-grandpa-hibbitts-younger-brother-was-born\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[50,23],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancestors-corner","category-on-this-day","tag-hibbit","tag-hibbitt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}