THREE UNRELATED GIBSON FAMILIES NEAR DROMANA.
1. Walter Gibson and Margaret (Purdie) of "Glenholm".

2.James W. Gibson, dairyman, North Melbourne/ Brunswick; and possibly L.M.Gibson, Coburg who had land on the east side of Purves Rd, James being the grantee of c/a 24, section B, Wannaeue. (1910, 1919 rates.)

3.W.Gibson, grantee of c/a 78A, Balnarring on 22-7-1874. Ethel Bailey's mother who became Mrs Staples was a descendant of this family.
This would possibly be the grantee.
GIBSON -On the 23rd December at St. Margaret's private hospital, Hampton, William Nicholas Gibson, late of Red Hills, Dromana and Montrose, in his 81st year. (Private interment )
P.1, Argus, 27-12-1919.)
Extract from my PIONEER PATHWAY, DROMANA journal, written in 2012, when I was trying to find links between the various Gibson families.
GIBSON William and John Thomas (Red Hill) 1871
As I have only transcribed parish of Balnarring rates in 1919, I can only presume that a grantee in that parish was William Gibson. W.Gibson was granted crown allotment 78A of 190 acres 1 rood and 14 perches on 22-7-1874. It had a 1116 metre frontage to the east side of Red Hill Rd and a 1018 metre frontage to the north side of Stanleys Rd (Melway 191 G-H 3-4 roughly.) Across Red Hill Rd was John Huntley's Hillside where William Joseph McIlroy worked from about 27-9-1877 until 19-10-1890. His diary entry for 16-6-1890 said that Mrs Gibson had died so it can be assumed that she was the grantee's wife. (Extracts from W.J.McIlroy's diary in Sheila Skidmore's THE RED HILL.)