Peter Hibbs

Peter Kenney Hibbs was an English mariner and a member of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.

Peter, the son of Mary Kenney, was born in England in about 1757 at Ramsgate, Kent. OnDecember 1760, at the parish church of St LawrenceinThanet, Ramsgate, his mother married George Hibbs, a native of Swanage, a seaside town in Dorset. Peter was to be raised as George Hibbs son and was given his surname. The family moved the more than 200 miles back to Swanage. OnJanuary 1762, Peter was baptized at the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Swanage, as Peter Kennel Hibbs, the son of George and Mary Hibbs.

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