Editing Barry Gibb (section)

==Early years==
[[File:Barry Gibb's birth.png|thumb|right|Announcement of the birth of Barry Gibb (''Isle of Man Examiner,'' Friday September 6, 1946)]]
[[File:50 St Catherine’s Drive, childhood home of the Bee Gees.jpg|thumb|left|50 St Catherine's Drive, [[Douglas, Isle of Man]], childhood home of the Bee Gees]]
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb was born at Jane Crookall Maternity Home in [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]], Isle of Man, on 1 September 1946, to [[Hugh Gibb]] (15 January 1916 – 6 March 1992), a drummer, and Barbara Gibb ({{nee}} Pass; 17 November 1920 – 12 August 2016), both [[Manchester]] natives.<ref name="born">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uzv_AgAAQBAJ&q=jane+crookall+maternity+home+bee+gees&pg=PT27 |title=The Bee Gees |author1=Melinda Bilyeu |author2=Hector Cook |author3=Andrew Môn Hughes |date=January 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=9780857128942 }}</ref> He has English, Irish and Scottish ancestry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/robin-gibb-63/|title=Featured Articles – Robin Gibb |publisher=TheGenealogist.co.uk |date=22 December 1949 |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> Gibb's grandfather Hugh Gibb Sr. was born in [[Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] in 1892.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/robin-gibb-63/|title=Robin Gibb on Genealogist |access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref> He has an older sister, Lesley Evans. His second name, "Alan", was after his father's youngest brother who died in infancy. According to Hugh Gibb, in a mix of fact and fiction, his third name, "Crompton", was given to honour the Gibbs' ancestor Sir Isaac Crompton (actually [[Samuel Crompton]]).<ref>Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook and Andrew Môn Hughes, ''The Ultimate Biography of the Bee Gees'', Omnibus Press, 2001</ref>

When Gibb was born, his father was busy as a musician working at various hotels in Douglas, while his mother stayed at home looking after the children. Later, the Gibbs moved to Chapel House on Strang Road. When he was almost two years old, he was badly scalded in an accident involving a hot teapot his mother had just set on the table, which he was able to reach and knock over. He was in Nobles Hospital for about two and a half months. Gibb later commented on that incident:

{{blockquote|Then the gangrene set in. Because in those days, the advancement of medicine simply didn't apply to people with bad scalds, so you didn't have skin grafts, you didn't have things like that. But this was a particularly bad scald, and I think I had 20 minutes to live at some point. The incredible thing for me is that whole two years is wiped from my memory, the whole period of being in hospital. The idea of being burnt is in there somewhere, but I have no knowledge of it. I've got the scars but I have no knowledge.<ref name="born"/>}}

In 1949, the Gibb family relocated to 50 St. Catherine's Drive.<ref name="hughes2009"/> Later that year, on 22 December, Gibb's two younger brothers [[Robin Gibb|Robin]] and [[Maurice Gibb|Maurice]] were born. When the twins were young, the family moved to Smedley Cottage, Spring Valley, also in Douglas.<ref name="hughes2009">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KugbDQHX0R8C&pg=PT66 |title=The Bee Gees – Tales of the Brothers Gibb |last=Hughes |first=Andrew |date=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=9780857120045}}</ref>

Gibb started school on 4 September 1951, three days after his fifth birthday, attending Braddan School. In 1952, the Gibb family relocated to 43 Snaefell Road, Willaston, which became their home for the next two years. The same year, he went to Tynwald Street Infants School. On his seventh birthday in 1953, he went to Desmesne Road Boys School.<ref name="born"/>