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Emily Gibson and John Godfrey Grove
I’m continuing to explore what became of the children of my 5 x great uncle Bowes John Gibson, who died in 1817. In the previous post, I concluded that three daughters, Elizabeth, Emily and Matilda...
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Elizabeth Gibson and Richard Aldridge
Continuing with my exploration of the lives of the children of my 5 x great uncle Bowes John Gibson (1744 – 1817), in this post I’m returning to his daughter Elizabeth, whose story I first discussed...
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The last will and testament of Richard Aldridge (died 1848)
In the last post I wrote about Elizabeth Gibson (born 1803), daughter of my 5 x great uncle Bowes John Gibson (1744 – 1817) and his second wife Mary Catherine Bretman. Elizabeth married ship owner and...
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Elizabeth Aldridge after 1848
In the last post I shared my transcription of the will of Richard Aldridge, the lighterman and Custom House agent who died in 1848, and in the post before that I wrote about his marriage to Elizabeth...
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The Gibson-Slark connection
In the previous post about Elizabeth Aldridge née Gibson, daughter of my 5 x great uncle Bowes John Gibson (1744 – 1817) and widow of Richard Aldridge (died 1848), I noted that in 1861 she was living...
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Brothers in arms: George Milsom Gibson and John Thomas Gibson
I’ve been exploring the lives of the children of Bowes John Gibson (1744 – 1817), the East India Company broker who was the younger brother of my 5 x great grandmother Elizabeth Gibson (1733 – 1809)....
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The children of John Thomas Gibson: Rev. Charles Dockley Gibson (1818 – 1869)
The previous post explored the lives of George Milsom Gibson (1782 -1814) and John Thomas Gibson (1785 – 1852), two of the sons of my 5 x great uncle Bowes John Gibson (1744 – 1817), both of whom...
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Thomas Wheatley Gibson (1823 – 1884)
In the last post I wrote about Rev. Charles Dockley Gibson, one of the two surviving sons of Major-General John Thomas Gibson. The other son was Thomas Wheatley Gibson who followed in his father’s...
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What’s in a name? Tracing the origins of Isabella Schneider Gibson
Thomas Wheatley Gibson continued the Gibson family tradition of giving his children multiple forenames. A few of these names derive from the Gibson family – for example, the name of their son Frank...
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Looking for the Langworths
An email from Emily Buffey, a doctoral researcher in English Literature at Birmingham University, has drawn my attention back to my sixteenth-century Sussex ancestors. Emily is researching the early...
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A new website
Elizabethan village scene: Joris Hoefnagel, ‘Fete at Bermondsey’, c. 1569 Now that my historical research has strayed into investigating the lives of people only tangentially connected to my ancestors,...
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Magnus Fowle and the Lucke family
My recent explorations of Elizabethan and Jacobean recusancy have re-awakened my interest in the life my 12 x great grandfather, Magnus Fowle of Mayfield, Sussex. His daughter Agnes married Edward Byne...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 42,000...
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The last will and testament of Richard Lucke of Wadhurst, Sussex
Parish church of St Peter and St Paul, Wadhurst Last month I wrote about my maternal 12 x great grandparents, Magnus and Alice Fowle, who lived in Mayfield, Sussex, in the second half of the sixteenth...
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The family of Richard Lucke of Wadhurst
Yesterday I posted my transcription of the will of Richard Lucke of Wadhurst, Sussex, who died in 1593. I’m interested in Richard because there’s a possibility that he might be my 13 x great...
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Fowle vs. Holden: deciphering an Elizabethan legal document
Last week I mentioned that I’d taken delivery of a copy of a document relating to a case in Chancery involving my 12 x great grandparents Magnus and Alice Fowle, who lived in the village of Mayfield,...
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Alice Fowle and the Lucke family: evidence from a case in Chancery
How can the Chancery bill that I transcribed in my last post help us to understand the family background of my 12 x great grandmother, Alice Fowle of Mayfield, Sussex? One of the drawbacks of the...
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The will of John Lucke of Mayfield (died 1549)
My analysis of the Chancery case involving my 12 x great grandparents, Magnus and Alice Fowle confirmed that Alice was the daughter of Richard Lucke of Mayfield, and that he had an uncle Thomas Lucke...
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‘To Almightie god our lady saynt Mary and all the glorious company of...
In the previous post I shared my transcription of the last will and testament of John Lucke of Mayfield, Sussex, who died in 1549. I believe that John was a relative, perhaps an uncle, of my 12 x great...
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Was the witness to my ancestor’s will a renegade priest and radical preacher?
In the process of exploring the last will and testament of John Lucke of Mayfield, Sussex, who died in 1549, I had cause to look again at the will of Christopher Maunser of Hightown, Wadhurst, who died...
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