George Gibbes (abt. 1533 - 1605)

Born about 1533 in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Died 10 Feb 1605 at about age 72 in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

The Manor of Wilmcote

George Gibbes of Wilmcote (by Aston Cantlow) together with Adam Palmer (one of the executors of Robert Arden, Shakespeare’s grandfather) held in 1561–75 the manor of Wilmcote; his portion included Mary Arden’s House, which was sold by another George Gibbs in 1704.^[1]

[In] 1561, an estate described as the manor of Great Wilmcote, including Mary Arden's house and land in Shelfield, was granted by Thomas Fynderne of Nuneaton to Adam Palmer of Aston Cantlow and George Gibbs of Wilmcote. Palmer and Gibbs held jointly until 1575, when a partition was made. The descent of Palmer's portion is not known, but Gibbs's, which included Mary Arden's house, remained in the family until another George Gibbs sold it to Matthew Walford of Claverdon in 1704.^[2]

Archives

CP 25/2/235/21ELIZIHIL Foot of Fine recording the conveyance of property in Wilmcote between John and Mary Shakespeare, George Gibbs, Thomas Webbe and Humphrey Hooper. 1579.^[3]

George Gibbes occurs as overseer with Palmer to the will of Agnes Arden in 1581 and as a witness in the Archer of Tanworth deeds, 13 May 1597 (Shakespeare Centre).

Genealogical notes and queries

He may be descended from a collateral branch of the Gibbs family of Honington, for whom see Warwicks. Visitation 1619, Harleian Soc., vol. 22, 1877, p. 213, and Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dict., 1858, vol. 1, sub Gibbs of Belmont. The dau. Mary of Robert Gibbs of Wilmcote m. Henry Maunder the Yr of Aston Cantlow in 1651.

Inventory of Goods

The inventory of the goods of George Gibbs of Wilmcote is dated 17 Feb 1605 at £56:

"The inventorie of all the good & chattles of George Gibbs late of Wlincoate deceased taken & had (?/held?) the xviith day of ffebruarie 1605 by Nicholas Gibbes Adam Gibbes William Sherlock Thomas Powles Thomas Greene John Scarlett & John Whitall

Inprimis all the apparell of the ............................xix s late George Gibbs

Item all the talbe formes benches xx s

LVi li (56 pounds) 13 s (shillings) viii d (8 pence)

A date of death of 1603 sometimes given appears to be a mistranscription from E.A. Fry, Calendar of Worcester Wills and Admins, 1, 1899, 1904, 70, where it is recorded in the entry as follows: "150 Gibbes, George, Wilmcoate, Aston Cantlowe, 10 Feb 45 Q Elizabeth".

Sources

1. ↑ Parishes: Aston Cantlow', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3, Barlichway Hundred, ed. Philip Styles (London, 1945), pp. 31-42. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp31-42 [accessed 19 July 2019].
2. ↑ [[1]]
3. ↑ https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/foot-fine-recording-conveyance-property-wilmcote-between-john-and-mary-shakespeare

• Nicholas Mander, "Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family", 2011.

• 'Parishes: Aston Cantlow', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3, Barlichway Hundred, ed. Philip Styles (London, 1945), pp. 31-42. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp31-42 [accessed 19 July 2019].

• E.A. Fry, Calendar of Worcester Wills and Admins, 1, 1899, 1904, 70

• Montgomery B. Gibbs, A Golden Legacy to the Gibbs Family in America, Chicago, 1893, pp. 40-43 [2]

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp31-42#fnn11

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