Jonathan Gilbert (bef. 1665 - abt. 1713)

Descendants

Died about 1713 after about age 48 in Ireland

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Biography

Jonathan was a Friend (Quaker)

Jonathan was born before 1665, probably in England. He and his family first appear in the records for Lurgan in 1695, but it is possible they arrived a few years before that.

Lurgan records show that he and Ann had the following children:

• Mary Gilbert married George Whiteside on the 16th Dec 1699
• Ann Gilbert married a John Crookes on 4 May 1702 when both of Aghagallon and Lurgan Quakers.
• Hannah Gilbert married Morgan Wilson on the 15th May 1717
• Sarah Gilbert married John Kirk in 1720
• Jonathan Gilbert of Lurgan, shopkeeper, died in about 1747
• Stephen Gilbert of Lurgan, shopkeeper, married Christine, died in December 1737
• Thomas Gilbert (?) of Aghagallon died in about 1754

His will was probated in 1713. No surviving copy is known.

Notes

1695 Lease - Lurgan Town
20 foot in the street adjoineing to the markett house stairs leased to Jonathan Gilbert for the lives of his wife Ann, and Stevens and Jonathan junior his sons, with covenants to renew for a years rent at 20s. per annum at Michaelmas and Lady day, rest as usuall (g[?]) to join gratis to his gable, he to build equal to the market house and cover stairs, dated January 25th [16]95. 20s. 0d. 3 foot more front to bee added at 3s. more per annum. £00.03s.00d.^[1]

1696 Lurgan Quaker Meeting
Jonathan Gilbert donated £- 6-8d as a subscription to the building of a new Quaker meeting house in Lurgan.

1703 Lurgan Map
Shows the small Lurgan property on the northwest side of the market house in the centre of the town.

A Jonathan Gilbert, was a linen draper in Lurgan, County Armagh, and was a witness to a Release & Lease Deed on 11 Jul 1715.^[2]

Research Notes

There were Gilbert Quakers in Leicestershire

At Leicester Record Office worthy of checking: Copy of Register of Quaker births 1661-1771, & of deaths and burials (the burials are at Leicester, Wigston Magna, Saddington & Hinckley) 1672-1772

Leicestershire Quaker Records

Quakers in Ireland

Sources

1. ↑ "Settlement and Survival on an Ulster Estate - The Brownlow Leasebook 1667-1711" NIFHS 475/011
2. ↑ Memorial Deed 6849

• Lurgan Quaker records