John Gilbert (abt. 1570 - 1615)

Born about 1570 in Staffordshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died Aug 1615 at about age 45 in Woodford, Essex, England [uncertain]

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Biography

This profile is part of the Gilbert Name Study.

"The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire" record John Gilbert, the son of John Gilbert of Frodley, as a citizen and Haberdasher of London who died without issue.^[1]

In 1612, John Gilbert of Woodford, gent., entered into a covenant between himself, Thomas Boothby, sen., cititzen and merchant taylor of London and George Stondon of Downham, formerly of Chingford, yeo. regarding the copyhold of the manor of Chingford. ^[2]

891. The King to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. 1606. [Mar. 30.] Add. Papers, Ireland. ¶Has received the petitions of John Gilbert and Thomas Bouthby, citizens of London, showing that there is due to His Majesty by sundry persons in Ireland divers sums of money, for recovery whereof they have often travelled thither, but have been compelled to return without any satisfaction, although most part of their said debtors are of ability to pay their debts. Requires the Lord Deputy therefore to call such debtors before him, and compel them to make satisfaction of their debts, with reasonable allowances to their creditors for their charges and expenses in recovering the same, which if they shall refuse to do, not showing any sufficient cause, he is to send them over to this realm to answer the same according to law.^[3]

John's uncle William Boothby lived and was buried in St. Lawrence Jewry, so it is likely that John found his way there through family connections.^[4]

The Will of John Gilberd, Gentleman of Woodford, Essex was made on 16 Aug 1615 and proved on 31 Aug 1615.^[5]The Essex Institute Historical Collections Vol XVII - XVIII, p 48, cites the will:^[6]

To be buried in the Church of St. Laurence, London; brother Thomas Gilbert; manor or rectory of Carnow als Cranoe, Co. Montgomery, and lease of the rectory at Towin Merioneth; Co. Merioneth; cousins (often used to mean nephews at that time) John, Walter, Henry and William, sons of said brother Thomas; sister Ann Cooke wife of R. Cooke; sister Dorothy Holmes wife of Humfrey Holmes; sister Margaret Byrd wife of Walter Byrd; sister Sarah Perkins wife of Richard Perkins; two daughters of brother Thomas Gilbert, Ann and Dorothy; cosen Elizabeth Swynton, wife of James Swynton, cozen Joyce Dade [note: The 1629 PCC Will of Joyce Dade, Widow of London, names brother Richard Bothbie and wife Elizabeth Bothbie so Joyce is a couisn on his mother's side], uncle John Dade; my four sisters' children.

A John Gilbert, grocer, was buried at St. Laurence Jewry in London in August (no day recorded) 1615.^[7]

1658: Farmer v Grymes:^[8]

Plaintiffs: John Farmer and others.

Defendants: Mary Grymes widow.

Subject: will and personal estate of the deceased John Gilbert (alias John Gilberd), of Wood, Essex, and Alrewas, and Fradley, Staffordshire.

Document type: bill, answer.

Research Notes

John Guillim's Display of Heraldry lists: "Argent, on a Chevron between three Leopard's Faces Sable, as many Roses, Or, was confirmed by William Segar Anno 1609, to John Gilbert of Woodford in Essex, who was buried at St. Laurence Jury near Guild-hall, London."^[9] Since John Gilbert's will connects him to both the burial at St. Laurence Jewry and to the Frodley Gilberts, it is difficult to understand why he would be using these arms which belong to a different, Colchester based, Gilbert family and used by William Gilbert as shown here so it is assumed to be an error.

The grant detail was: Confirmed 1609, by Segar. Harl. MS. 1422, fo. 42b ; Add, MS. 12,225, fo. 46b ; Guil., p. 262.^[10]

A John Gilbert does not appear in the Gilbert Pedigree in the Visitations of Essex.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ St. George, R., Grazebrook, H. Sydney (Henry Sydney)., Dugdale, W., Book Traces Project. (1885). The heraldic visitations of Staffordshire made by Sir Richard St. George: Norroy, in 1614, and by Sir William Dugdale, Norroy, in the years 1663 and 1664. London: Mitchell and Hughes.
2. ↑ Reference: D/DQ 53/87, Essex Record Office, BOOTHBY FAMILY OF CHINGFORD Fonds https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/result_details.aspx?ThisRecordsOffSet=1&id=146191
3. ↑ "Additional Papers." Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1603-1606 . Eds. C W Russell, and John P Prendergast. London: Longman and Co, 1872. 589-592. British History Online. Web. 27 May 2021. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/ireland/1603-6/pp589-592.
4. ↑ Will of William Boothby, citizen of London, 1597, transcription in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica; Bannerman, W. Bruce (William Bruce); Hughes Clarke, A. W. (Arthur William),1916, p. 10.
5. ↑ Will of John Gilberd, Gentleman of Woodford, Essex Ref PROB 11/126/140 at the National Archives (image on Ancestry.co.uk]
6. ↑ Essex Institute. Essex Institute historical collections. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute; digitized on HathiTrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435069736858&view=1up&seq=62&q1=frodley
7. ↑ Parish Register, St Lawrence Jewry City of London, England. Image on Ancestry.com.
8. ↑ C 6/31/35 at the National Archives
9. ↑ A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim; T.W., 1724, p 262. Digitized and available on-line through Google Books.
10. ↑ Grantees of arms named in docquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth century : in the manuscripts preserved in the British museum, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and elsewhere : alphabetically arranged by the late Joseph Foster and contained in the Additional ms. no. 37,147, in the British museum by Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905; Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922
11. ↑ The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13 by Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles)