Edward Elliston

Edward Elliston

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  1. 1.  Edward Elliston was born on 30 Aug 1696 in London, England; was christened on 31 Aug 1696 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London (son of Oliver Elliston and Hester Gibbon); died on 08 Jun 1747 in Brentwood, Essex; was buried on 13 Jun 1747 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey.

    Notes:

    --- "London Journal" 31 May 1729:
    . . . and the Lynn, Capt. Edward Eliston, bound for China.

    --- "Daily Journal" 6 Jul 1730:
    LONDON. Yesterday Morning the Purser of the Lynn, Capt. Elliston, from China, arrived in Town, having left the said Ship the Day before near Dover.

    --- "Kentish Weekly Post" 30 Oct 1731, page 1:
    From the Whitehall Even. Post Oct. 28.
    Yesterday the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company were pleased to appoint Capt. Brown Commander of their Ship the Lynn in the room of Capt. Edward Ellistone, who hath resign'd.

    --- "General Advertiser" 11 Jun 1747, page 1:
    On Monday last died, at his Seat near Brentwood in Essex, after a tedious Indisposition, Edward Elliston, Esq; a Gentleman possess'd of a very plentiful Fortune, which he chiefly acquir'd with very great Credit and Reputation, in the Service of the East-India Company.

    --- "Dundee Courier" 5 Jan 1933, page 12:
    Men and Women of To-Day
    Dundee M.P.'s Bride.

    In marrying a member of Parliament from Cornwall Miss Dorothy Elliston, whose wedding to Mr. Dingle M. Foot takes place at Ipswich on Saturday, is repeating a chapter in her own family history. Catherine Elliston, daughter of Captain Edward Elliston of Overall Manor, near Sudbury, Suffolk, married in 1756 Edward Eliot, M.P. for Cornwall. He afterwards became the first Baron Eliot of St. Germans, and his son was the first Earl of St Germans. This Catherine Elliston's mother was Catherine Gibbon, aunt of the famous historian of the Roman Empire. Many politicians will attend the wedding on Saturday, and Dundee guests will include Lord Provost Buist and Mrs Buist, Mr Harry Johnston and Mrs Johnston, and Mr and Mrs John Martin.

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    --- "Records of Fort St. George Diary and Consultation Book, 1726, Madras Record Office:
    Fort St. George, February 1725-1726
    page 17: "Paid Captain Elliston for Ten Soldier's Diet that came from Vizagaptam . . . 7 28
    page 22: "Feb. 20 Ship Lynn Capt. Edward Elliston Commander sailed for London and Carried a paequet for ye Honble Court of Directors.

    --- "Private Trade Between England and China in the Eighteenth Century" by Earl H. Pritchard, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1957, page 221:
    The Export Trade
    . . . The private trade of Captain Elliston of the Lynn (480 tons) in 1729-30 consisted of 886 ounces of gold (2,500 pounds), 58 piculs of tea (450 pounds), chinaware (318 pounds), arrack (120 pounds), 300 bundles of rattans (15 pounds), 90 cwt. of mother-of-pearl (130 pounds), 50 handkerchiefs (40 pounds), and fans, pictures, lacquered ware, etc (171 pounds), a total of 3,744 pounds --- tls. 11,232.

    --- https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4911020
    Live Auction 1828, 22 May 2007
    Lot 169
    A Very Fine George II Silver Salver, Mark of Paul de Lamerie, London, 1739.
    Price Realised: $240,000

    Lot Essay: Edward Elliston was in the Marine Service of the East India Company. From 1714 to 1721, he served on Dartmouth as 5th, 3rd, and finally 1st mate. He became Captain of the ship Lynn in 1724, serving intermittently until 1732. . . .

    Edward married Catherine Gibbon on 27 Dec 1733 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Catherine (daughter of Edward Gibbon and Catherine "Esther" Acton) was born before 11 May 1710; was christened on 11 May 1710 in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London; died on 24 Feb 1743/44; was buried on 02 Mar 1743/44 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Notes:

    Married:
    • "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1697-1740, 123):
    Edward Elliston of the parish of St. Peter Cornhill London, Bachelor, and Catharine Gibbon of Putney in the County of Surrey, Spinster, were married with a License from the Archbishop's Office in this Cathedral Church the 27 day of December 1733 by me (Williams Gibbon) . . . present Wm. Reyner

    Children:
    1. Catherine Elliston was born on 04 Aug 1735 in Charterhouse Yard, Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; was christened on 15 Sep 1735 in Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; died on 23 Feb 1804 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 01 Mar 1804 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall.
    2. John Elliston was christened on 27 Apr 1740 in St. Michael's, Bassishaw, London; was buried on 24 Mar 1740/41 in St. Michael's, Bassishaw, London.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Oliver Elliston was born in Bef. 17 Apr 1664; was christened on 17 Apr 1664 in Gestingthorpe, Essex (son of Peter Elliston and Judith Kedington); died before 10 Jul 1706; was buried on 10 Jul 1706 in All Hallows, Barking By the Tower, London.

    Notes:

    --- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, edited by John Nichols, 1870, page 426:
    We now recur to Peter, who, on the failure of his brother John's issue in 1653, succeeded to the representation of the family.

    This Peter Elliston was baptized in 1626, and died in 1672. He left three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver.
    Peter the second son died in 1680.
    Oliver the third son was of St. Paul's church-yard. He married in 1692 Hester daughter of Matthew Gibbon and his wife Hester, and had a son, Capt. Edward Elliston of South Weald, co. Essex.

    John the eldest son of Peter was born in 1659, succeeded to the Overhall property, and died in 1691, leaving three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and four daughters all under age (will pr. in P.C.C.).
    The sons Peter and Oliver died in 1691.
    John the eldest and only surviving son succeeded to the family property, and died in 1738-9 without issude, leaving his cousin, Edward Elliston, his heir (will proved in P.C.C.).

    This was the Capt. Edward Elliston above mentioned as the son of Oliver Elliston and his wife Hester, nee Gibbon.

    --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 82, Supp. 1797, page 1107:
    [Part of an article, "Memoirs of the Family of Mr. Gibbon the Historian"]
    . . . Mr. Matthew Gibbon had issue, by Hesther, his wife, one daughter, Hesther, married to Oliver Elliston, of St. Paul's church-yard, stationer.

    --- UK Directories on Ancestry:
    Name: Oliver Elliston
    Dates: 1701-1725
    Location: London
    Occupation(s): stationer book/paper/printing trades(s)
    Source Date: 1706
    Source Info: Subscribed to A complete History of England ... to the death of ... King William, 1706, HUGHES, John. London; Subject: history

    Oliver married Hester Gibbon on 11 Jun 1692 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London. Hester (daughter of Matthew Gibbon and Hester Abrahall) was born before 14 May 1676; was christened on 14 May 1676 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London; died before 07 Apr 1713; was buried on 07 Apr 1713 in St. Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Hester Gibbon was born before 14 May 1676; was christened on 14 May 1676 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London (daughter of Matthew Gibbon and Hester Abrahall); died before 07 Apr 1713; was buried on 07 Apr 1713 in St. Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

    Notes:

    Married:

    Marriage Record Transcription:
    Oliver Elliston of St Faith's, and Hestor Gibbons of St Olaves Honn[?] Street married.

    Children:
    1. Ann Elliston was born on 03 Jul 1693 in London, England; was christened on 03 Jul 1693 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London.
    2. Peter Elliston was born on 10 Aug 1694 in Newgate, London, England; was christened on 10 Aug 1694 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London.
    3. 1. Edward Elliston was born on 30 Aug 1696 in London, England; was christened on 31 Aug 1696 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London; died on 08 Jun 1747 in Brentwood, Essex; was buried on 13 Jun 1747 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey.
    4. Hester Elliston was born on 02 Aug 1698 in London, England; was christened on 04 Aug 1698 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London; died on 10 Nov 1737; was buried in Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Wales.
    5. Oliver Elliston was born on 07 Oct 1699 in London, England; was christened on 12 Oct 1699 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London.
    6. Richard Elliston was born on 20 Feb 1700/01; was christened on 02 Mar 1700/01 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London.
    7. Elizabeth Elliston was born on 26 Dec 1702 in London, England; was christened on 31 Dec 1702 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London; died in May 1757; was buried in Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Wales.
    8. Catherine Elliston was born on 01 Jun 1705; was christened on 29 Jun 1705 in Christ Church, Greyfriars Newgate, London; died in 1752; was buried in Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Wales.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Peter Elliston was christened in 1626 (son of John Elliston and Elizabeth Sparrow); died in 1672; was buried in St. Mary the Virgin, Gestingthorpe, Essex.

    Notes:


    --- Memorial Transcription of Elliston Stone at St. Mary the Virgin, Gesstingthorpe, Essex:
    Underneath this stone lyeth John Elliston of Overhall, in this Parish, who departed this life the 26 day of June in the year of our Lord 1691, in the two and thirtieth year of his Age. Mary his first wife dyed in Childbed of her first child she and her son lyeth buried in the Parish of Steeple Bumsted in this county and Ann his Second wife who Survived him and by her three sons and four daughters but since dyed his youngest son Oliver, the 29 day of July and after him his second son Peter the 15th of September, both in the same year, all three lyeth buried under this, and just by lyeth buried Peter Elliston the Father of the said John Elliston who departed this life in the year 1672, his issue he left behind him was three Sons, John, Peter and Oliver. Peter his second son departed this life in the year 1680 and lyeth buried in Lumber Street Church in London, there is now living in the Family, only John Elliston, the eldest son of the said John Elliston and Oliver Elliston, the youngest son of the said Peter Elliston, and the four Daughters of John Elliston, which is Anna, Bathca Judeth, Frances, and Susanna, which are now living.

    --- "The History and Topography of the County of Essex" by Thomas Wright, 1836, page 537:
    In 1608, Overhall was sold to John Sparrow, Esq. of this parish, second son of John Sparrow, of Sible Hedingham, who, in 1622, disposed of it to John Elliston the elder, and John Elliston the younger, his son, clothiers, of Sible Hedingham.

    The ancestor of this family, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was John Elliston, mercer, of Sudbury, who had a capito mansion-house in Castle Hedingham; and an estate in Great Henny, called Nicholls, which he left to his eldest son, William, by will, dated 1586. His second son, John, became the most considerable person of the family. The daughters were, Elizabeth, married to William Kidgell, and Joan and Dorothy.

    John Elliston, the son, being an eminent clothier, by persevering industry acquired a captial estate.* On his death, in 1630, he left Anne, married to Thomas, second son of William Soame, of Hundon, in Suffolk; and John, his son and heir, who resided at Overhall; he married Winifred, the daughter of Robert Barrington, Esq. by whom he had Peter, Oliver Elliston, M.D. who married the widow of William Sparrow, and died in London in 1665, and several other children, who died in infancy, or before reaching maturity.

    Peter, the eldest surviving son, married Judith, daughter of William Kedington, of Waldingfield, in Suffolk, by whom he had John, Peter, and Oliver. John, the eldest son and heir, had two wives; first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Mortlock, of Sturmere, who died in childbed, and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Robert Wangford, Esq. of Barwick Hall, in Toppesfield, by whom he had John, Oliver, and Peter, of whom the two last died in the year 1691, and four daughters; Anna Bertha, married to William Steel, of London; Judith, to Arthur Brown, merchant; and Frances and Susan. John Elliston, the father, died in 1691; and his son John, the last of the family succeeded.

    The estate afterwards became the property of Mr. Thomas Walker, of Church House, in Henney.

    * Besides the manor of Overhall, he had that of Hawkswood in Sible Hedingham.

    Peter married Judith Kedington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Judith Kedington
    Children:
    1. John Elliston was born in 1659; died on 26 Jun 1691; was buried in St Mary the Virgin, Gestingthorpe, Essex.
    2. Peter Elliston died on 16 Apr 1680; was buried on 19 Apr 1680 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London.
    3. 2. Oliver Elliston was born in Bef. 17 Apr 1664; was christened on 17 Apr 1664 in Gestingthorpe, Essex; died before 10 Jul 1706; was buried on 10 Jul 1706 in All Hallows, Barking By the Tower, London.

  3. 6.  Matthew Gibbon was christened on 23 Feb 1642 in Westcliffe, Kent (son of Thomas Gibbon and Alice Taylor); died on Bef. Oct 1698.

    Notes:

    --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 63, 1788, page 698-702:
    Matthew Gibbon (third son of the second wife) was baptised at Westcliffe, Feb. 23, 1642, and was brought up to Merchandise in London, by which he acquired a handsome fortune, and left issue, Edward Gibbon, esq., a South Sea Director, etc.

    --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 82, 1797, page1107:
    XIII. Matthew Gibbon, thus entered in Westcliffe register: "Matthew, the son of Thomas Gibbon and Alice, baptized Feb. 23, 1642." He was a linen-draper, in Leadenhall-street. He had some concern, or property, in the estate at Westcliffe; for I find, amongst the papers of his nephew, Mr. John Coppin, who was a lawyer, the following notes: "Laid out for my uncle, Matthew Gibbon, to Jan. 6, 1675. -- Notice to Mr. Master -- Horse-hire to Westcliffe, when the seizure was made -- Messenger to Westcliffe, to deliver the letter to Mr. Master."
    His widow, whom the Historian calls "an active and notable woman," re-married Richard Acton, goldsmith, whom she also survived, as Mrs. Bradford calls her widow. Her maiden name I have not discovered. Matthew Gibbon was dead on Sept. 14, 1709; for, by a deed of that date, between "Philip Gibbon, of London, gent. and Deborah Bradford, of the same, widow, only surviving issue of Thomas Gibbon, late of Westcliffe, in the county of Kent, by Alice, his wife, who was sister to Dame Jane Maynard," of the one part; and John Bridges, of Gray's Inn, esq. on the other part; after reciting, that, according to a settlement by Lady Maynard, an estate in Romney-Marsh was, upon the death of James Codd, without issue, descended to the said Philip, and Mrs. Bradford, as the only living children of Thomas Gibbon and Alice; the said Mr. P. Gibbon, and Mrs. Bradford, release all their right to Mr. Brydges, who had married their niece, Jane Gibbon. Mr. Matthew Gibbon had issue, by Hesther, his wife, one daughter, Hesther, married to Oliver Elliston, of St. Paul's church-yard, stationer . . . and two sons, of whom Thomas, the younger [sic], was afterwards dean of Carlisle; and Edward, the eldest . . . was a contractor for cloathing King William's army in Flanders, afterwards a commissioner of the customs, and a South Sea Director. . . . He died at Putney, Dec. 25, 1736, and his name is recorded in the Gent. Mag. Vol. VI p. 749, the name being, by mistake, printed Gibson.

    --- "Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794" by D.M. Low, 1937, page 8-9:
    Gibbon tells us that whereas his grandfather had received his education in the rough school of affairs he prepared his son for the considerable fortune which should come to him by sending him to Westminster, where he might become an elegant scholar and would certainly mingle with the highest ranks of society. It would be wrong, however, to infer for this that Edward Gibbon the first was a man of no education or too humble a position. For the greater part of his life Gibbon was remarkable ignorant and indifferent about his family history, and confesses that for all he knew his grandfather might have been a cottager's son or a foundling. The truth of the matter was very different.

    Matthew Gibbon, the historian's great-grandfather, was the son of a landowner at Westcliffe in Kent, whose grandfather had bought the property in Queen Elizabeth's reign. The family was believed to have been well established in the Weald of Kent long before that, and it is therefore possible that Gibbon my after all be descended from the Gibbons of Rolvenden, though not by the line which he claims in his Autobiography.

    Mattew was one of several children, and coming to London in the second half of the seventeenth century, is said to have made a fortune as a linen-draper in Leadenhall. At the age of twenty-five he married Hester Abrahall of All Hallows, Barking. Of his five children the two daughters made good marriages and one son, Thomas, went from St. Paul's School to St. John's, Cambridge, and became Dean of Carlisle. It is not improbable that Edward also went to St. Paul's.*

    *Gardiner, "Register of St. Paul's School", gives an Edward Gibbon who was at the school under Dr. Gile, i.e. 1672-97, and was a Steward of the Feast in 1701. There was another son, Matthew, who was 'not right in his head'. Gibbon appears aware of only two sons and one daughter. He does not seem to know that his aunt Catherine married her first cousin, since Edward Elliston's mother was Matthew's daughter, Hester.

    --- "Notes and Queries" 01 Sep 1951, page 391:
    Gibbon Family: Portrait. -- On December 11th 1909, a number of portraits of the Gibbon family, the property of the then Lord Sheffield, were sold at Christie's. They were bought by various dealers and since then, all trace of most of them seems to have been lost.
    I am preparing an edition of the letters of Edward Gibbon, and as some of the portraits would make very interesting illustrations to the book, I should be very grateful if any of your readers could give me any information as to the present whereabouts of the following: the numbers attached to each item are taken from Christie's catalogue of the sale on December 11th, 1909:
    60. Edward Gibbon in a blue coat and buff vest. Bought Parsons.
    61. Mrs. Edward Gibbon in a in a blue and white dress. Bought Sutton.
    87. Edward Gibbon in brown dress with white cravat. By T. Hudson. Bought Agnew.
    88. Mrs. Edward Gibbon holding a lamb. By T. Hudson. Bought Leggatt.
    124. Matthew Gibbon in a yellow gown. By R. Wignall. Bought T. Permain.
    signed, Miss J.E. Norton

    --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" July 1789, Vol. 59, Part 2, page 585- :
    June 22.
    Mr. Urban,
    As you did me the honour to insert, vol. LVIII. p. 698, the account I sent you of the families of Gibbon and Yorke, I now send you a few additions, which I then either forgot or did not know . . .

    Alice (wife of Thomas Gibbon, esq.) the great-grandmother of the Historian, must have been dead in 1651; for then her husband was married again to Mary, daughter of Robert Osborne, of Hartlip, gent. and, having given up his mansion at Westcliffe to his eldest son, retired to her estate at Hartlip. The said Alice was one of the daughters of Cheney Selherst, of Tenterden, esq. Her sister Jane married, 1st Edward Austen, esq.* and afterwards Sir John Maynard, of Gubbersbury, knt. appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal (not Lord Keeper), March 2, 1688. He survived her many years, for she died, March 28, 1688**; he, at Gunnersbury, Oct. 9, 1690.

    Edward Gibbon, esq. first husband of the mother of the Chancellor, died about 1677, and was buried in the church of Greenwich, Kent. She could have been married to him but a short time, for his first wife did not die till 1674. However, she had a son by him of the name of Philip (who died a youth), half brother both to Mrs. Brydges and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. The latter, the issue of her second husband, was born 1690.

    Matthew Gibbon, the Historian's grandfather, seems himself to have had some share in the estate at Westcliffe, which I can no otherwise account for, than by supposing his father died intestate, and that he took his part in the estates as co-heir by gavelkind.

    . . . Matthew Gibbon had a handsome house at Putney, the same (I have been told) which afterwards belonged to Mr. Wood, who published the Ruins of Palmyra, and which his widow lately pulled down. The family have a vault in the church there.

    I shall now throw together a series of dates, &c. collected from various volumes of your useful Magazine ---
    . . . "Phylip Gibbon, M.P. for Rye, in Sussex, died Mar. 12, 1762. He sat in eleven parliaments." Gent. Mag. for that year; and see vol. LVIII p. 834.
    In the Bibliotheca Topographica, No. XLV I find the following epitaph, which, that I may throw all that regards this family together, I here transcribe, though it does not seem perfectly to agree with the account given by Philpot, in Vill. Cant. p. 196.
    Inscription on a brass plate in the possession of John Beardsworth, esq. of the Hole, in Rolvenden, Kent, and taken from that church:
    Here resteth Robert Gibbon, sonne and Heire of Thomas, sonne and heirs of Gibbon Sackford, lineally and lawfully Descended from the familys of Sackford Hall in Suffolke, and Clan Gibbon*** in Ireland. Ob. XIII die Junii, anno D'ni MDCXVIII.

    * Elder brother to the ancestor of the baronets of that name.
    ** She had no issue by either husband -- Sir John must, therefore, have had another wife, for he left at least a son and daughter. The latter married Sir Duncombe Colchester, of Westbury, in the county of Gloucester, knt. The former Joseph Maynard, of Gunnersbury, esq. left two co-heirs, of whom Mary was second wife of Thomas Grey, second Earl of Stamford, though S.P. Gunnersbury, built by Inigo Jones, afterwards belonged to Mr. Furnese, of whose family it was bought for the late Princess Amelia. -- Lady Maynard devised (according to a power reserved in her marriage settlements) her estates to the issue of her two sisters successively in tail, among which were 200 acres of marsh land in Dimechurch, Joychurch, and Medley, subject to an annuity of £40 per annum to Merchant-Taylers school, which now continues to be paid by the family.
    *** Camden in Britannia, p. 984, ed. 1694, under Limerick in Ireland, says, "Near Adare stands Clan Gibbon, the lord whereof, John Fitzgerald, called John Oge Fitz John, Fitz Gibbon, and, from the grey hair of his head, the White Knight, was banished by act of parliament: but, by the clemency of Q. Elizabeth, his son was restored to his whole estate."

    Matthew married Hester Abrahall on 17 Oct 1667. Hester (daughter of Thomas Abrahall) died in 1721; was buried on 08 Mar 1720/21 in St. Mary's, Acton Round, Shropshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Hester Abrahall (daughter of Thomas Abrahall); died in 1721; was buried on 08 Mar 1720/21 in St. Mary's, Acton Round, Shropshire.

    Other Events:

    • Will: 30 Jul 1718, Will Written
    • Probate: 19 May 1721, P.C.C., London

    Children:
    1. Thomas Gibbon was christened on 05 Mar 1668/69 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London.
    2. Edward Gibbon was christened on 03 Dec 1671 in St. Andrew's, Undershaft, London; died on 25 Dec 1736 in Putney, Surrey; was buried on 31 Dec 1736 in St. Mary, Putney, Surrey.
    3. Hester Gibbon was christened on 7 Jun 1674 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London; died in Aug 1674; was buried on 25 Aug 1674 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London.
    4. 3. Hester Gibbon was born before 14 May 1676; was christened on 14 May 1676 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London; died before 07 Apr 1713; was buried on 07 Apr 1713 in St. Augustine the Less, Bristol, Gloucestershire.
    5. Ann Gibbon died in Jun 1678; was buried on 23 Jun 1678 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London.
    6. Elizabeth Gibbon was christened on 09 Jan 1680/81 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London; died in 1759; was buried in St. Mary's, Acton Round, Shropshire.
    7. Matthew Gibbon was christened on 31 May 1682 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  John Elliston was born in c. 1599 (son of John Elliston); died in 1652 in Gestingthorpe, Essex.

    Notes:

    Unsourced online pedigree states that John Elliston married Sparrow the Elder's younger sister, Elizabeth (d. 1632).

    Second wife was Joan, widow of Mr. Clench. She had daughters Ellen and Joan.

    Manor of Overhall in Gestingthorpe is mentioned in a document of conveyance (from John Sparrow, Sen., of Gestingthorpe, esq., and others, to John Elliston, sen. of Sible Hedingham, clothier and John Elliston, his son). This document is held in the Suffolk Archives (Ref. HA 517/C15)

    --- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, 1870, page 425-6:
    John Elliston, the son, was born about the end of the sixteenth century, and died in 1652. By his second wife, Mrs. Clench, widow, he appears to have had no children. By his first wife (probably one of the Sparrow family) he had three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and two daughters.

    John, the eldest son, married Winifred, daughter of Robert Barrington. He was nominated his father's executor, but died Aug. 22nd 1652, a few months after his father, without proving the will. Mrs. Winifred Elliston, therefore, as her husband's executrix, proved both his and her father-in-law's will in 1653 (P.C.C.). This circumstance explains the mistake committed by Morant and continued ever since, of representing this John Elliston as having died unmarried, and his wife Winifred, nee Barrington, as having been his father's wife and his own mother! John Elliston left one son John, and his wife Winifred with child. This son John died in 1653, and his mother Winifred had a grant of administration to his effects in P.C.C. March 1653-4. There is no account of the child of which Mrs. Winifred Elliston was pregnant at the time of her husband's death. Failing his own issue, John left his lands to his brother Peter, and failing him to his brother Oliver. Peter, John's next brother, accordingly suceeded to the Overhall property.

    Before proceeding with Peter's family, it may be interesting to mention the following points in the histories of John and Oliver: John Elliston published a translation of the following works of Jacob Bohme: "Epistles" in 1649, and "Signatura Rerum" in 1651; and at the time of his death was occupied with the translation of Bohme's "Mysterium Magnum." This was completed and published by his kinsman, John Sparrow, in 1654, who winds up his preface to it as follows:---

    To conclude, let the reader know that more than half this book was translated into English by my dear kinsman Mr. John Ellistone, who departed this life at Gestingthorpe in the county of Essex on 22nd of August 1652, about 1 of the clock in the morning, and so went into the mystery where his soul enjoyeth the frutis of his labours of love, which those shall also do that walk in the same path, and I among the rest may in my appointed time be found in Christ worthy and capable to come to the innumerable company of angels, though now I deserve to be accounted one of the unworthyest of the children of men.
    John Sparrow.

    Oliver Elliston, the youngest brother of John just noticed, married the widow of William Sparrow. In his will dated Dec. 27th 1665, and proved in P.C.C. July 14th 1666, he is described as of St. Botolph's Billingsgate, London, gent. He left his property to his two stepsons, William and John Sparrow, and his step-daughter Mary, Mrs. Fuller. His brother Peter, to whom he left only some five or ten shillings, contested the validity of the will, but without sucess.

    We now recur to Peter, who, on the failure of his brother John's issue in 1653, suceeded to the representation of the family.
    This Peter Elliston was baptized in 1626, and died in 1672.
    He left three sons, John, Peter and Oliver.
    Peter the second son died in 1680.
    Oliver the third son was of St. Paul's church-yard. He married in 1692 Hester daughter of Matthew Gibbon and his wife Hester, and had a son, Capt. Edward Elliston of South Weald, co. Essex.
    John the eldest son of Peter was born in 1659, succeeded to the Overhall property, and died in 1691, leaving three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and four daughters all under age (will pr. in P.C.C.).
    The sons Peter and Oliver died in 1691.

    John the eldest and only surviving son succeeded to the family property, and died in 1738-9 [sic] without issue, leaving his cousin, Edward Elliston, his heir (will proved in P.C.C.).

    John married Elizabeth Sparrow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Sparrow

    Notes:

    --- "The Herald and Genealogist" Vol. 5, 1870, page 425-6:
    John Elliston, the son, was born about the end of the sixteenth century, and died in 1652. By his second wife, Mrs. Clench, widow, he appears to have had no children. By his first wife (probably one of the Sparrow family) he had three sons, John, Peter, and Oliver, and two daughters.

    Son Benjamin's Baptism record lists parents as John Elliston and Elizabeth, his wife.

    Children:
    1. John Elliston died on 22 Aug 1652 in Gestingthorpe, Essex.
    2. 4. Peter Elliston was christened in 1626; died in 1672; was buried in St. Mary the Virgin, Gestingthorpe, Essex.
    3. Oliver Elliston died in 1666.
    4. Elizabeth Elliston died in Bef. 27 Jul 1752.
    5. Benjamin Elliston was christened on 24 Apr 1632 in Gestingthorpe, Essex.

  3. 12.  Thomas Gibbon was born in 1590 (son of Philip Gibbon and Elizabeth Philpot); died in 1671; was buried on 19 Nov 1671 in Westcliffe, Kent.

    Notes:

    --- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 82, 1797, page1108:
    Alice, the 2d wife of Thomas Gibbon; the mother of these nine last children, was buried at Westcliffe May 31, 1648; and her husband married, a third time, to Mary, daughter of Robert Osborn, of Hartlip, gent. who survived him, dying Oct. 22, 1678. On this marriage, Thomas Gibbon resided at Hartlip, probably giving up his mansion at Westcliffe to his eldest son. He lived to the great age of 81, and was brought to Westcliffe to by buried Nov. 19, 1671. His property was considerable: I find him sometimes written "Thomas Gibbon, gent." and sometimes "Thomas Gibbon, esq." On Dec. 20, 1647, he bought the manor of Kingston, on Barham-downs, of Sir Anthony Aucher, of Bourne, for £2,850 and this estate still belongs to his descendants. In 1698, he sold to the trustees of Lady Maynard's settlements, lands in Ivychurch, Medley, &c. in Romney-Marsh, for £2,754.

    Thomas married Alice Taylor on 15 Oct 1635 in Westcliffe, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 13.  Alice Taylor
    Children:
    1. Mildred Gibbon was born in Abt. 1636; was christened in 1636.
    2. Edward Gibbon was born on 9 Oct 1637 in Westcliffe, Kent; was christened on 19 Nov 1637 in Westcliffe, Kent.
    3. William Gibbon was born in 1639; died in 1642.
    4. Jane Gibbon was born in 1640.
    5. Deborah Gibbon was born on 16 Jan 1641; died on 07 Jan 1712/13.
    6. 6. Matthew Gibbon was christened on 23 Feb 1642 in Westcliffe, Kent; died on Bef. Oct 1698.
    7. John Gibbon was born in Abt. 1644; was christened on 17 Oct 1644 in Westcliffe, Kent.
    8. Thomas Gibbon was christened on 6 Jun 1647 in Westcliffe, Kent.
    9. Philip Gibbon

  5. 14.  Thomas Abrahall

    Notes:

    Listed as Thomas Abrahall of Barking.

    Children:
    1. 7. Hester Abrahall died in 1721; was buried on 08 Mar 1720/21 in St. Mary's, Acton Round, Shropshire.