Catherine Gibbon

Bef 1710 - 1744  (> 33 years)

• Name	Catherine Gibbon
  Born	Bef 11 May 1710
  Christened	11 May 1710	St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London   [1]
  Died	24 Feb 1743/44  [2]
  Buried	02 Mar 1743/44	St. Mary, Putney, Surrey   [3]
  Person ID	I00379	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	18 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	Edward Gibbon,   c. 03 Dec 1671, St. Andrew's, Undershaft, London ,   d. 25 Dec 1736, Putney, Surrey  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Catherine "Esther" Acton,   b. Bef 29 Jan 1687/88,   d. Bef 11 Apr 1722  (Age < 34 years)
  Family ID	F00112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Husband	Edward Elliston,   b. 30 Aug 1696, London, England ,   d. 08 Jun 1747, Brentwood, Essex  (Age 50 years)
  Marriage Settlement	26 Dec 1733  [4]
  Married	27 Dec 1733	St. Paul's Cathedral, London   [5]
  • "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,   b. 04 Aug 1735, Charterhouse Yard, Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London ,   d. 23 Feb 1804, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall  (Age 68 years)   2. John Elliston,   c. 27 Apr 1740, St. Michael's, Bassishaw, London ,   bur. 24 Mar 1740/41, St. Michael's, Bassishaw, London  (Age ~ 0 years)
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2022
  Family ID	F00109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- "London Evening Post" 28 Feb 1744, page 2 On Monday last died Mrs. Elliston, Wife of Edward Elliston, Esq; an eminent Merchant in Basinghall-Street, Sister to Edward Gibbon, Esq; Member of Parliament for Southampton, and Alderman of Vintry Ward. --- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Wandsworth, St Mary, Putney, 1735-1760, 57) --- seen on Ancestry.com Mistakenly listed as Mrs. Catherine "Allinstone". --- "Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794" by D.M. Low, 1937, page 13: The little we know of Catherine Gibbon is not inconsistent with the character of Flavia. She was akin to her brother's spirit and followed him into the society of such people as the Mallets after their father's death. She married her cousin Edward Elliston. Shortly after that John Byrom came to visit Law at Putney, and a comment in his diary that it was such an absurdity to come to communion with patches and paint as no Christians would have borne formerly, is clearly intended for her. Neither she nor her husband enjoyed their world for long, and their daughter Catherine, after their death, lived with her uncle till her marriage in 1756 with Edward Eliot. --- --- "The Autobigraphies of Edward Gibbon" by Edward Gibbon, J. Murray, 1896, page 21 --- seen on Google Books: "Of my two wealthy aunts on the father's side, Hester persevered in a life of celibacy, while Catherine became the wife of Mr. Edward Elliston, a Captain in the service of the East India Company, whom my grandfather styles his nephew in his Will. Both Mr. and Mrs. Elliston were dead before the date of my birth, or at least of my memory, and their only daughter and heiress will be mentioned in her proper place. These two Ladies are described by Mr. Law under the names of Flavia and Miranda, the Pagan and Christian sister. The sins of Flavia, which excluded her from the hope of salvation, may not appear to our carnal apprehension of so black a dye. Her temper was gay and lively; she followed the fashion in her dress, and indulged her taste for company and public amusements; but her expence was regulated by economy: she practised the decencies of Religion, nor is she accused of neglecting the essential duties of a wife or a mother."

  
  

• Sources

  "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St Helens, Bishopsgate, 1700-1809, 7). "London Evening Post" 28 Feb 1744, page 2. "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Wandsworth, St Mary, Putney, 1735-1760, 57). [S8] Edward Gibbon's Will (d. 1736). "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (City of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1697-1740, 123).