Tryphaena Rowe

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Dec 1657, Shobrooke, Devon
• Christening: 6 Dec 1657, Clyst St George, Devon
• Death: 1733, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

The Rowe family was Presbyterian. Her will mentions daughters Mary Peters and Elizabeth; grand-children George Abraham, Anna, John. For notes on and pedigrees of the Rowe family, see the MS. Genealogical Collections of Henry Lord Aldenham, Vol. E, pp. 564-97. See also 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' pp. 3, n3; 6, n5; 458, nl.

Died:
Of Topsham

Tryphaena married Abraham Gibbs, of Topsham on 28 Dec 1683. Abraham (son of George Gibbs, of Pitt and Alice ?) was born on 16 Aug 1649; died in 1718; was buried on 26 Aug 1718 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Gentleman and Heir at law to Pytte
• Birth: Feb 1687
• Baptism: 8 Mar 1687, Clyst St George, Devon

Notes:

Heir at law to Pytte, but did not succeed to it. His baptism in the Parish Register of Clyste St. George is the first entry in which the surname is clearly spelt Gibbs. For a conjectural portrait of him bought in 1912 see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs. His will, proved by his widow, mentions sons George Abraham, John and daughter Anna.

Abraham married Mary Moncke on 7 Mar 1710 in Topsham, Devon. Mary (daughter of Nehemiah Moncke and Mary Baker) was born on 31 Dec 1686 in Clyst St George, Devon; died on 14 Aug 1722; was buried on 14 Aug 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Sarah Lyle on 4 Mar 1724/25 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Sarah (daughter of Robert Lyle and Mary Downe) was born on 9 Dec 1701 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Abt 1696, Topsham, Devon

Elizabeth married Mr Pett about 1717 in Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• will: 18 Jun 1746

Mary married Nicholas Peters on 15 Mar 1719 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Nicholas was born in 1694 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Surgeon

Notes:

George Abraham Gibbs of Pytte succeeded in 1744 to Pytte and other property in Clyst St. George as heir at law (after his father) to his great uncle George Gibbs, by arranging for the ending of a tenancy to the family of Rev. F. Pease, rector of the parish, created under dispositions made by the said George. In 1749 that family also transferred to him 15 acres in Clyst St. Mary (part of the "Manor of Ashmore") which were subject to the charitable charges which the same George had imposed on them. He bought Court Place in Clyst St. George, made 100 acres in that parish.
He was a Presbyterian in the early part of his life. In October 1745 he was enrolled in an Association of Exeter men in support of the King against the Young Pretender. He was one of the surgeons (eventually chief surgeon) of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter from 1747 to 1781, and thereafter on its standing committee. His residence in Exeter during his married life was in Palace Yard, Cathedral Close.
Becoming bankrupt in 1789 through the failure of business in which he was engaged with his son Antony, he lost all his property in Clyst St. George and Clyst St. Mary, including Pytte, which was bought in 1790 by his son-in-law, Rev. Charles Crawley. He used the arms of Gibbs of Fenton like his great uncle George and his cousins of Exeter.

Buried:
Register of Clyst St George, Devon, 1565-1812, Vol 25

George married Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell on 22 Dec 1747 in St Petrock's, Exeter, Devon. Anne (daughter of Anthony Vicary, Esq. and Elizabeth Munckley) was born on 4 Nov 1722 in Exeter, Devon; died on 11 Aug 1803 in Clyst St George, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: Abt 1718, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Unmarried in 1746. However, she produced an only son, Robert Remmett, by John Remmett of Crediton. There is some doubt of this, and the doubt only arises from the fact that certain deeds call his mother Susanna, but evidence mentioned in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, p. 17, n3, almost proves that she and Anna were one and the same.

Anna married John Remmett, of Crediton after 1746 in Crediton, Devon. John was born about 1711 in Topsham, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Sea Capitain
• Baptism: 19 Jan 1726, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Baptised at Topsham 19 January 1725. Died at sea 20 July 1774. Will dated 22 June 1773, proved 3 November 1778 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

His home after marriage was in Shapter Street, Topsham. Will proved by Elizabeth his widow; George Abraham Gibbs and Antony Gibbs certify. Party to a deed with his wife, her neice Elizabeth Roper, and Nathaniel George Petre, 11 December 1765.

John married Elizabeth Meachin on 13 Jan 1751/52. Elizabeth (daughter of William Meachin and Elizabeth Bury) was born before 1731; died in 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Elizabeth married Dr. Robert Butler Remmett on 26 Mar 1776 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon . Robert (son of John Remmett, of Crediton and Anna Gibbs) was born about 1746 in Plymouth, Devon; died in 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Memorial: Hayes, Kent; Memorial Inscription in church and church yard
• Residence: Middle Temple, Middlesex
• Baptism: 12 Nov 1751, Mint Chapel, Exeter
• Residence: 1788, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1789, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Title: Feb 1805; Solicitor-General
• Title: 1807; Attorney-General
• Title: Nov 1813; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer
• Title: Feb 1814; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
• Residence: 1818, St Giles in the Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Will: 6 Oct 1818; Will dated 6 Oct 1818 and proved Mar 1820 in C.P.C.

Notes:

Educated at Exeter Grammar School and (17 March 1764-70) at Eton College (King's scholar there); elected scholar King's College, Cambridge 1770; Craven scholar of the University 1772; Fellow of King's College 1774-84; B.A. 1775; M.A. 1778.

Entered as a student of Lincoln's Inn 24 August 1769. Called to the Bar 26 January 1780. A Lieut. in the Corps "Devil's Own" 1780. A "Special Pleader" for many years. Joined Western Circuit 1783. Recorder of Bristol February 1794. Assistant to Erskine (for the defendants) in the Treason trials in the autumn of 1794, when in honour of their success medals were struck bearing their portraits. King's Counsel 1794 or 5. Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales 1795-9; Attorney General to the Prince 1799-1804. Chief Justice of the court of Session of the County Palatine of Chester July 1804. Member of Parliament for Totnes, Devon, 1804-6. Solicitor General to the Government 12 February 1805-January 1806; knighted 20 February 1805; resigned office on Pitt's death January 1806; Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, 18 - 22 April 1806; for Cambridge University May 1807 to May 1812. Attorney General April 1807 - May 1812. Resigned Parliament after the murder of his friend the Premier, and was made a Serjeant-at-law and a Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas May 1812. Chief Baron of the Exchequer 8 November 1813. A Privy Councillor from 30 November 1813. Chief Justice of Common Pleas 24 February 1814 - resigned 5 November 1818. Resigned from offices of Recorder, Common Councillor, and Senior Alderman of Bristol, 1 December 1817. His 'Speech in the case of Dr. R. B. Remmett v. Archer' and 'Speeches in defence of Thomas Hardy and Horne Tooke' (1795) are printed. His successive residences after his marriage were: in Red Lion Square (Holborn); in Bloomsbury Square to 1796; 6 Bloomsbury Place from 1796; 42 Bedford Square from at least 1800; 35 Russell Square from at least 1811; 67 Russell Square from 1814. Also from at least 1802 Hayes Grove on Hayes Common, Kent.

For biographies of him see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs (and the Additions to it of 1927), the Dictionary of National Biography, books mentioned in the latter, and books mentioned in Gibbs Pedigree (1904 edition) pp. xix and xx of the Introduction.



History of Parliament website on Vicary Gibbs:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/gibbs-vicary-1751-1820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicary_Gibbs

Vicary married Lady Frances Cerjat Kenneth Mackenzie on 8 Jul 1784 in St Marylebone Chapel, London. Frances (daughter of William MacKenzie, Major and Mary Humberston) was born in 1755 in London; died on 1 May 1843 in Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bristol Merchant
• Residence: Bristol, Gloucestershire
• Death: 15 Aug 1818, England

Notes:

He was apprenticed before 1770 to his mother's first cousin, Samuel Munckley (d. 1801), a West India merchant of Bristol, and became partner with him in 1789, the firm being Munckley Gibbs and Richards. From 1802 till April 1818 (when he retired) he was head of the firm, which was styled Gibbs Richards & Gibbs, 1802-8, George Gibbs & Son 1808-18. (Search index for Richards, and Munckley who was half-brother of Sir John Duntze Bart). He was warden for 1777, Master for 1790, of the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol. A Dissenter till 1814, when he joined the Church of England. Resided in Bristol up to 1807, thereafter in the neighbouring Redland. For his life in more detail see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs. No portraits.

George married Esther Joanna Farr on 16 Oct 1776 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. Esther (daughter of Richard Farr and Joanna Portlock) was born on 25 Oct 1748 in Coombe House, Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 29 Oct 1787 in Bristol, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Anne Aleyn on 23 Jul 1795 in St Augustine's, Bristol. Anne was born on 11 Jan 1750/51 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 26 Jun 1832; was buried in Redland, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Educated at Exeter Grammar School
• Memorial: Hayes, Middlesex; Monument inscription MI in churchyard at Hayes
• Occupation: Founder of the House of Antony Gibbs & Son of London
• Residence: 14 Dec 1773, Exeter, Devon
• Will: 16 Mar 1816; Will proved in C.P.C.

Notes:

After an apprenticeship in a Spanish business in Exeter he was from 1778 to 1789 a merchant there exporting woollen cloth to Spain and elsewhere; also from 1785 to 1789 a partner in a firm styled Gibbs Granger & Banfill, working a cloth factory at Exwick in the outskirts of Exeter. His father financed him and was also in the Exwick partnership. He was a member 1778 - 1789 of the Incorporation of Tuckers Hall, Exeter; head warden 1782, master 1783.

Bankrupt in 1789 (alike with his father), he went to Madrid and for the next 18 years was engaged in business which centred in Spain. Mainly working as agent for British manufacturers he was at times (from 1783) also exporting Spanish produce as partner in a firm at Malaga styled Juan Pomar Gibbs y Compania. Driven out of Spain by war in 1797 he conducted his business from 1798 to 1801 in Lisbon, but in 1802 became regularly established in Cadiz as a merchant there, till war again forced him away. His last visit to Spain was in 1807.

In 1808 he became one of the Commissioners in London for dealing with Portuguese property sent to England in the war, and in September that year founded, in partnership with his son George Henry, the firm of Antony Gibbs & Son, London, with a branch in Cadiz. The firm became Antony Gibbs & Sons in 1813 on admission of his second son William to the partnership.

He was author of a pamphlet signed "A Merchant," An Appeal to Common Sense on the Bullion Question, published 1810.

After his marriage he and his wife lived in Exeter 1784-6, at Exwick House 1786-9, in Madrid 1789-92. From 1792 to 1808 their home was in Exeter or its neighbourhood (at Cowley 1803-8), but in that period he made ten trips to the Peninsula of an average duration of 12 months each. The family moved to London in 1808 and lived in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1808-9; Denmark Hill, Camberwell, 1809-10; Dulwich Common, 1810-12; 2 Powis Place in the parish of St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, 1812 onwards.



For a brief summary of the firm Antony Gibbs and Sons see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons

Antony married Dorothea Barnetta Hucks on 3 Oct 1784 in Littleham, Devon. Dorothea (daughter of William Hucks and Eleanor Barnett) was born in Dec 1760 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire; died on 24 Feb 1820 in Redland, Gloucestershire; was buried on 10 Mar 1820 in St Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Kent. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
St Thomas's

Anne married Samuel Banfill, (of Exwick House) on 19 Apr 1784 in Exeter, Devon. Samuel was born in 1762; died in 1843 in Exeter, Devon; was buried on 6 Apr 1843 in St Thomas, Exeter, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For a note of portraits see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs, p. 441 and Additions to it of 1922.

Mary married Rev. Charles Crawley on 12 Apr 1784 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon. Charles (son of Thomas Crawley and Susanna Lloyd) was born on 25 Apr 1756 in Flaxley, Gloucestershire; died on 4 Jan 1849 in Stowe Nine Churches, Northamptonshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Exeter, Devon; Mint Chapel

Catherine married Bellett Burroughs in 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Plymouth, Devon

Notes:

Dr. Robert B. Remmett is frequently mentioned in the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs and practised as a doctor in Plymouth. He was founder (1794) and President of the Plymouth Medical Society and Physician Extraordinaire to the Plymouth Public Dispensary. Author of two books for which see Allibone's 'Dictionary of English Literature' (1894). He is not known to have had issue by his second wife. His children by Elizabeth (Gibbs) were: George, the eldest son, living 1792, who was drowned whilst at school at Eton College; John who died whilst at school at Eton College; and Robert, who was born at Plymouth 30 August 1778, died September 1825, married 8 July 1814 Elizabeth Tozer. She, who was born 5 November 1786 and died 10 January 1864, was of the same family as Bishop Tozer. Her husband was at one time Solicitor to the Customs in London. See the book 'Antony & Dorothea by J.A. Gibbs' for some details of his life. His grandson, Robert Remmett, born 1850, murdered in Mexico, 1901, unmarried, was the last male of the family, which is now represented by descendants of that Robert's sisters, viz., of Fanny Henrietta (of Teignmouth, 1915) who married John Collins Baker (died 1901) one of whose sons, Charles Henry Collins Baker, was for many years up to 1932 keeper and secretary of the National Gallery, London, - Ada Mary Massey who married the late Major Henry G. C. Burmingham, of Froye House, Hampshire, and Lena Elizabeth who married Edward Gallop, of Sydney, New South Wales.

For references to pedigrees of the Remmett family, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J. A. Gibbs, p. 375, n; and for note of portraits of Dr. Remmett, see the book 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs by J. A. Gibbs, p. 434.

Robert married Elizabeth Gibbs on 26 Mar 1776 in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon . Elizabeth (daughter of George Abraham Gibbs, of Pytte and Anne Vicary, of Dunkeswell) was born on 18 Apr 1750 in Exeter, Devon; died in 1780 in Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Nov 1752, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Baptised at Topsham 30 November 1752. Died childless at Ilfracombe on the 19 (or 20) April 1840. Will dated 2 November 1839, proved 17 June 1840 in the Archdeaconry Court of Barnstaple.

Elizabeth married James Richards, of Abbot's Leigh about 1793. James died in Aug 1829. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Officer in the Navy
• Baptism: 19 Jun 1757, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Officer in the Navy, baptised at Topsham 19 June 1757. Died 1830 and buried there.

His home after marriage was in Shapter Street., Topsham, but a different house to his father's. He and his brother John and their father are described as 'mariners' in a deed of 1788 ('Aldenham Genealogical Collections, p. 165) and he and his brothers John and Thomas in the deed of 1789 referred to below under Lieutenant George Gibbs. He certainly was a trading ship-captain, but the evidence is missing on which (following the old editions) he is described in the chart as an officer in the navy. His death in 1830 ended the family connection of five generations with Topsham.

Family/Spouse: Susanna Ley. Susanna (daughter of Thomas Ley, Rev) was born in 1766; died on 3 May 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Sep 1758, Topsham, Devon

Notes:

Abraham Gibbs, Esq., of Palermo, merchant. Died 15 July 1816 at Palermo and buried there.

In business in Italy and Sicily from 1775 till he died; at Leghorn at least till 1788; later at Palermo where he traded under the style of Gibbs & Co., with a branch at Naples. He was Banker to the Court of the Two Sicilies at Naples, Consul at Palermo for the U.S. of America, Paymaster to the British Forces in the Mediterranean. A friend of Admiral Lord Nelson and agent for the management of his estates at Bronte, Sicily, and after his death to his brother and successor, Earl Nelson, D.D. A letter from Lord Nelson to Abraham which is preserved in the Aldenham collection of Family letters, is printed in 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs and there are more letters from Nelson to him in published collections of Nelson's letters and many references to him in letters from Nelson to others (see Additions of 1927 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs). Abraham died by suicide in his house in Palermo, and his firm, which had hitherto prospered well, was liquidated by his nephew and partner, William H. Gibbs, Portrait, see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs.

Abraham married Mary Elizabeth Douglas in Aug 1790 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Mary (daughter of Sir James Douglas, of Faringdon and Isobel Douglas) was born on 10 Sep 1753 in England; died on 4 Mar 1797 in Naples, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]