Er hat eine Beziehung mit MARGARET.
Kind(er):
This account now moves far enough beyond the start of Hawkhurst parish register in 1550 that the only certain date for William Gibbon the elder, is that of his burial on 24th February 1582. However, he must have been born before 1511 as he is named in his own father’s will. He appears in the Churchwardens’ Accounts, where he and his fellow churchwarden wrote up the accounts for three
years as one entry:
Account rendered by John Andrew and William Gybbon churchwardens and ?keepers of the church goods of Hawkhurst there by the space of three years that is to say from the feast of Pentecost which was in the year of our Lord 1551 unto the same feast in the year of our Lord 1554 of all the remainder that apptayned to the church aforesaid which was xlixli xixs xd.
The following pages from 1548 include further references:
Item paid to Willam Gybbon for my C lathe xxd
Item paid to William Gybon for St. Nicholas Chappell viiis iiiid
Item paid to William Gybon ?ffonys xd
Item paid to William Gybon the olde organ frame iis
There is no explanation as to what a C lathe might be.
Everything else known about William Gibbon comes from his will written on 1st February 1582. Given that he was buried on 24th February, he must have been very close to death at the time. Nevertheless it is a detailed document, starting with a request for burial in Hawkhurst churchyard and a gift to the poor of the parish of 12d. He then bequeathed a cow to his son Thomas and the residue of his moveable estate to his wife Margaret. She also received all his land and tenements in
Hawkhurst except: the land which I bought of Richard Atkin during her widowhood the wording of which suggests that maybe Margaret was a second wife who had been married before. There are conditions attached to this bequest, namely that Margaret pays William’s three daughters, listed as Joan Slowman, Mary Barowe and Martha Thorpe 8/4 a year until they have each received four marks. Margaret was also enjoined to keep his house in good repair.
He then dealt with his five sons: Robert, Thomas, John, William and Mathew. Robert was willed land bought from Thomas Posse provided he protect Margaret and his siblings from:
one obligation in which I stand to John Eastland of Cranbrook in xxl and pay his brother Thomas £8 out of his land inheritance. John, presumably his third son, was willed land in fee simple bought from Richard …., provided he fulfil a bond made by William to a man named Hales from Tenterden. William received the house his father lived in provided he pay his brother Mathew 24 in two instalments after Margaret’s death.
The witnesses to this will were Mathew Eryer, Robert Laicocke and Peter Aforde, whose names appear in place of the executrix Margaret on the probate which was granted in March 1583.
PRC17/44/122, Will of William Gibbon of Hawkhurst, 1583
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