William Meachin

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Bury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Younger daughter and husband of William Meachin by Elizabeth, daughter of .... Bury. Will dated 29 October 1778, proved 28 July 1779 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Doctors Commons, London.

For the Meachin family and pedigree see 'Aldenham Genealogical Collections', Vol. A, p. 439 and Vol. CI. p. 427. Her portrait was supposed to be in a picture bought by Lord Aldenham in 1912 (by Sir Godfrey Kneller) of three children, which was labelled 'Mary, Elizabeth, and William, children of William Meachin', but, as she is only known to have had sisters Catherine and Margaret, and no brother is recorded, the identity is doubtful. Her will was proved by George Abraham Gibbs and William Gibbs; power reserved to John her eldest son.

Elizabeth married Captain John Gibbs, of Topsham on 13 Jan 1751/52. John (son of Abraham Gibbs, of Topsham and Sarah Lyle) was born in 1725 in Topsham, Devon; died on 20 Jul 1774 in At Sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Nov 1752, Topsham, Devon

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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

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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]

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• Baptism: 10 Sep 1758, Topsham, Devon

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Bristol, Gloucestershire; St Augustine's
• Occupation: Merchant

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2nd son, sometime of Genoa, later of Manchester. Merchant. Born 15 June 1793, baptised at St. Augustine's Bristol, educated at Blundell's aforesaid 1804-8. Died at Manchester 8 November 1837, buried at Blackley there. Will dated 3 November 1837.

Clerk in Thomson Hankey & Co., merchants in the City of London, 1808-16. Joined the business of his uncle Lyle in Genoa, 1816, partner 1825-35. In business in Manchester 1836-7. Portrait see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs

John married Ellin Maria Gamble on 15 Nov 1828 in Finsbury, Middlesex. Ellin (daughter of John Richard Gamble and Elizabeth Devis) was born on 2 Nov 1807 in Paxton, Huntingdonshire; died on 27 Nov 1835 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; was buried on 29 Nov 1835 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Baptism: 20 Jul 1808, Topsham, Devon

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5th son, baptised at Topsham, educated at Blundell's aforesaid 1818-26, died 14 December 1857 at Genoa and buried there. Will proved there.

Joined Gibbs & Co., Genoa, the business of his uncle Lyle, about 1828, became a partner and remained in the firm till his death.

Charles married Stuarta Brown on 26 Apr 1852 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy. Stuarta (daughter of Timothy Yeats Brown and Stuarta Erskine) was born in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; died in Jul 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1851, Delph, Staffordshire; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1861, Amington, Warwickshire

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Only child. Died 21 January 1878, buried in Woking Cemetery.

Mary married Lieut-General Charles Edward Ashe a' Court Repington on 10 May 1815 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Charles (son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court, 1st baronet of Heytesbury and Letitia Wyndham) was born on 17 Jun 1785 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire; died on 19 Apr 1861 in Armington Hall, near Tamworth, Staffordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]