GIBSON FAMILY

1. For the life of Sir Bartholomew Shower see the Dictionary of National Biography.

2. For a history and pedigree of the Clitherowe fanmily see Boston Manor and the Clitheroe Family by A. J. Howard.

3. See the Hawtrey-Deane collection, ACCession 249, and also The History of the Hawtrey Family by F. M. Hawtrey.

1-10 Pinner Wood, Shower family property, 1550-1717.

11-21 Northolt, Islips Manor Farm, Shower family property, 1685-1755.

22-23 Pinner, Barrowpoint or Berry Pond Hill, 1734

24-25 Pinner Street, cottage, 1691.

26-48 Pinner, Brickwall House, 1664-1762.

49-105 Pinner, Page family properties, 1664-1723.

106-111 Pinner, Edlin family properties, 1692-1724.

112-113 Hendon, Bunns Farm, 1733-1739.

114 Heston, Upper Grove Meadow, 1750.

116-117 St. James Westminster, Rupert St., 1736-1743.

118 St. Paul Covent Garden, Bow St., 1683.

119-121 Kent, Darenth, 1636-1653.

122 Kent, West Malling, 1701.

123-136 Shower and Gibson family wills and settlements, 1701-1797.

137-140 Stanton family wills and settlements, 1713-1739.

141-143 Articles of partnership, 1706-1758.

144-148 ACCounts, 1710-1747.

149-153 Papers of Richard Stanton, 1718-1748.

154-178 Papers of the Revd. John Gibson, 1740-1762.

179-181 Miscellaneous items, 1677-1744.

<p>The Gibson family records are a valuable addition to the group of collections in the Record Office concerning the Pinner area. In particular, there are deeds of the property at Bury Pond Hill inherited by John Gibson in 1718 among the Allen-Cooper family records (ACC/351). Papers concerning Pinner Wood, 1644-1648, are in the Northwick collection (ACC/76/409-411)</p>

John Gibson senior was until about 1720 a jeweller in Bow Street. In 1718 he inherited property at Bury Pond Hill in Pinner from an aunt, Elizabeth Darden (ACC/351/1032), and in 1720 his wife inherited Islips Manor Farm in Northolt, and property at Pinner Hill. She was Dorcas, only daughter and heiress of William Shower, and, through him, of her uncle, Sir Bartholemew Shower, recorder of London, who died in 1701 (ACC/1045/123-128). These properties had been purchased by Sir Bartholomew in 1695 and 1698 from the Clitherowe and Hawtrey families respectively. John Gibson settled at Pinner, where he bought further properties, notably from Randall Page junior in 1721 (ACC/1045/103), and remained there till his death in 1745.

After her husband's death Dorcas Gibson returned to London, settling in Stepney, and her younger sons, William and Bartholomew, became a haberdasher and grocer respectively in the City (ACC/1045/129-134). The eldest son and heir, John, was educated at Balliol and entered the church, becoming Vicar of Heston in 1750 and Bedfont in 1761. There is a complete set of official documents concerning his clerical career from letters of orders on his ordination as Deacon in 1740 to the certificate of his reading in as Vicar of Bedfont in 1761 (ACC/1045/154-176). He died in 1777.

The Gibson family were closely connected with the Stanton Family of Limehouse. Seth Gibson and Thomas Stanton became partners in the wholesale silk trade in 1706 (ACC/1045/141) and the association survived the removal of John Gibson to Pinner. The collection includes a group of personal and business papers of Richard Stanton and his brother Thomas Stanton junior who died in 1714. Besides articles of partnership, there are household and general ACCounts, 1706-1764 (ACC/1045/144-147), including rent ACCounts for properties in Rupert Street.