Author: Calcott, Jane Berkeley
Biography:
CALCOTT, Jane Berkeley later GASKIN (1823-1903: ancestry.co.uk)
She was the eldest daughter of George Berkeley Calcott, of the 36th Foot Regiment, and his wife Jane Beattie, daughter of a physician, and was born at Dublin probably in 1823. Her father’s surname at birth was Berkeley but he added Calcott when he inherited from his aunt Jane Berkeley Calcott of Caynham Court, Shropshire. It is not known when the family moved from Ireland but likely it was after 1834, the year Calcott’s book was published. By the time of her marriage to the Rev. John Gaskin on 14 Mar. 1848, she was living at Clifton, Bedfordshire. John Gaskin had been twice widowed and had several children. He and Jane had a daughter (Jane) and a son (James; died in childhood). Gaskin became the rector of St. Cuthbert’s, Bedford, and died on 25 Apr. 1852. Later in life she moved to Dorchester to live with her widowed mother (d 1869) and she died there on 3 Feb. 1903. No other published works by her have been identified. (ancestry.co.uk 29 Mar. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 29 Mar. 2021; B. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland [1868]) SR
Other Names:
- Miss Berkeley Calcott