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 may have been born at Dublin in about 1823. (However her brother, William Berkeley Calcott, was born in Newcastle, Northumberland, in 1822.) Her father was born in Essex in about 1787 (d 1868); his surname at birth was Berkeley but he added Calcott when he inherited from his aunt Jane Berkeley Calcott of Caynham Court, Shropshire. Her mother was born in Ireland in about 1803. The 1841 Census shows the family--the parents, four sons, three daughters including Jane, and three servants--living at Clifton, Gloucestershire. There Jane married the Rev. John Gaskin on 14 Mar. 1848. 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. She was buried in the cemetery at Dorchester where there is still a memorial. No other published works by her have been identified and her one book of verse is a collection of poems by a precocious eleven-year old. Many of the poems are dated 1834. (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