Author: Gellibrand, Joseph
Biography:
GELLIBRAND, Joseph (d 1806: ancestry.co.uk)
Gellibrand’s family were non-conformists and no birth record has been located for him. His father was the Rev. Thomas Gellibrand (d 1782), minister of a chapel in Ashford, Kent, from 1729 to 1778. His mother was Grace (Clarke) Gellibrand (d 1794) and she was related to John Clarke, the subject of Joseph Gellibrand’s poem. (John Clarke, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Clarke of Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, died on 8 Nov. 1782.) Gellibrand became the minister of a non-conformist chapel in Edmonton, Middlesex, in about 1760 but he also served as the minister in Ashford for five years after his father’s death in 1778. On 17 May 1763 Gellibrand married Elizabeth Tice (d 1824) at Blandford Forum, Dorset; they had three children. Grace Gellibrand had inherited the manor of Poundhurst in Rucking, Kent, through the Clarke family and she bequeathed it to Joseph when she died. He remained the minister at Edmonton until his death on 29 Mar. 1806; he was buried in the churchyard at All Saints, Edmonton. (ancestry.co.uk 17 Sept. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 17 Sept. 2024; William H. Ireland, England’s Topographer [1829]; London Packet 20 Aug. 1824)