Gisborne, John

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5.6.1795 Gisborne adv at Foulkes' & 4.7.1797 dine at Maria Reveley's with Mary Wollstonecraft, tea Mrs Gisborne's with them and Ann Cristall & 15.8.1798 Gisbornes adv at Reveley's & 3.12.1799 meet Gisborne & Maria Reveley

The first entry may not be John Gisborne  e.g. Thomas G MD Clifford St London 1785, 1790, doctor to George III, died 1806

From 1796 the Reveleys' next-door neighbour in Lisson Street was Esther Gisborne, mother of Mrs Reveley's future husband; she set up a school there with the help of her daughters, three of whom later married men of some renown (Muzio Clementi, Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding and John Varley). Godwin and Wollstonecraft (by then Mrs Godwin) took tea there after dining at Mrs Reveley's on 4th July 1797 and some Gisbornes turned up again when Godwin dined at Reveley's on 15th August 1798. Godwin bumped into John Gisborne and Mrs Reveley together on 3rd December 1799, five months before their marriage and five months after her husband's death. The Gisbornes went to live in Italy where they later met Godwin's daughter Mary Shelley. (see my Blog/Article "William Godwin, the Reveleys and the Jenningses" from which this paragraph is mostly pasted,  & note [16] 

Winchelsea House, Lisson St ladies boarding school, Mrs G widow of wine merchant of Cannon St

PCC 1786 Zachariah G of Upper Clapton wine merchant, father in law John Rogers, wife Esther, sister Sarah wife of Roger hall of Walsall butcher dated 12.8.1786. He married Esther Rogers at St Benet Pauls Wharf 27.9.1772. John was their eldest child born 6.9.1773 bapt St Mary at Hill 30.9.1773; then Sarah born 12.12.1774 bapt there 5.1.1775; Anna Maria born 25.2.1776 bapt St Martin Ongar & St Clement Eastcheap 17.3.1776 (bur 23.1.1820 St Mary Whitechapel age 43); Zachariah born 10.7.1777 bapt 6.8.1777 there; Esther born 21.12.1779 and bapt 19.1.1780 St Mary Abchurch (=John Varley); Thomas bapt Hackney St John 22.12.1781; Susannah bapt there 9.7.1783 (= AVCFielding); Emma bapt there 29.1.1785 (=Muzio Clementi). Lived at the Grove, Highgate. John G will PCC 1836 Plymouth, Maria G dau of John James decd, Elizabeth Rumble servant, exec Wm Curtis bookseller Wimpole St. Maria G nee James died 27.4.1836 Windsor Pl, Plymouth. Esther G will PCC 1841 Brighton