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Gilbert, William
(b Colchester, Essex, England, 1544; d.
Biography of sir william gilbert
London, England, 30 November 1603)
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Gilbert was born into a rising, middle-class family that had only recently acquired its well-to-do status. His great-grandfather, John Gilbert, had married Joan Tricklove, the only daughter of a wealthy merchant from Clare, Suffolk.
Their son, William Gilbert of Clare, became a weaver and eventually sewer of the chamber to Henry VIII. This William married Margery Grey, and among their nine children was Jerome Gilbert. Jerome, who had some knowledge of law, moved from Clare to Colchester in the 1520’s became a free burgess and recorder there, and married Elizabeth coggeshall.
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The oldest of their five children was William Gilbert of Colchester. After Elizabeth’s death Jerome married Jane Wingfield, and after her death he married a third time. Little is known of this third marriage other than that the woman’s name was Margery.
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