Record Source:Hollingbourne marriages 1554-1837
Record source:East Kent Marriages index 1538-1764
Data provider:Kent Family History Society

Robert James GAUBERT- the son of Stephen R GAUBERT & Nicolette BARRE

Stephen GAUBERT- b.04 Aug 1833, son of William Peter GAUBERT jeweller & Mary KEITH (2 partners); of Brewer Street; baptised 2nd Sept 1833 at Piccadilly St James, Westminster

Stephen died 16 Nov 1907 at Rosebury, Chaplin Road, Hendon and was buried on 21st Nov 1907 at Wembley aged 75 yrs

Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He was christened in 1769 at St Dunstan in the West, the son of Peter and Anne. His brother was Edward Gaubert (Grimwade p.359).
He was apprenticed to his father in 1783 and free in 1796. His father was in the Goldsmiths Company and a jeweller at George Court, Doctors Commons.
He had married Mary Colley at St Anne, Soho in 1795.
Their son William Peter was christened at that church in 1796.
He appears in the London Poll Book of 1796 as a goldsmith entitled to vote by reason of property at 4 Litchfield Street, Soho, paid for Land Tax redemption in 1798 and was assessed to Land Tax there until 1806 then on property in Gerrard Street, Soho in 1807.
John George, son of Charles Bertram, a wine merchant, was indentured as his apprentice in 1801.
His son Stephen, a child late of Litchfield Street, was buried at St Anne's in 1804.
As an aside to this biography, of the 135 burials recorded in the St Anne's parish in July-September 1804, 85 were of children, a disturbing statistic.
From 1811 his son William Peter and John James Edington (Grimwade p.365, 372) were his apprentices at Litchfield Street.
His wife Mary's burial record at St Anne's in 1828 showed Litchfield Street as her last address.
He was assessed to Land Tax on property in Brewer Street from 1812 to 1829.
Three of his children, John born 1797, Ann born 1799 and Richard born 1801 were all belatedly christened at St Anne's in 1821.
He entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1831 as a gold worker from 8 Carlisle Street, Soho and notified a change of address to 51 Berwick Street, Oxford Street in 1833, the only year he was assessed to Land Tax on the property.
No further Land Tax was charged on Stephen and no further information has been traced for him. He either retired or died.
Son William Peter appears in the Brewer Street records from 1835-36. He died in 1838.
Son John was listed as a working jeweller at 51 Brewer Street in 1839 and was assessed to Land Tax there from 1835 until he died in 1842. Mrs Gaubert or Gaubert & Co were assessed there from 1843 until at least 1851 at which point the website records end.
Son Richard, recorded as a jeweller, was in the St James workhouse in 1841.

Stephen GAUBERT- b.c.1717, m. to Joanna. Died 29 Jun 1764 in Wexford, Will 28 Mar 1738 and proved 29 June 1764.
Will mentions
his wife: Joanna,
brother:Peter
nephew: Stephen Andre Gaubert the son of Peter Gaubert,
sister: Susanna Gaubert married to a Labat
nie

ce:Jane Gaubert the daughter of Peter Gaubert

Information from Ancestry.com: ex "England and Wales, Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8)" - marriage 27th Dec 1739 at the Fleet, London; to Frances Prince; both of St James, London; ref: Affiliate Publication Number: RG7_165 and Affiliate Publication Number: RG7_716. The image on the right records that the marriage was conducted at Wheelers

In the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth centuries couples desiring to be secretly married came to the Fleet and King's Bench prisons, where degraded clergymen could easily be found among the herd of debtors to perform the ceremony.

The Fleet Chapel was used for debtors' marriages till 1686, when the incumbent of St. James's, Duke's Place, Aldgate, being suspended by the Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, made it too popular as a place for secret marriages; and the chapel becoming the haunt of dangerouslookers-on, the degraded clergymen of the prison and neighbourhood began to celebrate secret marriages in rooms of adjoining taverns, or in private houses adjacent to Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, and the Mint, keeping registers, to give an appearance of legality, and employing touts, to attract and bring in victims.

A few of the forty negotiators in wedlock were women, who had come into possession of a register and marrying business by inheritance. Most of them, however, had in the first instance been simple innkeepers, supplying the public with adulterated liquors before they entered the matrimonial trade.

"Standing in the chief thoroughfares or side-alleys and by-yards of the Fleet quarter, their taverns had signs, some of which still pertain to hostelries of the locality. For instance: 'The Cock,' near Fleet Bridge, and 'The Rainbow' Coffee House, at the corner of Fleet Ditch, were famous marryinghouses, with signs honourably known at the presentday to frequenters of Fleet Street taverns. The'Cock and Acorn,' the 'Fighting Cocks,' the'Shepherd and Goat,' the 'Golden Lion,' the'Bishop Blaze,' the 'Two Lawyers,' the 'Wheatsheaf,' the 'Horseshoe and Magpie,' the 'King'sHead,' the 'Lamb,' the 'Swan,' the 'Hoop and Bunch of Grapes,' were some of the taverns in or near Fleet Street and Fleet Market, provided with chaplains and chapels, or private rooms, in which marriages were solemnised on every day and night of the year.

1	William Frederick GAUBERT- (16 Jan 1822-1844)
2	John Stephen GAUBERT- (10 Nov 1823-1862)
3	Esther Mary Ann GAUBERT- (08 Sep 1825) m.5th Feb 1869 in St. Georges, Hanover Squ. to Septimus Baker of West Derby, Liverpool; both aged 21yrs.
4	Robert Joseph GAUBERT- (27 Sep 1827-09 Apr 1890) m.11 Aug 1855 in St.James he a hairdresser of 47, Warwick Rd; to Louise Salome BAYARD a perfumier
5	Henry Charles GAUBERT- (25 Jul 1827)
6	Charlotte Sophia GAUBERT- (27 Oct 1831) m.1876 in St. Georges, Hanover Squ.
7	Stephen GAUBERT- (04 Aug 1833-16 Nov 1907) 1. m.1855 in St. Giles to DARBY 2. m.16 Jan 1881 in St.Pancras, chemist, to Maria BURGESS
8	Richard GAUBERT-
9	Arthur Wilfred GAUBERT- (1838-15 Nov 1867) m.22 Jun 1864 in Marylebone dentist, to Fanny Harriet BEESTON
10	Edwin GAUBERT- (1838)

William d.02 Jun 1838 in 32, Brewer Street, St. James Westminster of consumption aged 42 yrs, jeweller, informant widow Mary