Gaubert London Lives 1774

Taken largely from the following websites - www.londonlives.org, ancestry.co.uk, findmypast.co.uk, familysearch.org

The following tables are from the London Lives project. Some, such as fire insurance, are already included in other pages on this site. The workhouse records paint a very sad picture of the fortunes of Peter & Ann Gaubert, among our earliest-proven ancestors. Initially I wondered why they had fallen so far when a family 'lifeboat' of contemporary close relatives was around them.

FIRE INSURANCE REGISTERS: Fire Insurance Policy Register 1777 -1786

year	company	policy no.	insured value in £s	person	status	address
1780	Sun	431215	300	William Gaubert	gentleman	12, South Moulton Street

FIRE INSURANCE REGISTERS:

Fire Insurance Policy Register, 1777-1786 1783 Source: UK Data Archive LL ref: fire_1780_1785_413_103239

register date/ company/ reference,	policy number	insured value in £s	forename	surname	occupation/status	address (i.e. street number)	address type	street name
1783 SUN 1 313 18\09\78 JT	478919	500	William	Gaubert	gent	no.12	street, road or alley	South Moulton Street

THE WORKHOUSE from http://www.londonlives.org

Tower Hamlets (from ancestry.com)

Agnes Gaubert, born 1862 and a dressmaker, was admitted on the 9th Aug 1916 to Bromley House (from Bromley House, Tower Hamlets (from the Admission and Discharge Register 1916)
Agnes Gaubert was discharged on 5th Nov. 1918 (from Bromley House, Tower Hamlets (from the Admission and Discharge Register 1918-1919)
Agnes Gaubert was discharged on 20th Nov. 1918 (from Bromley House, Tower Hamlets (from the Admission and Discharge Register 1918-1919)
Agnes Gaubert was discharged on 29th Nov. 1918 (from Bromley House, Tower Hamlets (from the Admission and Discharge Register 1918-1919)
Elizabeth Gaubert, born about 1814, of No. 2, Elizabeth Place, aged 70 years, widow of Henry, she was a tailor and was admitted from 28th August 1884 and discharged on the 3rd. Sept 1884. (from Stepney Workhouse register)

Westminster Archives

Settlement Examinations form the most common surviving type of examination. The idea of a settlement was enshrined in law with the passage of An Act for the better Relief of the Poor in 1662, widely referred as the Act of Settlement.1 This Act was principally concerned with restricting migration and providing the basis for the exclusion of outsiders from parishes. Those immigrants thought "likely to be chargeable" to a parish could be removed under the Act’s auspices by order, if a complaint was brought against them within forty days of their arrival, always providing that they had not rented a house or land worth £10 per year or more, or provided a certificate attesting to their intention to undertake harvest work, or their normal residence elsewhere.

St. Martin's Settlement Examinations

Findmypast has burial record of Edward Gobert, adult male, of Litchfield Street on the 29th Oct 1747 at St. Anne Soho. Also of Samuel Gobert buried 30th Jan 1692 at St. James, Piccadilly

St. Martin's Workhouse Registers: Workhouse Admissions and Discharge Registers 17th June 1780 - 19th January 1781 St. Martin's Pauper Biographies Project LL smdswhr _ 562 _ 56232

surname	forename	sex	date of admission	reason For Entry	age on admission	workhouse number	ward	number of times admitted	date of discharge	age on discharge	reason for discharge
GAUBERT, pauper	Sarah	fem	17/6/1780	unknown	57.00	0	24	1	19/1/1781	0.00	Disd

St. Martin's Workhouse Registers:

Workhouse Admissions and Discharge Registers 3rd July 1811 - 10th July 1811 Source: St. Martin's

surname	forename	sex	date of admission	reason for entry	with whom	age on admission	ward	number of times admitted	date of discharge	age on discharge	reason for discharge
Gaubert, pauper	Peter	male	3/7/1811	unknown	wife	64.00	28	1	10/7/1811	0.00	removed to the parish of Lambeth

St. Martin's Workhouse Registers: Workhouse Admissions and Discharge Registers 3rd July 1811 - 10th July 1811 Source: St. Martin's Pauper Biographies

surname	forename	sex	date of admission	reason for entry	with whom	age on admission	ward	number of times admitted	date of discharge	age on discharge	reason for discharge
Gaubert, pauper	Ann	fem.	3/7/1811	unknown	husband	64.00	2	1	10/7/1811	0.00	removed to the parish of Lambeth with husband

Searches for "GOBERT"

St. Martin's Workhouse Registers: Workhouse Admissions and Discharge Registers 24th November 1728 - 25th November 1728 Source: St. Martin's Pauper Biographies Project LL ref: smdswhr_41_4177

surname

forename

sex

date of admission

reason for entry

age on admission

workhouse number

ward

number of times admitted

date of discharge

age on discharge

reason for discharge

title of person discharged to

surname of person discharged to

forename of person discharged to

Gobert, pauper

Sarah

fem.

24.11. 1867

unknown

61.00

1867

25.11. 1728

0.00

sent to Doctor Wright's ye next day

Doctor.

Wright (discharged to)

unknown

St. Martin's Workhouse Registers: Workhouse Admissions and Discharge Registers

21st April 1729 - 25th April 1729 Source: St. Martin's Pauper Biographies Project LL ref: smdswhr_42_4206

surname	forename	sex	date of admission	reason for entry	age on admission	workhouse number	ward	number of times admitted	date of discharge	age on discharge	reason for discharge
Gobert, pauper	Sarah	fem.	21.04. 1729	unknown	61.00	0	0	2	25.4. 1729	0.00	discharged

In 1780-1781, a Sarah Gaubert (but spelt as 'Gobert'), described as a pauper aged 57 yrs, was taken into nearby St. Martins Workhouse. For more about her see http://www.gaubertgenealogy.freeola.org/MarriagesDavidSarah.html.

GOBART

workhouse	forename	surname	admitted	discharged
St.Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Sarah Gobart aged 40 years in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith that she is the wife of David Gobart (gone from her) to whom she was married at the fleet about 17 years ago, that she this examinant hath been informed by her said husband that he was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to Mr Smith a Silk Dyer in that part of Little St Martin's Lane which is in the said Parish of St Martin in the Fields and there served all the said term of seven years, that her said husband never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since the expiration of his said apprenticeship to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this examinant hath one child by her said husband to wit Sarah aged two months now with this Examinant. Taken in the workhouse the first Day of October 1768. With child.	22nd March 1769
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	daughter of Sarah above. Taken by her mother into the workhouse on 1st Oct 1768 aged 17 weeks but died there on 13th March 1769. Westminster Archives Burials shows she was buried on the 14th Mar 1769	13.03.1769
St. Martins	Edmund	Gobart	18th Oct 1758 aged 6 1/2yrs	2nd June 1762, left the house
St. Martins	Edward	Gobart	2nd June 1762 aged 18yrs, admitted twice previously	8th Dec 1762, sent for by an uncle in Ireland
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted on 29th June 1786 aged 65 yrs. having been admitted 3 times.	discharged 5th July 1786.
St Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted to the laundry ward on 20th Dec 1786 aged 65 yrs having been admitted 5 times.	died in the workhouse on 28th Nov 1793
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 29.10.1788 aged 63 yrs	06.07. 1789
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 16.07.1789 aged 63 yrs	26.09.1791
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 28.12.1791 aged 65 yrs	06.08.1792
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 21.09.1792 aged 65 yrs	01.06.1793
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 08.06.1793 aged 65 yrs	08.07.1793
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 08.06.1793	08.07.1793
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 05.08.1793	29.04.1795
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 05.08.1793 aged 65 yrs having been admitted 6 times (admitted and discharged in company with Sarah)	'to No.7' and 29.04.1795
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 01.07.1795 along with Sarah.	06.04.1796 with Sarah
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 01.07.1795	06.04.1796
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 06.05.1795 aged 70 yrs along with Sarah.	07.06.1796 with Sarah
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	06.05.1796	07.06.1796 aged 70
St. Martins	David	Gobart	Pauper. Admitted 17.06.1796 aged 70 yrs along with Sarah.	05.09.1796 with Sarah
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	17.06.1796	05.09.1796
St. Martins	Sarah	Gobart	14.09.1796 aged 70	died 27.02.1800
St. Martins	David	Gobart	14.09.1796 aged 70 with Sarah	also died 27.02.1800
'Findmypast' shows a record for David Gaubert being buried 4th March 1800 in the parish of St. Martins in The Fields

Sarah admitted again on 29.6.1786 aged 65yrs discharged 5.7.86. Admitted yet again 20.12.1786 aged 65yrs. Died 28.11.1793.

Searches for "GOUBERT"

Middlesex Sessions: Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents SM | PS
April 1714 Currently Held: LM LL ref: LMSMPS501380105 Image 105 of 110 Anne Goubert is acquitted of the trespass and fraud whereof She was indicted & is to be delivered out of her Majies Goale of Newgate if detained for use other cause paying her Fees 17s.6d.

Peter & Ann GAUBERT- http://www.londonlives.org
Ann Gaubert, pauper admitted to St. Martins Workhouse 3.7.1811 aged 64 with her husband Peter Gaubert also a pauper. Removed with husband on 10.7.1811 to the parish of Lambeth.

Peter and Ann had 15 children amongst whom were Stephen, born in 1769 and who died in 1834, and Edward, born in 1785 and died in 1832.

A Stephen Gaubert is recorded as having a house in Litchfield Street in 1774 and again in 1780. He might have been the Stephen, son of Peter. But he died shortly afterwards, when in 1782, his will proven.

Within a few years, in 1791, Peter's cousin Edward dies as 'a widower of Dublin' and his will is proven. Edward's estate, although originally intended for his mother, passes to his father David. David deserted his wife Sarah, she being the poor woman sent to St. Martins Workhouse back in 1780. In 1796 another Stephen Gaubert, but also of Litchfield Street and therefore presumably Peter's grandson, votes for John Home Tooke in the Westminster election.

So at the turn of the century, Peter has lost his father and his Aunt Sarah had been put into the Workhouse 20 years earlier. Her husband Uncle David had already deserted her many years earlier. But Peter, having also lost his cousin Edward, does have the two sons, Stephen and Edward.

Early in the new century, in 1802 and 1806, that same first-mentioned Stephen is shown as still living in Litchfield Street. On the 3rd July 1811 Peter and his wife Ann, both aged 64, are put into St. Martins Workhouse for a week and then transferred to Lambeth Workhouse. Ann dies 7 months.

Westminster Archives confirmed to me that this destination wasn't a matter of choice. The Act of Settlement proscribed where paupers and vagrants should be taken - normally to their last permanent parish. Initially this transfer was a surprise, given Peter's childhood connection with Westminster but old addresses webpage shows the direct connection -

1783 Edward GAUBERT of Castle Street, son of Peter GAUBERT of Union Street, Lambeth, Surrey, who was apprenticed in 1783 to John Jefferson of Fetter Lane. Jefferson appears in the London Poll Book of 1768 as an armourer & brazier, of Holborn

1801 - Richard Gaubert is recorded in the census as an inmate of St. James Workhouse.

1806 Edward GAUBERT of Castle Street, son of Peter GAUBERT of Union Street, Lambeth, Surrey, who was apprenticed in 1783 to john Jefferson of Fetter Lane.

1806 Became free of the Goldsmiths Company in November 1806. Edward GAUBERT of Castle Street, son of Peter GAUBERT of Union Street, Lambeth, Surrey, who was apprenticed in 1783 to John Jefferson of Fetter Lane. Edward later moved to 6, Serles Place.

1816 26.11. Peter GAUBERT, died aged 71 yrs of Serles Place.

Stephen Gaubert is shown a few years later in 1818 and 1819 as still being

So , there were some surprises. Edward leaves almost all of his estate to his mother Sarah and nothing to his father David who survives him and inherits the lot. Peter and Ann clearly moved for some reason from Lambeth to Westminster for a few years but desperately struggled and were returned to Lambeth. Eventually Peter was to make it back across the Thames, eventually to live with his son Edward at Serles Place, Holborn, a turning north of Fleet Street. It's comforting to see Peter finding eventual safety in his son's house.

Both sons (they each survived him) seemed to have failed to give their parents a safety net when they so desperately needed one. The Workhouse was normally the last step before the grave yet both sons were working tradesmen.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields Settlement Examinations index (1750-1775)

ID	surname	first name	age	date	volume	page
14	GOBART	David	to be added	1768	F5057	p168

15	GOBART	Sarah	40	1768	F5057	p168

16	GOBART	Sarah	2m	1768	F5057	p168

St. Martin in The Fields Settlement Examinations index (1732-1750)

20	GOBART	Mary	56	1741	F5034		151
21	GOBART	Tobias	-	(1741)	F5034		151
22	GOBART	Tobias		-	1741	F5034	151

St. Martin in the Fields Pauper Examinations, 1725-1793

Sarah Gobart aged 40 years at the time of examination 01.10.1768 and she aged 40yrs in the workhouse of and in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields upon her oath saith that she is the wife of David Gobart (gone from her) to whom she was married at the Fleet about 17 years ago, that she this examinant hath been informed by her said husband that he was bound an apprentice by an indenture for seven years to Mr Smith a Silk Dyer in that part of Little St. Martin's Lane which is in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields and there served all the said term of seven years, that her said husband never kept house rented a tenement of 10 pounds by the year paid any parish taxes nor was a yearly hired servant in any one place for 12 months together since the expiration of his said apprenticeship to this Examinant's knowledge, that she this examinant hath one child by her said husband to wit Sarah aged two months now with this Examinant.

Taken in the workhouse the first Day of October 1768. Discharged 22nd March 1769. Not previously admitted. Child died.

Findmypast records a Sarah Gobart, child, buried 14th Mar 1769 at St. Martins in The Fields.


St. Martins Workhouse	Lambeth Workhouse, possibly a later building

Women in Lambeth Workhouse	Plan of Lambeth Workhouse in the 1790s
	St. Martins Workhouse doorway

WESTMINSTER POLL BOOKS: Votes in Westminster Elections, 1749-1820 1st January 1819 - 31st December 1819 Source: UK Data Archive LL

surname	forename	parish	occupation	street	period
Gaubert	Stephen	St. James, Piccadilly	jeweller	Brewer Street	01.01.1819 - 12.31.1819

map of Brewer Street in 1799

INCOME TAX PAYMENTS 1799-1802

Individual Tax Payments, Income more than 60 Pounds 1st January 1799 - 31st December 1800 Source: UK Data Archive LL

surname	forename	title	address	county	year	amount paid £ s d.
Gaubert	N	Esq	Chiswick	Middlesex and Westminster	1799/1800	4 3 4