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Family and Education
bap. 5 Dec. 1613, 2nd s. of Freegift Gibbon (bur. 18 Nov. 1656) of Rolvenden and Katherine Morlen (bur. 3 June 1628).Rolvenden par. reg.; Canterbury Cathedral Archives, E. Kent marr. index. m. (1) 2 Oct. 1632, Anne Brewer of Hadlow, Kent, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 2da.;Hadlow par. reg.; Staplehurst par. reg. (2) c.1643, Anne (bur. 8 Apr. 1682), da. of Jonathan Tilden of Beckley, Suss. at least 1s. bur. 30 May 1681.Rolvenden par. reg.
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Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Sir Michael Livesay* by 1643; regt. of Henry Ireton*, Apr. 1645–7;BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. 116; SP28/130, unfol. maj. c.June 1647-c.June 1649.Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 84, 96, 109; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. 119, 519. Gov. Rye Aug. 1648-aft. Mar. 1650;CSP Dom. 1648–9, pp. 241–2; HMC Popham, 62. Jersey by 26 Nov. 1654-July 1659;CSP Dom. 1654, p. 577; 1659–60, p. 10. Deal Castle 15 June 1660–?Aug. 1660.Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. 519–21. Col. of ft. May 1650 – Oct. 1651, Sept. 1656–?c.Apr. 1659,CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 163–7; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. 325; CJ vii. 24; TSP v. 398. 15 July 1659–2 Aug. 1660.Clarke Pprs. iv. 24; Whitelocke, Diary, 612; Worc. Coll. Oxf. Clarke Ms LIII, unfol.; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 164.

Local: j.p. Kent 28 Feb. 1651 – bef.Oct. 1660; Suss. Mar. 1657–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 210, 363. Commr. assessment, Kent 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Canterbury 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). sewers, Ticehurst and River Rother, Kent and Suss. 3 Nov. 1653, 17 Apr. 1654, 4 Oct. 1660;C181/6, pp. 23, 31; C181/7, p. 61. Walland Marsh, Kent and Suss. 13 May 1657;C181/6, p. 226. I. of Sheppey, Kent 4 Aug. 1657, 5 Oct. 1659;C181/6, pp. 254, 396. Denge Marsh, Kent Oct. 1658, 10 Oct. 1660;C181/6, p. 321; C181/7, p. 63. ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Home circ. 3 Feb. 1657-June 1659.C181/6, pp. 219, 306. Gov. Sir John Hawkins’ Hosp. Chatham 7 Apr. 1659.Medway Archives, CH108/21, p. 206. Commr. militia, Kent 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O.; CJ vii. 777a.

Civic: freeman, Canterbury 4 July 1654, 28 Dec. 1658.Canterbury Cathedral Archives, A/C4, f. 370v; A/C5, f. 9; HMC 9th Rep. i. 165a.

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Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

GIBBON, Robert (1613-81), of Rolvenden, Kent.

Will
23 May 1681, pr. 4 July 1681.PROB11/367/118.
Estates
at death held property in Rolvenden and Newenden parishes, Kent, and also house in Duke’s Place, Aldersgate St, London.PROB11/367/118. During the 1650s held manors of East Farleigh, Dachurst, and Penshurst, Suss.A.W. Gibbons, Gibbons Fam. Notes (1896), 36.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
household chap. in 1650s was Joseph Cobb, a congregational preacher and later conventicler.Worc. Coll. Oxford, Clarke MS LIII, unfol.; Calamy Revised, 124.
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