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Darwin Correspondence Project

Joseph Gilbert

1812–71

Farmer. Took over before 1851 from his mother, Jane Gilbert (1780/1–1862), the tenancy of Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/627/14/2/19), 1851 (HO107/2111/45/22), 1861 (RG9/2379/42/23), 1871 (RG10/3398/39/22)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 June 2019)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 20 June 2019)

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

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