GAUBERT, Stephen (Grimwade p.378)

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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.

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The Will of Stephen Gaubert, working jeweller late of St James, Westminster, was proved for probate on 1st September 1834 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1836/107).