Gibbs Leeds III may have owned 22-26 Princes Street late 18th early 19th c
1695 Gibbs Leeds I baptized at St George Tombland. Son of William Leeds (1651-1733) and Priscilla Faucett (1650-), who had moved to Norwich from Little Fransham, to the west of Norwich.
1714 – William Leeds or his son William appeared in the St Martin at Palace poll book as a worsted weaver.
1723 Gibbs Leeds I marries Mary Bloiss at St John Maddermarket. He is from St George Tombland.
1726 Charles, son of Gibbs Leeds I and Mary born, baptized at St George Tombland
1733 Gibbs Leeds II, son of Gibbs Leeds I and Mary born, baptized at St George Tombland
1755 Gibbs Leeds, son of Charles Leeds and Frances, born and baptized at St George Tombland.
1760 Gibbs Leeds II marries Esther Thompson at St Gregory’s, three months later their son Gibbs Leeds III born and baptized at St Gregory’s.
1761 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds I, St George Tombland, worsted weaver
- Gibbs Leeds II, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, worsted weaver
1768 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker, freeman
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Gibbs Leeds jun, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1773 Gibbs Leeds II dies, aged 82. Buried at St George Tombland.
1780 Poll Book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1782 Gibbs Leeds III marries Mary Nicholson at St Mary in the Marsh, in the Cathedral Close.
1783 Gibbs Leeds IV, son of Gibbs Leeds III and Mary born in St Edmund
1783 Chase’s directory – Gibbs Leeds II sieve maker at 23 Hungate Street
1784 Gibbs Leeds (son of Charles Leeds) marries Sarah Murrell, St Peter Hungate
1784 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St Peter Mancroft, coach maker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St Laurence, sieve maker
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Charles Leeds junior, St George Tombland, coachman
1786 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Charles Leeds junior, St George Tombland, coachman
- (all above three voted for Whig candidate)
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve-maker
1787 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Charles Leeds junior, St George Tombland, coachman (Gibbs Leeds and Charles Leeds voted Whig, Charles Leeds junior did not vote)
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve-maker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St Peter Hungate, coachman
1790 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Charles Leeds junior, St George Tombland, coachman
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve-maker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St Peter Hungate, coachman
1794 Gibbs Leeds, son of Charles Leeds I dies
1794 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sievemaker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Jonathan Leeds, St George Tombland, stone-mason
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve-maker
1796 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sievemaker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Jonathan Leeds, St George Tombland, stone-mason
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve-maker
1797 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds senior/II, St Michael Coslany
- Gibbs Leeds junior/III, St George Tombland, sieve maker.
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Jonathan, Gibbs Leeds II’s son, in St George Tombland working as a stone mason.
1799 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Charles Leeds, St George Tombland, coachman
- Jonathan Leeds, St George Tombland, stonemason
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve maker
1801 Jonathan Leeds dies aged 35
1802 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Gibbs Leeds, St Michael at Coslany, sieve maker
1804 Gibbs Leeds II dies, aged 70
1806 Poll Book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1807 Gibbs Leeds IV marries Susannah Ladell (1785-1837) daughter of Arthur Ladell, licensee of the Plumbers Arms in 1798-1808, at St George Tombland Church.
1807 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1812 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1815 Gibbs Leeds V son of Gibbs Leeds IV and Susannah is born, baptized at St George Tombland
1817 A release and covenant dating from 2nd January 1817 records that Gibbs Leeds (presumably III) paid £250[1] to the Harvey brothers (Robert, John and Charles Harvey[2]) to buy the messuage or dwelling house and shop in St George Tombland in the occupation of Leeds, bounded by premises of Hewett Rand (north – Samson and Hercules court), premises of John Sayer Reeve, Rizen Mollett and Elizabeth Aylmer (east), Kings Highway (south) and a messuage called Princes Inn (west). This could imply the property was what is now No.26 and possibly 22-24 as well, and that John Sayer Reeve was in 1 Tombland Alley, Rizen Mollett was in the old Augustine Steward House, and Elizabeth Aylmer was in 2 Tombland Alley. Rizen Mollett was a range and stove manufacturer and ironmonger and his premises at this point were on Tombland itself – probably the front part of the Augustine Steward house. John Sayer Reeve was a baker with a shop in Coslany.
1818 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, sieve maker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St George Tombland, sieve maker
1822 Peck’s Directory – Gibbs Leeds wire worker and sieve maker, Princes Street
1824 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, wire worker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St George Tombland, wire worker
1824 Property (2 Tombland Alley?) purchased by Susanna Bean, bounded by Gibbs Leeds to the West, grounds and houses of Mollett and public passage of St George Tombland to the east.
1830 Peck’s Directory – Gibbs Leeds wire worker and sieve maker, Princes Street
1830 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds, St George Tombland, wire worker
- Gibbs Leeds junior, St George Tombland, wire worker
1832 Gibbs Leeds III wife Mary dies, aged 76
1832 poll book
- Gibbs Leeds senior, Princes Street, St George Tombland
- Gibbs Leeds junior, Princes Street, St George Tombland
1833 April 22nd – Gibbs Leeds IV dies aged 49 “Leaving a disconsolate widow and four children to lament the loss of a kind husband and an affectionate father” buried St Saviours 28th April although resident St George Tombland.
1833 8th May – Gibbs Leeds III dies aged 72, buried St George Tombland
1835 Gibbs Leeds V marries Mary Waldon in Stepney, London. Is a police officer
1837 Susannah Leeds, nee Ladell, wife of Gibbs Leeds IV, dies, in London.
1837 property of Gibbs Leeds III put up for auction
“late the property of Gibbs Leeds, deceased, and now in the occupation of Mr Mounsear, upholsterer; comprising a sash fronted Shop, keeping-room, several bed-rooms, two large and commodious work-rooms, with coalhouse, wash-house and part of the yard as staked out adjoining.
The Property has a frontage of 18 feet 6 inches towards Princess-street, and 23 feet backward and extends from North to South including the yard a distance of 65 feet.
The Purchaser is to have the right of using the privy and bin standing and being in the said yard, paying a proportionate part of the expense of keeping the same in repair, and of emptying the said bin. And also a right of way from Princess street aforesaid, along and through passage leading therefrom into the said yard.”[1]
[1] Norfolk Chronicle, 29 April 1837 p 1
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