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Gideon Saint, An Eighteenth-Century Carver and His Scrapbook, by Morton H. Heckscher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bulletin, February 1969, p. 301
Saint family genealogy -now at University College, London - wherein I found that Gideon was born on June 1 , 1729, son of "Jaques Saint, native of St Lo and of Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Bosquet, Sieur des Long Champs."
In I762 Gideon was thirty-three years old. He must have been doing well enough by that time to settle down, for the Saint family genealogy records his marriage to Marie Catherine Paisant on December 4. (They had five children, of whom only John an William survived childhood.)
Gideon Saint, An Eighteenth-Century Carver and His Scrapbook, by Morton H. Heckscher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bulletin, February 1969, p. 302
". . .the Gentlemen's Magazine for January 1791 reports the death of "Mrs. Saint, aged 52, of Hoxton," and the next year Gideon is listed as a director of the Ecole de Charite Frangaise de Westminster.
Gideon Saint made his will, which survives in the Principal Probate Registry at Somerset House, on the twenty-first of February, 1799. He was "late of Charles Square Hoxton, ... & Now of Groombridge, in ye County of Kent, Gentn. [Gentleman]." The elder son, John, lived at Groombridge, and he probably took his aging father to live with him for the last months of his life. Gideon died on April twenty-fourth and was buried next to his wife in the churchyard (since destroyed) of St. Anne, Soho. On the fourth of May the will was probated. d. Administration was granted to the two sons, and it was sworn "that the Whole of the Goods Chattels and Credits . . . do not Amount in value to the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds." (In other words, it was probably actually valued at just under that amount.) The description of Gideon's possessions, while sadly general, reflects a comfortable way of life: "I give . . . John Saint all my Household Goods; Plate, Pictures; Prints; Glasses; Bed & Table Linnen & Wearing Apparels." This was a handsome estate in the eighteenth century, far more than a craftsman would be expected to accumulate.
The estate was to be divided between the sons after certain other legacies were settled. Bequests totaling 105 pounds were made to schools, charities, and individuals within the French community in London. Furthermore, Gideon gave five pounds to each of his servants for the purchase of a mourning ring.
The European Magazine: And London Review, Volume 35 (Google eBook), Philological Society of London, 1799
Monthly Obiutary
p. 358
(ed.-April) 24.
At Hall place, Kent, Gideon saint efq. Of Groombridge, Kent.
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