Molleson, Gilbert

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Dates 1659 – 1730
Location London
Vocation Draper
Place of Birth
Marriage Margery (?) and Sara Curtis (1715)
Issue Margaret
Place of birth Source TNA PROB 11/637/301

Born in Aberdeen in 1659, the son of Gilbert Molleson and Margaret Smith. Margaret was an early convert to Quakerism in Aberdeen, while her husband was a merchant who served on the town council and persecuted Quakers. Gilbert was made a freeman of the Drapers Company in London by 1690. Brother-in-law of Robert Barclay, the Apologist. Identified as a trustee and one of the 'correspondents inhabiting at London for the services of the truth in Scotland' in Elizabeth Dickson's 1701 bequest.