Isabella (Clarke) Gamble (1767-1859)

Mrs Isabella Elizabeth (Clarke) Gamble

She was from a Loyalist family and grew up in Stratford, Connecticut. On returning from Barbados, her maternal grandmother, Mrs Mary (Woodbridge) Alleyne, lived at the celebrated Dorothy Q. Homestead in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1784, at Mangerville, New Brunswick, Isabella married John Gamble, Surgeon to the Queen's Rangers. From 1802, they lived at Kingston in Upper Canada.

They were the parents of thirteen children of whom ten reached adulthood: (1) Isabella, married Robert Charles Horne (2) Mary Ann, first wife of Lt.-Col. John Sutherland Sinclair, father of the 16th Earl of Caithness (3) Sarah, married James Geddes (4) Leah, married William Allan of Moss Park, Toronto (5) John William Gamble, married Mary Macaulay (6) Jane, married Benjamin Whitney (7) Rachel, married Sir James Buchanan Macaulay, brother of Mary (8) William, married Elizabeth Brenchley, niece of Field Marshal Sir William Rowan (9) Catherine, married Thomas William Birchall (10) Clarke, married first Mary Sayre Boulton who grew up at The Grange and secondly her first cousin, Harriet Boulton

Parents (2)

Dr. Joseph Clarke

of Stratford, Connecticut

1731-1813

Isabella (Alleyne) Clarke

Mrs Isabella Elizabeth (Alleyne) Clarke

1743-1813

Spouse (1)

John Gamble

M.D., of Kingston, Upper Canada; Surgeon to the Queen's Rangers

1755-1811

Children (10)

Isabella (Gamble) Horne

Mrs Isabella Leah (Gamble) Horne

1785-1863

Mary (Gamble) Sinclair

Mrs Mary Ann Alleyne (Gamble) Sinclair

b.1786

Sarah (Gamble) Geddes

Mrs Sarah Hannah Boies (Gamble) Geddes

1788-1859

Leah (Gamble) Allan

Mrs Leah Tyrer (Gamble) Allan, of Moss Park, Toronto

1790-1858

John William Gamble

The Hon. John W. Gamble, M.P., of "Pine Grove" Woodbridge, Ontario

1799-1873

Jane (Gamble) Whitney

Mrs Jane Smith (Gamble) Whitney

b.1801

Rachel (Gamble) Macaulay

Lady Rachel Crookshank (Gamble) Macaulay

1803-1883

William Gamble

J.P., Merchant & Mill Owner, of "Milton" Etobicoke, Upper Canada

1805-1881

Catherine (Gamble) Birchall

Mrs Catherine Magdalene (Gamble) Birchall

b.1807

Clarke Gamble

(Joseph) Clarke Gamble Q.C., of Toronto

1808-1902