Rebecca Burleigh (fl. 1714–1718)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 2780

Names

  • Rebecca Burleigh
  • née Rebecca Falls
  • Rebecca Graves

Rebecca Burleigh, trade publisher, bookseller, and printer in Amen Corner (1714–18). She was the widow of Ferdinando Burleigh, bookseller in the same location, whom she had wed in a clandestine marriage on 25 December 1711 (in the record he identified his trade as printer). A son Ferdinando, "of Ferdinando & Rebecca Burleigh," was christened at St. Botolph Aldgate on 26 April 1713. Ferdinando Burleigh died in 1714 and Rebecca took over the business, publishing under the name "R. Burleigh." Among other activities, she worked for Edmund Curll, bookseller. Rebecca Burleigh of Christ's Church, London, married William Graves of St. James Westminster at St. Martin in the Fields on the 20th of February 1718. Graves' allegation (18th of February) attested he was a stationer, aged twenty-two. Burleigh's shop was closed when she married.

The National Archives, Kew; General Register Office: Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison, the Mint and the May Fair Chapel; Class: RG 7; Piece: 819 and Piece: 23.

London Metropolitan Archives, London; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/BOT1/A/001/MS03854/003.

On Burleigh's working for Curll, see Baines and Rogers, Edmund Curll, Bookseller, chapters 4 and 5.

City of Westminster Archives Centre, London; Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: STM/PR/6/6.

Marriage Bonds and Allegations, The London Archives.