Born: Unknown (1700s), Ireland (assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: Ireland
Also known as: Sarah Gibbell, Sarah Roe
This biography is republished from The Dictionary of Irish Biography and was written by Turlough O’Riordan. Shared by permission in line with Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ (CC BY) licencing.
Richard Pue married (29 September 1761) Sarah, daughter of John Gibball, a skinner of Skinner Row, Dublin, and his wife Mary. On his death (December 1762) he was succeeded by his wife, Sarah Pue (d. p.1776?), printer, publisher, and patent medicine seller, who married (April 1763) John Roe, with whom she had two sons. Roe, a business associate of James Pue since 1758, printed Pue’s Occurences and ran Dick’s Coffee house until 1769, when it was taken over by his brother Compton Roe. Sarah assumed control of the paper on James Roe’s death (December 1773), taking her brother David Gibbal into partnership some time after this, before selling out to John Hillary of Castle St. in June 1776. Pue continued to offer a range of patent medicines for sale from her premises in Skinner Row (1762–76) and College Green (1777–), after which she disappears from the record.