Jul-28-2018
Husband: John Gaston
Born: ca 1645 in Scotland
Died: in Ireland
Emigrated: abt 1660-1668 to County Antrim, Ireland 1
Father: Jean (John) Gaston (1600 - )
Mother: Agnes ___ ( - 1650)
Notes 2
Wife: Unknown
Father:
Mother:
M Child 1: William Gaston
Born: 1680 in Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland 3 (see note 1)
Died: ca 1770 in Ireland 1,4,5,6
Wife: Olivet Lemon b. 1688 d. 1752
Also known as: Mary Lemmon
M Child 2: Hugh Gaston
Also known as: Hugh of Peapack
Born: ca 1687 in County Antrim, Ireland 7,8
Died: Dec-23-1772 in Bedminster Twp, Somerset Co, NJ 7,9,10
Buried: in Lamington Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Somerset Co, NJ 10,7
Wife: Jennet Kirkpatrick b. ca 1698 d. Aug- 1-1777
Married: ca 1718 8 (see note 2)
F Child 3: Mary Gaston
Born: 1695 in Ireland 11
Husband: James Cauldwell b. 1691
Married: in Ireland 11
M Child 4: Joseph Gaston
Born: ca 1700 in County Antrim, Ireland 12,8
Died: Apr- -1777 in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ 12,8,13
Resided: aft abt 1720 in Bernards Twp, Somerset Co, NJ 12
Resided: until abt 1720 in Ireland 12,13
Occupation: farmer 8
Wife: Margaret ___ b. ca 1705 d. Aug-31-1795
Married: 1725/28 8
M Child 5: John Gaston
Born: ca 1703 in County Antrim, Ireland 14,15
Died: Mar-29-1783 in Voluntown, New London Co, CT 14,15
Wife: Janet Thomson b. 1711 d. Nov- 3-1806
Married: ca 1735 in Voluntown, New London Co, CT 15,2
M Child 6: Alexander Gaston
Born: 1714 in Ireland 16,17,18 (see note 3)
Died: Aug-24-1783 in Berkshire Co, MA
Buried: in Cone Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Berkshire Co, MA 19,20
Resided: in Richmond, Berkshire Co, MA
Resided: formerly in Salisbury, Litchfield Co, CT
Resided: 1747 in Voluntown, New London Co, CT
Military: Officer in French & Indian War
Wife: Mary "Molly" Wilson b. 1716 d. Jul-30-1804
Married: Sep-29-1743 21
Sources:
(1) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 40.
(2) Edward H. Couey, Scotts Mills, OR 97375.
(3) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989). Also, Ireland
birth/marriage/christening records on file at Mormon FHC's show the birth of a William Gaston to a John Gaston (wife not
named) in County Antrim in 1680. (Page 10,323), p. 77.
(4) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 9.
(5) Arthur P. Dodge, The Bay State Monthly, A Massachusetts Magazine, Vol II, No. 5, Feb 1885 (www.gutenberg.org)
(6) Bill Gaston, Austin TX , Descendants: The Huguenot John Jean Gaston b: About 1600, France.
(7) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 42.
(8) Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5
(1916) (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html)
(9) Anna Reger Gaston, Gaston Family Lines of Somerset, "Somerset County Historical Quarterly," Somerville, NJ, Vol. 5
(1916) (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~windmill/html/somersev.html), p. 35.
(10) Headstone.
(11) John Littell, Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Passaic Valley (1851)
(http://www.archive.org/details/familyrecordsorg00litt)
(12) Albert F. Koehler, The Huguenots, or The Early French in New Jersey, original publication 1955 by Clearfield Co,
republished 1992-2003 by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, pp. 21-22.
(13) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 46.
(14) American Ancestry, Vol. V (originally published 1890 by Joel Munsell's Sons; republished 1968 by Genealogical
Publishing Co, Baltimore), p. 104.
(15) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 47.
(16) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death.
(17) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), Other
sources state birth of this Alexander Gaston was between 1707 & 1714. "Colonial Families of U.S." (Vol III, p 175)
states 1707 in Ballymena. p. 48.
(18) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989), p. 41.
(19) Findagrave.com.
(20) Bob Gaston, 139 Victoria St, Longview, WA 98632, , in "Gaston Crier Newsletter," Vol 1, No 2, Nov 1997,
at http://mvn.net/genealogy Jane Farrell Burgess, p. 41, identifies it as "Southwest Cemetery, Cone
Hill"
(21) Audley DeForest Gaston & Judy Gaston Woodard, Austin, TX.
Event Notes
Note (1) "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 41, reports birth date as about 1680-90;
"Colonial Families of the United States," Vol III, p. 175, reports it as 1685.
Note (2) probably in Ireland
Note (3) Some reserchers report birth as early as 1707.
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