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Robert GASTON

Robert GASTON

Male 1720 - Bef 1787  (67 years)

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  • Name Robert GASTON 
    Born 1720  County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Residence Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Died Bef 9 May 1787  Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • Resided at Lynch's Creek, Lancaster County, SC. Lived previously in Pennsylvania after his emigration to America. Some of his descendants moved to Illinois. Performed patriotic service during the Revolutionary War by supplying beef and a horse for the American cause. Regarding the children of Robert and Margaret Gaston, Burgess' "The Gaston Genealogy," p. 87, makes no mention of Stephen, and provides Thomas only as an unconfirmed possibility. But other sources, particularly Mary Gaston Gee, provide strong confirmation of Thomas Gaston and also include Stephen. Hanna, without identifying a wife, lists only six children for this Robert Gaston, making no mention of either Thomas or Stephen. [2]
    Person ID I3318  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 31 May 2006 

    Father William GASTON,   b. 1680, Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. CA 1770, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Olivet LEMON,   b. 1688, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1752  (Age 64 years) 
    Family ID F1172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret LOGAN  [4] 
    Married 1756  Lancaster Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. William GASTON,   b. 10 Jul 1757, Lancaster Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1838, Marion Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    +2. Thomas GASTON,   b. 18 Jul 1759, Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1832  (Age 72 years)
    +3. James GASTON,   b. 24 Jul 1761,   d. 7 Mar 1840, Wayne Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     4. Margaret GASTON,   b. 1764,   d. 6 Mar 1816  (Age 52 years)
     5. John GASTON,   b. CA 1766, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1836, Shelby Co, IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
     6. Joseph GASTON,   b. CA 1770, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1839, Greene Co, TN Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
     7. Elizabeth GASTON,   b. CA 1772, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. CA 1810, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years)
     8. Stephen GASTON
     9. Martha GASTON,   b. CA 1774, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. CA 1851, Pulaski Co, KY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years)
    +10. Hugh GASTON,   b. 1776,   d. 1830  (Age 54 years)
    Family ID F1182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S554] Ireland birth/marriage/christening records, Page 10,322.
      Parents listed as William Gaston and Olivet Lemon.

    2. [S1868] The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 12.

    3. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 41.

    4. [S501] The Gaston Genealogy, Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, (1989), p. 87.