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I can't seem to find any birth information or parental information on a 10 x Great Grandfather called Israel Giew/Gue. He died 1692 in Gussage All Saints, Dorset, England. He married a Grace Lane.
I have reason to believe he may have been Jewish due to his first and last name? not entirely sure though or if this would be the reason I can't find any type of birth record. Could anyone help?
Many thanks!
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Just adding that his marriage to Grace Lane took place at Gussage (St Michael) 7 Sep 1654
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Dorset OPC site has his name as Farell ::)
http://www.opcdorset.org/GussageStMichaelFiles/GussageStMichaelMars1654-1837.htm
Possible baptism: Israell Gue, 1627, at Ringwood, Hampshire; father Thomas.
Numerous online trees giving a birth in Gussage All Saints but no source shown. ::)
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Dorset OPC site has his name as Farell ::)
http://www.opcdorset.org/GussageStMichaelFiles/GussageStMichaelMars1654-1837.htm
Possible baptism: Israell Gue, 1627, at Ringwood, Hampshire; father Thomas.
Numerous online trees giving a birth in Gussage All Saints but no source shown. ::)
Thank you for the info.
I did see him in quite a few online trees but also couldn't find any sources for his birth on them either. But the one in Hampshire looks promising.
Would I be right in thinking he may be Jewish? my Dad seems to think the surname Gue/Giew stands for Jew.
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If you google 'Surname Gue' some sites suggest that it is French.
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If he was Jewish he would not have been baptised.
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Last name: Gue
Recorded as Delagua, Dugue, Duguet, Gue, and probably others, this is a French surname. It is cognate with the English word and surname 'Ford', being residential, and describing somebody who lived by a shallow river crossing, or who may have come from a town or village of the same name.
There are several websites where you can enter a surname and it will give information of historical country of distribution. I tried a French website and discovered Gue was common to several areas of France.
Websites showing Distribution of surname Gue
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Surname_Distribution_Maps
and on the subject of the familysearch website, they have several French bap;tisms of people born "Gue" living along the coast of France in Brittany/Bretagne,
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https://gw.geneanet.org/framptonrgig?lang=en&pz=christina+rose&nz=frampton&p=israel&n=gue
tree owner - Ruth Frampton - any relation ?
19,000 records of the Gue surname in England on this site
https://en.geneanet.org/fonds/individus/?size=10&ignore_each_patronyme=&ignore_each_prenom=&type_periode=between&exact_month=&exact_day=&exact_year=&sexe=&nom=gue&ignore_each_patronyme=&prenom=&prenom_operateur=or&ignore_each_prenom=&place__0__=&zonegeo__0__=England%2C+United+Kingdom&country__0__=GBR®ion__0__=ENG&subregion__0__=&place__1__=&zonegeo__1__=&country__1__=®ion__1__=&subregion__1__=&place__2__=&zonegeo__2__=&country__2__=®ion__2__=&subregion__2__=&place__3__=&zonegeo__3__=&country__3__=®ion__3__=&subregion__3__=&place__4__=&zonegeo__4__=&country__4__=®ion__4__=&subregion__4__=&type_periode=between&from=&to=&exact_month=&exact_day=&exact_year=&go=1
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Biblical names are very common in some families. My grandfather had an uncle Israel with siblings Rebekah, Elias, Susannah, etc. and they weren't Jewish.