James Gaunt of Great Paxton

[janful 55]

Does anyone have any info on a James Gaunt of Great Paxton, Huntingtonshire. b. about 1786 Married Susannah jackson in 1827, she was his second wife,
Children from 1st wife were,Naomi, b. 1807
Henry
Richard
Ruth
Boaz Rachel
Children with Susannah;
Hephzibah
Jemima
Kezia
Boaz
David
Sarah
Rhoda
I am looking for James Parents, mother or grandmother was named Hephzibah.

[bedfordshire boy]

I'm looking for the same information! It is believed that daughter Hephzibar married William Crowden from March, Cambs, and emigrated to the USA in 1853. You're not in touch with Cheryl in Chicago by any chance?

A few clues:

- in the 1841 census James was stated to have been born in Huntingdonshire
- his daughter Naomi by his first wife married Thomas Slade in 1828. In the 1851 and 1861 censuses her birthplace was given as St Neots, Hunts
- his son Richard's (by his first wife)  place of birth in the 1851/61/71 censuses was Eynesbury which is now part of St Neots
- in Feb 1819 he received assistance from the parish of Gt Paxton to bury one of his children, John, aged 8, so he must have moved from St Neots/Eynesbury prior to 1819
- daughter Ruth was born c 1824 in Gt Paxton per 1851 census

So my line of attack will be to check the St Neots and Eynesbury parish registers, for both his first marriage, christenings of his children, and his possible baptism

Problem: the registers have not been filmed either by the LDS or by Hunts FHS so the only way to view them is by a visit to Huntingdon Record Office, which I've not yet had the opportunity to do.

There were also a lot of Gaunts in the neighbouring village of Offord Darcy.

I suspect his first wife was named Edith as there is a burial in Gt Paxton on 28 Jan 1826 of Edith Gaunt aged 38.

I'll also send you a direct message.

Regards

David

[janful 55]

I see there is someone else looking for Gaunts.
If they are interested they can contact me at
jfulmer@ckt.net or my cousin Cheryl at Cheryl_kale2000@yahoo.com

janis

[sarahgaunt]

I stumbled onto this forum while searching for information on my family. I'm Sarah Gaunt, daughter of James, and this thread really caught my eye! I was looking for information/facts behind a family rumor. The rumor is that we owned a castle in Retford just a few decades ago, but that it lay unclaimed for so long that the government turned it into a nursing home... Sounds outrageous and exciting to me, so I was looking it up.
Our family history breaks off in the middle there, leaving a great huge chunk of nothingness. We don't know how we got from England to America. My family's been in America for generations now. (Mostly Texas and Illinois.)

[cherylkale]

Sarah,

What do you have on the Illinois gaunts? I'm thinking we may be able to backtrack using the Illinois death certs,etc. I'm related to Hepzibah. jan Fulmer is my cousin. David Cooper has been helping us.

Cheryl

[Gillg]

According to the Gt Paxton 1841 census Sarah Gaunt daughter of James and Susannah was age 2, and in the 1861 there is a Sarah Gaunt b Gt Paxton aged 16, a fellow servant with my gt-gt-aunt Deborah Fairey at the farm of Mr Blott in Gt Staughton.  I don't know if this is your Sarah, or if Sarah and Deborah were related or just working together by chance.