Hello all,
I have just stumbled across this stream and it is fascinating. I am very much a beginner at this, but it is proving to be an engrossing pastime...
I have so far traced & pr oven my direct paternal line, back to 1780. My father Douglas James Gunter, was born in Risca, Monmouthshire, and his Father's go back through John Arthur, Jacob, John & John, all of Machen / Bassaleg.
I have also found a Lewis Gunter who died in Bassaleg in 1743, but I haven't found definitive proof of their link as yet. I'm sure i will soon though, Machen is not a big place.
Then I have found > 1684 ~ Mar 2~ GUNTER ~Anne Thos ~Burial~Machen
Also there is a reference to a Thomas Gunter of Machen;in the national Library of Wales Archives;
Thomas Gunter, 1644 Machen. Son Morgan Thomas (Morgan ap Thomas), grandchildren Thomas Morgan, David Morgan, Margaret, Blanch & Joan Morgan children of son Morgan. Daug. Margaret married to Morgan
What I would really like to do is find out if these connect, & if we then connect back to the Abergavenny / Breconshire line to Gunterstone Tre-Gunter... Its a tantalisingly short distance up the Usk from Newport.....
Can anyone help?
Many thanks in anticipation,
Ian Gunter.