Hi Kathy
It would be nice to know your friends name rather than address her as your friend?
For starters I will introduce myself; my name is Royston Smith, aged **, retired, married to ** and we live in Caerphilly, South Wales, UK. I have a keen interest in family history and have been researching my main line of Smith and its many branches for the past 40 years. I have also researched my wife’s family and combined we have a considerable family tree.
I am now researching the name Gaston for in April 2009 our daughter **
** is descended from Leslie Gaston, brother of David and descended from the same Robert and Annie; hence ** and your friend are distant cousins. It is unfortunate that a lot of Irish records were destroyed which makes it difficult to find who Robert’s father was so we are stuck at the same point in our respective searches for the time being.
The information I have comes from **’s father **, who has written the family tree from memory and apart from Davison & Gaston contain the surnames of Smith, Haggard, Joss, and Hadden.
I note there are Gaston, Marriages 244, Births 62 and Deaths 43 listed on the internet site Emerald Ancestors which is a pay per view source and one for the future once I have extracted all details from family members.
In the meantime this is a brief of our Gaston line
Robert John Gaston = Annie
• Robert John born c.1890
• Sarah K born c.1894
• Godfrey born c.1897
• Mathew born c.1899
• David born c.1902
• Leslie born c.1904
Leslie Gaston = *** 7 children
Well Kathy, I will leave it there for now, I hope your friend will find it useful and hope she will share her family line. Hopefully we can help each other and take our line back further.
Regards
Roy
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