Jul-28-2018
Husband: William Gaston
Born: 1680 in Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland 1 (see note 1)
Died: ca 1770 in Ireland 2,3,4,5
Father: John Gaston (1645 - )
Mother: Unknown
Notes 2
Wife: Olivet Lemon 2
Also known as: Mary Lemmon
Born: 1688 in Scotland 5,6
Died: 1752 5
Father:
Mother:
Notes
M Child 1: John Gaston
Also known as: Justice John Gaston
Born: Apr- 4-1703 in Ireland (see note 2)
Died: 1782 in South Carolina 7,2,8,9
Buried: in Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co, SC 7
Resided: (settled 1751/52) at Fishing Creek, Chester Co, SC 2
Immigrated: 1749 to Pennsylvania 2,10
Occupation: farmer, surveyor, Justice in South Carolina 6
Wife: Esther Waugh b. 1715 d. 1789
Married: in Ireland 6
F Child 2: Mary Gaston
Born: 1712 in Ireland 11,12
Died: 1802 11 (see note 3)
Buried: in Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co, SC 7
Resided: (settled) in South Carolina 13
Husband: James McClure
F Child 3: Janet Gaston
Also known as: Jinny Gaston 9
Born: 1714 in Ireland
Resided: (settled) in South Carolina 13
Husband: Charles Strong
F Child 4: Martha Gaston
Born: 1718 in Ireland
Resided: (settled) in Chester Co, SC 14,9
Husband: Alexander Rosborough
Also known as: Alexander Rosbrough 14
M Child 5: Robert Gaston
Born: 1720 in County Antrim, Ireland 15,16,13
Died: bef May 9 1787 at Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC 16
Resided: at Lynch's Creek, Lancaster Co, SC 13
Wife: Margaret Logan
Married: 1756 in Lancaster Co, PA
M Child 6: Hugh Gaston
Born: 1722 in Ireland
Died: Oct-20-1766 in South Carolina
Buried: in Burnt Meeting House Cemetery, Wylie's Mill, Chester Co, SC
Immigrated: abt 1766 13
Occupation: Presbyterian minister 13
Wife: Mary Thomson
M Child 7: Alexander Gaston
Born: 1727 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland 17
Died: Aug-20-1781 in New Bern, Craven Co, NC 14,18
Occupation: physician 9,13
Wife: Margaret Sharpe b. 1755 d. 1811
Married: May- -1775 19,20
F Child 8: Elizabeth Gaston
Born: 1727/30 in Ireland 13
Resided: in Chester Co, SC 9,14
Husband: John Knox
M Child 9: William Gaston
Born: 1735 in Ireland 21
Died: 1790 in Kell's Ford, Chester Co, SC 13,9
Cause of death: drowned 13
Wife: Jane Harbison
Married: aft 1775 13
Sources:
(1) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989). Also, Ireland
birth/marriage/christening records on file at Mormon FHC's show the birth of a William Gaston to a John Gaston (wife not
named) in County Antrim in 1680. (Page 10,323), p. 77.
(2) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 40.
(3) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 9.
(4) Arthur P. Dodge, The Bay State Monthly, A Massachusetts Magazine, Vol II, No. 5, Feb 1885 (www.gutenberg.org)
(5) Bill Gaston, Austin TX , Descendants: The Huguenot John Jean Gaston b: About 1600, France.
(6) Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina, 1982, p. 195.
(7) Headstone.
(8) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989), p. 86.
(9) Chalmers Gaston Davidson, Gaston of Chester, Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956), Based chiefly on notes and
records preserved by Judge Arthur Lee Gaston, and privately printed according to his will. p.
xi.
(10) Jane Farrell Burgess, 11700 Dinwiddie Dr, Rockville, MD 20852, The Gaston Genealogy (1989), p. 78.
(11) Headstone (year only)
(12) Ireland birth/marriage/christening records, Max Perry reports her birth as 1712, which corresponds to her headstone.
DAR Lineage Book (p. 103) states it as 1725.
(13) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 41.
(14) Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900), p. 42.
(15) Ireland birth/marriage/christening records, Parents listed as William Gaston and Olivet Lemon. Page 10,322.
(16) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 12.
(17) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston: Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949.
(18) Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg
County, South Carolina (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 10.
(19) J. Herman Schauinger, William Gaston: Carolinian, Bruce Publishing Company, 1949, p. 3.
(20) Dorothy Perry Brawley, The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends (1995), p. 109.
(21) Birthplace according to Max Perry.
Event Notes
Note (1) "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 41, reports birth date as about 1680-90;
"Colonial Families of the United States," Vol III, p. 175, reports it as 1685.
Note (2) Headstone has birth date as 1700, while "Gaston of Chester" states ca
1710.
Note (3) DAR Lineage Book (p. 103) states her death date as 1800.
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