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Agnes ___

Agnes ___

Female - Aft 1650

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  • Name Agnes ___ 
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft 1650  Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Some researchers identify Agnes as possibly the daughter of Phillip of Navarre, and it is also said that she was accused of witchcraft in 1650 [per "Surnames of Scotland" by George F. Black]. But other researchers have convincingly refuted those assertions, and have further cast doubt that the wife of Jean Gaston was named Agnes at all. Although we side more with the skeptics, we nonetheless report Jean Gaston's wife as Agnes simply out of tradition. [1, 2]
    Person ID I1109  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 9 Aug 1994 

    Family Jean (John) GASTON,   b. CA 1600, Foix, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Children 
    +1. William GASTON,   b. CA 1642, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. John GASTON,   b. CA 1645, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Alexander GASTON,   b. 1648, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F354  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S2535] The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History, George F. Black, (The New York Public Library (1946, 1996)), p. 291.
      The entry for Gaston, in its entirety: "GASTON. An old Roxburghshire surname. David Gastoun in the toun of Lessudden, 1562 (Lauder). Hendrie Gastoun, tenant on lands of the Abbey of Kelso, 1567 (Kelso, p. 527). David Gaustone or Gaustoune in Lessuddane, 1608, and Thomas Gaston or Gastoune there in 1652 (RRM, I, p. 65, 72). Agnes Gastoun in Melrose was accused of witchcraft in 1650 (ibid, I, p. 220). A form of Gascon, 'a native of Gascony,' and Bardsley mentions a person in the reign of Henry III who is referred to as de Gasconia and de Gaston." (Note: RRM refers to "Selections from the records of the regality of Melrose and from the manuscripts of the Earl of Haddington, Edinburgh, 1914-17, 3 v.")

    2. [S85] Edward H. Couey, Scotts Mills, OR 97375.

    3. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 40.

    4. [S1845] The Huguenots, or The Early French in New Jersey, Albert F. Koehler, (original publication 1955 by Clearfield Co, republished 1992-2003 by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD), pp. 21-22.