William Gaston / Mary Olivet Lemon


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	Family Sheet HUSBAND Name: William GastonMale Note Born: 16851685-1-1 at Caranleagh, Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland Married: Abt 17001700-1-1 at IrelandIreland Died: 17701770-1-1 at IrelandIreland Father: John Gaston Mother: Esther Naugh WIFE Name: Mary Olivet Lemon Born: Abt 1695 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: CHILDREN Name: John Gaston Justice Born: 4 Apr 1703 at Cloughwater, Antrim County, Ireland Died: 1782 at Fishing Creek, Chester County, South Carolina Wife: Esther Waugh Name: Elizabeth Gaston Born: 1707 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: Husband: John Knox Name: Hugh Gaston Reverend Born: Abt 1710 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: 20 Oct 1766 at Chester County, South Carolina Wife: Mary Thomson Name: Mary Gaston Born: 1712 at Ireland Died: Jan 1802 at Chester, South Carolina Husband: James Mcclure Name: Robert Gaston Born: 1722 at Caranliegh Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland Died: 9 May 1787 at Lynches Creek, Lancaster County, South Carolina Wife: Margaret Logan Name: Janet Gaston Born: 1726 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: 29 Apr 1801 at Fairfield County, South Carolina Husband: Charles Strong Name: William Gaston Born: 1735 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: Abt 1790 at Kell s Ford, Chester County, South Carolina Wife: Jane Harbison Name: Alexander Gaston Dr. Born: 1739 at County Antrim, Ireland Died: 20 Aug 1781 at New Bern, North Carolina Wife: Margaret Sharpe Name: Martha Gaston Born: 1741 at Ireland Died: 1804 at Chester County, South Carolina Husband: Alexander Rosborough NOTES 1). William Gaston was a grandson of Huguenot Jean Ga ston. Jean Gaston was banished from France by the Catholic s and fled to Calvinist Scotland about the middle of the se venteenth century. Jean Gaston s property was confiscated . The brothers and relatives of Jean Gaston who remained Ca tholics in France sent means of support to Scotland. Jean Gaston was a devout man. The worst language he wa s ever heard to use was when he hurt his mouth with a tabl e fork, an implement just coming into use. Jean Gaston excl aimed, Devil take the fork! His Calvinistic progeny remem bered the story for over a hundred years. Sons of Jean Gaston emigrated from Scotland to Count y Antrim, Ireland, in the 1660 s, a time of religious perse cution in Scotland. John Gaston appears on the hearthmoney rate l ist for Ireland in 1669, as a resident of Magheragall, County Antrim. William Gaston. Jean Gaston s grandson, lived at Cloug h Water, County Antrim, near Ballymena Ireland. William G aston was father of the first Gastons to come to the stat e of South Carolina. William Gaston married Mary OlivetL emon. Nine sons end daughters of William and Mary Lemon Gas ton left Ireland to come to America for religious and econo mic reasons. To William and Mary Lemon Gaston were born the followi ng children 1 John Gaston was born circa 1710 died in 1 782. John Gaston married Esther Waugh born circa 1715 die d in 1789 . Lived in Chester County. South Carolina. 2 Elizabeth Gaston married John Knox and lived in C hester County. 3 Hugh Gaston married Mary Thomson, daught er of the Reverend James Thomson, a Presbyterian minister in Ireland. Hug h Gaston died in S.C. on October 20, 1766. Hugh Gaston wa s a Presbyterian minister. 4 Mary Gaston married Jame s McClure. Lived in Chester County. James McClure will wa s probated in Charleston, in 1771. Mary Gaston McClure wil l was probated in Chester in 1802. 5 Robert Gaston lived on Lynchs Creek in Lancaster C ounty, South Carolina. 6 Jenny Gaston married Charles Strong and lived i n Chester County. 7 William Gaston married Jane Harbiso n. William Gaston was drowned at Kell s Ford, Chester Co unty, circa 1790. 8 Martha Gaston married Alexander Rosborough and li ved in Chester County, 9 Alexander Gaston married Margaret Sharpe. Alexande r Gaston was a physician in New Bern, North Carolina, and w as killed by Tories, August 20, 1781. !BIRTH Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Ida Jackson Kit , Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Ida Jackson Kitchens , Caroliniana Library, USC Columbia, SC. If you want me to let you know when I change the website, please signup here (no more then once a quarter!)

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