Gaunt-5 Question

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I haven't updated the information on Wiki Tree for years since I am using Ancestry.com now. My initial information though came mostly from David L. Gauntt's book "Peter Gaunt 1610-1680 And Some of His Decendants", page viii. Please let me know if you have more accurate information. I would most appreciate it. Thanks

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Answer 1

Michael, I see that you own the ancestors of Peter Gaunt.  I just put a comment on the profile of his supposed father, Thomas of Pinchbeck.  50 miles from Lincoln and no corroborating records other than a father named Thomas, do you have any other records or sources that support this?

In fact, I've been starting to look into this.  The Pinchbeck wife of Thomas Gaunt was in fact Isabell Richardson.  She was listed as a widow when she married Gaunt as Isabell Wheelwright in 1602; she was the widow of Thomas Wheelwright of Gosberton (4 miles from Pinchbeck) who married Isabell Richardson there in 1596.  I wrote profiles with sources for Thomas and Isabell but I still question whether they were the parents of Peter Gaunt of Lincoln.

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I found a Thomas Gaunt, son of John Gaunt, who was christened at St Michael, Stamford, Lincoln on 6 Nov 1588. Source: England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, FHL Film Number 504769.

This MIGHT be the same Thomas Gaunt that married Susan Bate on 28 Aug 1609 in Rotherham, Yorkshire. He would have been 21 at the time. They would have had to travel from Rotherham to Lincoln in a year in order to birth Peter in Lincoln in 1610 though.

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Some Stamford/Pinchbeck crossover might well be possible, they are only 20 miles apart.  I saw Joe's comment that the Peter Gaunt born at Stamford in 1609 was buried there the same year.  This is definitely trying to find the right needle in a pile of needles.  I haven't found any wills or anything else so far at BHO or the UK Nat. Archives to help shed any light.

Rotherham is much farther away from Pinchbeck, Stamford & Lincoln so I would hesitate to look that far afield unless we knew that there was some connection to these other areas.

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Re: Rotherham, actually I saw a record that makes it a little more interesting.  We know that a Thomas died at Lincoln in 1621.  In 1626, Susan Gaunt, widow was buried at St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln.  It's almost 50 miles from Lincoln as you said but the names and ages would match.  The wills of Thomas & Susan shold be available on-site at a family history center so within the next week I will be able to look for them.  There is also a 1624 will of Nicholas Gaunt of Pinchbeck which may also answer some questions about the Gaunts of that parish.

Re: Stamford, there were enough Gaunts there including the Peter son of Thomas born 1609 who died as an infant that they may have just stayed in Stamford but it seems that some Thomas from somewhere traveled to Lincoln to have Peter in 1610.

Answer 2

Having downloaded and transcribed the wills of Thomas Gaunt of Lincoln (written 1621) who named his "now wife Susan" (i.e. his not-first wife) and the will of the said Susan Gaunt (written 1626) I believe we have the parentage of Peter Gaunt of Lincoln.  Both wills named son Peter; Susan's will specified that he was her "only son".  She named no daughters, and she named her uncle Robert Bate (of Market Rasen, Lincs) and her brothers Thomas and Adam Bate (the latter of Sheffield, York).  Susan's will also specified that Peter was under 21 which matches a birth of 1610, making him 16 when she wrote her will.  Interestingly she also bequeathed to her "son in law James Gaunt"; was this a step-son and a son of Thomas by a prior wife?

While this brings the Rotherham Gaunts into close focus (especially as her brother Adam Bate was of Sheffield, about 6 miles from Rotherham), as we know that Thomas Gaunt married Susan Bate there in 1609, it does not support the idea that this was originally the Thomas Gaunt who married Isabell Richardson Wheelwright in Pinchbeck almost 90 miles from Rotherham.  It is still obviously possible, but is not supported by anything discovered to-date.

Thomas' will also seemed to name an eldest son Thomas and daughters Anne & Jane but this will is hard to read and needs some more attention.  Both these wills require you to be on-site at a Family History Center, Thomas' is here and Susan's is here.

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Brad,

Outstanding research! So there is probably a few Thomas Gaunt's running around England in the 16th-17th centuries. The plot thickens!

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Brilliant work, Brad.

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You are too kind :)

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Thanks Michael, there were for sure clusters of them around Grimoldby by the coast, closer to Pinchbeck around Gedney and the Stamford ones that we talked about.

My plan is to split the current Thomas Gaunt-202 into two profiles, one of Pinchbeck who married Isabel Richardson and one of Silkstone, Rotherham and Lincoln who married Susan Bate and was the father of Peter Gaunt the New England immigrant.  The unfortunate thing is while we know the father of Susan Bate and maybe can discover more, we don't know the parents of Thomas since the baptismal register, or at least the transcription of it did not contain their names so this may be as far as we get for now.