Jacob GOUNDRY 1831 – 1913 – Genealogical Records

Sources

Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: ABT 1831
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1 JAN 1832
Event Place: Auckland St. Andrew, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 6 JUN 1841
Event Place: Wharton Cottage, Coundon, Co. Durham
Record Source: living with his parents and four siblings.
Age:
10y

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 JUN 1858
Record Source: in a newspaper he challenged three named men to play him at Fives with a 1½ oz. ball for £5 a side, at the Shafto Arms, Byers Green.

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1861 AND 1903

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1867 AND 1877

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 MAY 1868
Record Source: at Bishop Auckland Police Court four women were charged with doing damage to a field, the property of Jacob GOUNDRY - they were ordered to pay costs.

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 SEP 1869
Record Source: an inquest was held into the death of John TURNBULL, 28, who was killed in Byers Green Colliery by a large stone falling upon him. John BRANNAN, a Coal Hewer, said he had been working with the deceased, and at about 10 am. had gone from where he had been sitting working and went a short distance away, when almost immediately a large stone came down and completely covered the deceased up. Some pieces of stone struck me on the back, but I was no worse. I spoke to the deceased but got no answer, I took my lamp and saw that he was under the stone. I got assistance and after about an hour and a half we got the stone off him, it was blue stone, and was about six feet long, a yard and a half broad, and about a yard in thickness. The deputy was at work at about four o'clock that morning, and he timbered the place well up. There was no carelessness either on my part or that of the deceased. The roof is a level one, but I observed a breaker in it, the stone had come away from the roof at the breaker. The deputy said it was a dangerous stone, and cautioned us to look at it. Jacob GOUNDRY, Deputy Overman at Byers Green Colliery, said he had examined the stone some time previous to it falling on to the deceased, and to having timbered it well up, and cautioned the deceased and BRANNAN to look after it. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death".

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 NOV 1882
Record Source: his wife, described as well-dressed, was fined for drunkenness - the village policeman "declared the woman, who had an infant in her arms, to be a shocking character. She drank away her husband's money and goods, caroused with other men in the house and brought her husband to absolute destitution".

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 11 DEC 1882
Record Source: at Bishop Auckland Court, "Elizabeth GOUNDRY (sic - probably Tabitha), a young girl, charged her brother Jacob with assaulting her at Byers Green. The father, supported by defendant and a younger brother, complained indignantly to the Bench that his wife, with whom he was not living, was both dissipated and unfaithful. She had been seen to break the house windows, to put the complainant through the broken glass, and then make off with bedding, provisions, and anything the girl could lay hands on. P.C. SHARP said Mrs GOUNDRY was a disgraceful character, and the summons was now dismissed, Mrs GOUNDRY having been put out of court for disrespect to the Bench".

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 22 AUG 1891
Record Source: the first annual Dog Show at Byers Green, in connection with the Byers Green Floral and Horticultural Society, attracted 80 entries. In the Greyhound class Jacob GOUNDRY's dog Blucher was highly commended

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 MAY 1903
Record Source: at Auckland Police Court, Joseph GOUNDRY, a Miner, was charged with placing an explosive near a dwelling in Shaftoe-street, Byers Green, with intent to do bodily harm to Mrs Frank JACKSON and her family, who lived in the house; his father Jacob, and James QUINN, both Miners, with charged with aiding and abetting him. Mrs JACKSON said that "late on the night on May 1st Jacob and his son had a disturbance. Soon after four windows were broken in her house with a poker. At about three o'clock in the morning of the 2nd she saw the three defendants near her house. They were making a noise as if putting something into the hole at about a yard from the window. She looked out of the broken window and saw QUINN, and heard men talking. She saw defendant Joseph GOUNDRY in a stooping position near the wall and she saw him suddenly get up and run away, and a minute later an explosion took place"

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 JUL 1903
Record Source: at Durham Summer Assizes, Joseph GOUNDRY, his father Jacob and another man were charged with "Feloniously and maliciously placing gunpowder against the dwelling-house of Hannah JACKSON, the said Hannah JACKSON then being in the said dwelling-house, at Byers Green on 2nd May, 1903. Also "the same with intent to injure John Thomas JACKSON". They were all found Not Guilty, and discharged.

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 2 APR 1911
Event Place: 17 Front Double Row, Quarrington Hill, Co. Durham
Record Source: living with his daughter Margaret SEATON, her husband, their daughter, and a boarder in a three-roomed house
Age:
80y

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 21 MAY 1913
Event Place: Durham Registration District
Record Source: Age:
77y

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: MAY 1913
Event Place: St. Paul's, Cassop, Co. Durham