James GOUNDRY 1798 – 1885 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 18 MAY 1798
Event Place: West Auckland, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 9 SEP 1804
Event Place: Auckland St. Helen, Co. Durham
Record Source: described as the third son. He was baptised at the same time as his brother John

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 15 MAY 1817
Record Source: he was a witness at the marriage of his brother William

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 DEC 1819
Record Source: he was a witness at the marriage of his sister Mary

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 14 AUG 1823 AND 1857

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 8 MAY 1829
Record Source: his wife Isabella died.

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 4 FEB 1833
Record Source: with two others he leased a Steam Mill from the Proprietors of the Montreal Water Works.

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 29 SEP 1845
Record Source: he was living at English River when he won £1-0-0d. for the best two year old Mare Colt at the County of Beauharnois Agricultural Society Show.

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1851
Record Source: he contributed £0-5s-0d. to the Durham district of the Church Society of the Diocese of Montreal.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1857
Record Source: due to political pressure the Seigniors had been made to offer their tenants the chance to purchase their holdings and James Sr. bought the Dewittville Grist and sawmills, which were operated by his sons James Jr. and William

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 MAY 1857
Record Source: living at South Georgetown, Beauharnois, Montreal, he paid 1,677 pounds for a "small piece of land.... and secondly a strip of ground... of three quarters of an acre wide on the main road . . . .an acre wide along the river".

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: OCT 1861
Record Source: he was living at South Georgetown in the parish of St. Jean Chrystotome when he sold "the mill known as "the Dewittville Grist Mill" with all machinery etc" for $7,000.

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1871
Record Source: he sold Dewittville, Hinchinbrooke, Gristmill and donated the sawmill to his son William

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 5 OCT 1871
Record Source: he was a Yeoman, living at St. Jean Chrystostome, in the District of Beauharnois when, jointly with his wife, he sold for $800 "a Saw mill and buildings on the Godmanchester side of the river" to their son William, of Godmanchester, County of Huntingdon, in the District of Beauharnois.

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 14 JUN 1873
Record Source: his wife Elizabeth died

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1876
Record Source: on behalf of his father James Jr. signed the sale of a sawmill and shingle mill at Aubrey

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 4 APR 1881
Event Place: Ste-Jean Chrystostome, Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada
Record Source: - he was a widower, and his occupation was Cultivateur

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 4 MAR 1885
Event Place: English River, Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 6 MAR 1885
Event Place: Riverfield Presbyterian Church, Quebec, Canada
Record Source: where there is a Monumental Inscription