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SIGN UPJohn Wesley GOUNDRY 1838 – 1905 – Genealogical Records
Birth Date: 21 DEC 1838
Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham
Death Date: 8 MAR 1905
Death Location: Lambeth, Surrey
Father: Jacob GOUNDRY
Mother: Ann HANN
Spouse(s): Margaret THOMPSON
Children(s): Ruth GOUNDRY, Janet GOUNDRY, Jacob GOUNDRY, Margaret GOUNDRY, Lucy GOUNDRY, Arthur GOUNDRY, John GOUNDRY, Walter GOUNDRY
The story of John Wesley GOUNDRY began in 1838 in Shildon, Co. Durham, with parents Jacob GOUNDRY and Ann HANN. As an adult, John Wesley GOUNDRY wed Margaret THOMPSON. Their household included Ruth Annie GOUNDRY, Janet Amelia Kate Mary GOUNDRY, Jacob Ernest James GOUNDRY, Margaret Edith GOUNDRY, Lucy Elizabeth Beatrice (Betsie) GOUNDRY, Arthur Charles GOUNDRY, John Alfred GOUNDRY and Walter Edwin GOUNDRY. John Wesley GOUNDRY's life came to an end in 1905 in Lambeth, Surrey.
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Parents
Jacob GOUNDRY
1803 – 1869
Birth Location: Eldon, Co. Durham
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Ann HANN
1811 – 1870
Birth Location: Carrville, Northumberland
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Spouses(s)
Margaret THOMPSON
1846 – 1919
Birth Location: Fremington, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding)
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Children(s)
Ruth GOUNDRY
1868 – 1957
Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham
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Janet GOUNDRY
1870 – 1959
Birth Location: Old Shildon, Co. Durham
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Jacob GOUNDRY
1871 – 1951
Birth Location: South Durham Villa, Shildon, Co. Durham
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Margaret GOUNDRY
1873 – 1964
Birth Location: Old Shildon, Co. Durham
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Lucy GOUNDRY
1875 – 1924
Birth Location: Old Shildon, Co. Durham
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Arthur GOUNDRY
1877 – 1953
Birth Location: Old Shildon, Co. Durham
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John GOUNDRY
1879 – 1968
Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham
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Walter GOUNDRY
1881 – 1970
Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham
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Sources
Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: 21 DEC 1838
Event Place: Shildon, Co. Durham
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Year: 24 FEB 1839
Event Place: Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Co. Durham
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUN 1861
Record Source: he was organist at the Shildon Wesleyan Chapel, and performed in a concert on their recently-built organ
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 OCT 1863
Record Source: he was an amateur inventor, and filed a patent for "Improvements in Musical Instruments", involving a "very elaborate electric system" and an "elaborate arrangement for coupling purposes" - he was living at Old Shildon
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 MAY 1864
Record Source: living at Old Shildon, near Darlington, he was granted a patent for the invention of "improvements in organs and other wind musical instruments which are played with finger keys"
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT OCT 1866
Record Source: he paid £50 Stamp Duty to extend the patent of his improvements in musical instruments, which he had taken out on 10 October 1863 - he was living at Darlington.
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 APR 1868
Record Source: he filed a Patent for "Improvements in the Means of carrying Railway & Other Tickets, Cards and Labels ready for Exhibition or Delivery" - "this invention consists in a case or frame for the ticket which has an elastic band or other appliance f
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FROM 12 JUN 1868 TO 26 JUN 1868
Record Source: he and his family, of Old Shildon, were included in a List of Visitors who were staying in Satburn, at 16 Ruby Street
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: SEP 1868
Record Source: John Wesley GOUNDRY of Old Shildon gave notice of his intention to proceed with patents for "Improvements in the means of carrying railway and other tickets, cards, and labels, ready for exhibition or delivery".
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1870
Record Source: with Ann GOUNDRY (his mother?) he was a defendant in a Court Case in which the plaintiff was an Edward FORSTER.
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FROM 1870
Record Source: he regularly placed advertisements as an Agent for "£500 Ballotted for on (date) repayable without interest or premiums. Mutual Society, London" - this seems to have been a Draw, where the winners received a 20 year interest-free loan.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 OCT 1870
Record Source: his Patent for "Improvements in Musical Instruments" of 1863 became void "due to the non-payment of the additional Stamp Duty of £100 before the expiration of the seventh year from the date of such Patents"
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1874
Record Source: he played the organ at a concert of sacred music by the Bondgate Wesleyan Chapel Choir, in aid of the Heighington Wesleyan Chapel Building Fund.
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 2 MAY 1877
Record Source: he was accompanist at a performance of Handel's "Messiah" in the Co-operative Hall, Old Shildon.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1879
Record Source: he filed another Patent - "Means for Improving the Intonation of Musical Instruments having the Pianoforte keyboard".
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 FEB 1879
Record Source: the Northern Echo reported that "The Old Shildon Wesleyan Sunday School, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary last August, has been "turned into the street" by the Circuit Ministers, and the Teachers have drawn up a statement of facts, of which ce
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 APR 1884
Record Source: a letter to the Northern Weekly Gazette was sent by a resident of GOUNDRY Houses, Old Shildon
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1886
Record Source: living in 33 Woodbine Road, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: DEC 1887
Record Source: he had a Provisional Patent accepted for ladies' hair pins
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1890
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: NOV 1891
Record Source: he patented "Improvements in keyboard musical instruments"
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 JAN 1892
Record Source: in a speech at The National Society of Professional Musicians, held in Newcastle, the Chairman said "with respect to the application of electricity to organ building, he said they had all heard of Mr. Hope JONES's improvements. It happened that th
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 APR 1893
Record Source: he applied for a patent for oiling waters and signalling for ships at sea.
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 JUN 1895
Record Source: living at 55 Horsford Road, Brixton, Surrey, he sold 10 Queen Street, Old Shildon, which his father had bought on 1 May 1834, and which consisted of a messuage, dwelling-house and outbuildings on a plot 17 feet 6 inches wide and 55 feet 7 inche
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1901 AND 1903
Record Source: he rented out a 3rd floor furnished room at 55 Horsford Road to his son Arthur Charles GOUNDRY.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 8 MAR 1905
Event Place: Lambeth, Surrey
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: 21 DEC 1838
Event Place: Shildon, Co. Durham
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Year: 24 FEB 1839
Event Place: Bishop Auckland Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Co. Durham
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUN 1861
Record Source: he was organist at the Shildon Wesleyan Chapel, and performed in a concert on their recently-built organ
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 OCT 1863
Record Source: he was an amateur inventor, and filed a patent for "Improvements in Musical Instruments", involving a "very elaborate electric system" and an "elaborate arrangement for coupling purposes" - he was living at Old Shildon
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 MAY 1864
Record Source: living at Old Shildon, near Darlington, he was granted a patent for the invention of "improvements in organs and other wind musical instruments which are played with finger keys"
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT OCT 1866
Record Source: he paid £50 Stamp Duty to extend the patent of his improvements in musical instruments, which he had taken out on 10 October 1863 - he was living at Darlington.
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 APR 1868
Record Source: he filed a Patent for "Improvements in the Means of carrying Railway & Other Tickets, Cards and Labels ready for Exhibition or Delivery" - "this invention consists in a case or frame for the ticket which has an elastic band or other appliance f
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FROM 12 JUN 1868 TO 26 JUN 1868
Record Source: he and his family, of Old Shildon, were included in a List of Visitors who were staying in Satburn, at 16 Ruby Street
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: SEP 1868
Record Source: John Wesley GOUNDRY of Old Shildon gave notice of his intention to proceed with patents for "Improvements in the means of carrying railway and other tickets, cards, and labels, ready for exhibition or delivery".
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1870
Record Source: with Ann GOUNDRY (his mother?) he was a defendant in a Court Case in which the plaintiff was an Edward FORSTER.
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FROM 1870
Record Source: he regularly placed advertisements as an Agent for "£500 Ballotted for on (date) repayable without interest or premiums. Mutual Society, London" - this seems to have been a Draw, where the winners received a 20 year interest-free loan.
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 OCT 1870
Record Source: his Patent for "Improvements in Musical Instruments" of 1863 became void "due to the non-payment of the additional Stamp Duty of £100 before the expiration of the seventh year from the date of such Patents"
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: MAY 1874
Record Source: he played the organ at a concert of sacred music by the Bondgate Wesleyan Chapel Choir, in aid of the Heighington Wesleyan Chapel Building Fund.
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 2 MAY 1877
Record Source: he was accompanist at a performance of Handel's "Messiah" in the Co-operative Hall, Old Shildon.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1879
Record Source: he filed another Patent - "Means for Improving the Intonation of Musical Instruments having the Pianoforte keyboard".
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 FEB 1879
Record Source: the Northern Echo reported that "The Old Shildon Wesleyan Sunday School, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary last August, has been "turned into the street" by the Circuit Ministers, and the Teachers have drawn up a statement of facts, of which ce
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 APR 1884
Record Source: a letter to the Northern Weekly Gazette was sent by a resident of GOUNDRY Houses, Old Shildon
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1886
Record Source: living in 33 Woodbine Road, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: DEC 1887
Record Source: he had a Provisional Patent accepted for ladies' hair pins
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1890
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: NOV 1891
Record Source: he patented "Improvements in keyboard musical instruments"
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 JAN 1892
Record Source: in a speech at The National Society of Professional Musicians, held in Newcastle, the Chairman said "with respect to the application of electricity to organ building, he said they had all heard of Mr. Hope JONES's improvements. It happened that th
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 APR 1893
Record Source: he applied for a patent for oiling waters and signalling for ships at sea.
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 JUN 1895
Record Source: living at 55 Horsford Road, Brixton, Surrey, he sold 10 Queen Street, Old Shildon, which his father had bought on 1 May 1834, and which consisted of a messuage, dwelling-house and outbuildings on a plot 17 feet 6 inches wide and 55 feet 7 inche
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1901 AND 1903
Record Source: he rented out a 3rd floor furnished room at 55 Horsford Road to his son Arthur Charles GOUNDRY.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 8 MAR 1905
Event Place: Lambeth, Surrey