Joseph GOUNDRY 1741 – 1790 – Genealogical Records

Sources

Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 15 JUN 1741
Event Place: Smelt House, Howden-le-Wear, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 15 JUN 1741
Event Place: Raby Quaker Monthly Meeting, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JUN 1767
Record Source: a newspaper advertised "To be Sold . . . . .a Freehold Farm called Copley, in the Parish of Hamsterley, in the County of Durham, with a new built Farm House, and good Conveniences, lett to Joseph GOUNDRY"

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 3 JAN 1769 AND JUL 1774
Record Source: he occasionally represented the Auckland Meeting at other Quaker Meetings

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1775
Record Source: he was bequeathed £20 when his father's Will was probated

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: DEC 1775
Record Source: a charge was laid against him by the Quakers that he had been "concerned with a young woman and that she is now with child by him, which he denies"

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 25 JUN 1776
Record Source: he was disowned by Raby/Staindrop Quakers for fathering an illegitimate child (Joseph, the son of Barbary DONKIN of Eldon, baptised 10 Apr 1776 at Auckland St. Andrew)

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 JUN 1777
Record Source: he was a witness at the marriage of his brother Joshua GOUNDRY

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 1779
Event Place: Eldon, Co. Durham
Record Source: was sponsor of the Marriage Bond of Joseph MEGSON and Elizabeth CHIPCHES.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1779 AND 1790

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET OCT 1782 AND AUG 1783
Record Source: the Manour or Lordship of Eldon, comprising 1370 acres, tenanted by him and ten others was advertised For Sale. It said there was "Plenty of Coal and Lime-Stone in the Estate, which adjoins the Turnpike Road leading from Kirkmerrington to Heighington".

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1785 AND 1790

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 13 DEC 1788
Record Source: in a newspaper advertisement he offered a reward of five guineas (= to more than £500 now) for information about the theft of a three-year-old bay horse which had been stolen from his stable at Aycliff, High Rushyford

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Will
Event Date: 3 JUN 1790
Event Place: Great Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: - he was described as a Yeoman, the witnesses were his brother Joshua GOUNDRY and William THOMPSON

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 JUN 1790
Record Source: living at Great Aycliffe, as Freeholder of a house in Darlington which was occupied by William KING, he was qualified to vote in an election for Members of Parliament to represent the County Palatine of Durham, and voted for Sir John EDEN, of Windleston, Baronet, who failed to be elected.

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 23 JUL 1790
Event Place: Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: Age:
48y

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 25 JUL 1790
Event Place: the Quaker Burying Ground, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: MAY 1794
Event Place: York
Record Source: almost four years after his death - possibly to establish that Joseph DONKIN was his child. He named his brother John, Innkeeper, of West Auckland, and George COATES the younger, Gentleman, of Smelt House as his Executors and Trustees. He left "Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and premises" at Dyke House, Grunton, Yorkshire (North Riding) to be sold by his trustees and the proceeds invested for the support of his wife and her assigns. After her decease the money was to be put "towards the maintenance and education and support and bringing up all and every of my Child or Children" until they reached the age of 21 - as the children were not named this suggests that he had an illegitimate child/children. He also owned property at Darlington which was to be mortgaged if there were insufficient proceeds from the sale of his other property etc. to pay off his debts. He left his plate, linen and household furniture to his wife, and the remainder of his personal estate to his Executors