Joshua (Joseph) GOUNDRY 1747 – 1830 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 29 FEB 1747/48
Event Place: Smelt House, Howden-le-Wear, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Place: the Darlington Quaker Meeting, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1775
Record Source: he was bequeathed £1-1s-0d. (one guinea) when his father's Will was probated, although his five siblings were each left £20. This was possibly because his father thought Joshua was already well off and did not need to be provided for, but more likely it was because he was out of favour with his father and he could have challenged the Will’s validity if he had been omitted from it altogether.

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET JAN 1776 AND 1789
Record Source: he was Quaker representative for the Auckland Preparative Meeting.

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 3 JUN 1777 AND 18 JAN 1786
Event Place: Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: AUG 1781
Record Source: he was requested by the Quakers to ask his brother John, who had married a non-Quaker, if he had "any remarks to make why a Testament of Denial should not go forth against him". Joshua sent a reply to the next meeting saying that he had spoken to his brother who had nothing to say about the matter

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 4 OCT 1784
Event Place: Woodhamburn House, Aycliffe, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET APR 1786 AND AUG 1789
Record Source: there was a complaint against him by the Quakers for not paying a debt to Sarah OATES (his mother-in-law ?).

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 14 FEB 1788
Event Place: Woodhamburn House, Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: when his wife died.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1789 AND 1806
Record Source: Joshua appears to have had six sons and at least one daughter, probably with Eleanor ?. During this period Joshua would have been aged 42-59, and Eleanor 28-45, so she was of child-bearing age. There is no record of a marriage between them, or of the baptisms of any of the children, but according to later Census records they were all born at Coundon. The fact that they were not baptised as C. of E. indicates that the family were Non-conformists, possibly Methodists - the Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland from at least 1804

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: MAR 1790
Record Source:
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[2] he was disowned by the Quakers for fathering a child to his housekeeper - at the time he was a member of the Auckland Meeting. (The child was possibly George HASTY who was baptised to Ann HASTY at Aycliffe in October 1789, and was the only illegitimate birth recorded at Aycliffe around that time. An Ann HASTY married at Aycliffe on 26 February 1792)
disowned by Quakers for fathering a child to his housekeeper - possibly John, or possibly George Hasty of Aycliffe, bap Oct 1789

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 JUN 1790
Record Source: he witnessed his brother Joseph's Will.

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 23 JUL 1790
Record Source: his brother Joseph died. Some time after this Joshua appears to have started using the name of Joseph - possibly because Joshua was an archaic name with biblical connections and he wanted to dissociate himself from his strict Quaker upbringing. Or maybe it was to keep his brother's name alive. In 1782 he had named one of his own sons Joshua but Joshua jun. later used the name Joseph, possibly following his father's example

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 29 JUL 1791
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 24 SEP 1797
Event Place: Woodhamburn, Aycliffe, Co. Durham
Record Source: when his son Joseph died at Ackworth School. In the Pontefract Monthly Meeting Minutes Joseph was said to be "late of Coundon, near Bishop Auckland".

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1801
Record Source: the population of Coundon was only 163, so it is proable that any residents with the unusual surname of GOUNDRY were related.

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 29 AUG 1804
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham
Record Source: and was a Farmer

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 DEC 1810
Record Source: his son Jacob was baptised two days before his 15th birthday - this suggests he had not been baptised as a baby, probably because his parents were not members of the Church of England. His father was named as Joseph GOUNDRY

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Residence
Event Date: 18 AUG 1814
Event Place: Fatfield, Co. Durham
Record Source: a small village about 25 miles from Coundon - he was described as a Husbandman (ie. a small-time Farmer). His son Jacob is recorded as living there from at least 1817 to 1822

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1821
Record Source: the population of Coundon was 222, comprising 46 families

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 6 JUN 1841
Record Source: no record has been found in the Census of a possible Joshua/Joseph, implying that he had died before then - his probable wife/partner Eleanor was a widow, aged 80, living alone at Church Street, Coundon

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 OCT 1852
Record Source: his probable wife/partner Eleanor's death certificate stated she was the widow of Joseph GOUNDRY, a Labourer

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Death
Event Date: APR 1830
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham
Record Source: his son Henry was living there between 1829 and 1832
Age:
84y

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 14 APR 1830
Event Place: Auckland St. Andrew, Co. Durham