Robert GOUNDRY 1850 – 1908 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: ABT DEC 1850
Event Place: Hunwick, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 30 MAR 1851
Event Place: Hunwick Village, Co. Durham
Record Source: with his mother - they were visiting her father Robert THOMPSON
Age:
4m

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 7 APR 1861
Event Place: Lane Head, Lynesack and Softley, Co. Durham
Record Source: living with his aunts and grandparents
Age:
11y

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 2 APR 1871
Event Place: Lane Head, Lynesack and Softley, Co. Durham
Record Source: where he was a boarder - he was a Coal Miner
Age:
20y

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JAN 1883
Record Source: his wife Mary and baby son William died

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 MAY 1887
Record Source: he was a witness in a case at Staindrop Sessions in which a man was charged with being drunk and disorderly and with assaulting a policeman. GOUNDRY declared that the man was sober and that charge was dismissed but the man was fined £10 with costs on the assault charge. His second cousin John Blackett GOUNDRY gave similar evidence.

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 DEC 1887
Record Source: he was one of several men who appeared at Barnard Castle Police Court on charges of assault and intimidation resulting from the ongoing dispute at Woodland Colliery, where union men were on strike and non-union men were still employed. "It appeared that parties of unionists and non-unionists came upon each other with angry and aggressive results, and some sneaking and cowardly assaults had taken place. Men had rushed at each other in the dark, dealt a blow stealthily, and bolted. Evidence showed also that the coarsest of language had been used". Robert GOUNDRY denied a charge of intimidation. The Chairman of the Bench said "they must inflict such penalties as were calculated to impress and to leave a mark, otherwise these prosecutions would be of no avail whatsoever. It was a pity that money was thus extracted from the miners, when he knew that it could so much more profitably be expended in their families. That, however, the Bench could not help. Penalties amounting in the aggregate to £8-10s. were inflicted, and the additional costs, which were said to be very heavy. - The men pleaded for time to pay the fines and costs, and the court allowed a fortnight's grace, it being understood that if the money was not then paid imprisonment would follow according to the scale laid down"

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 18 SEP 1888
Record Source: 17 charges of assault were heard at Staindrop Police Court, the complainants being non-union men and the defendants union men, or strike-hands at Woodland Colliery. The Chairman of the Bench said "they were extremely sorry to say that it was simply a revival of the old story. They hoped the men would soon be upon good terms. It was really a most dreadful state of affairs. If one man got work through another man being turned out of a place, he could not see why there should be any bad blood going on amongst them. Instead of making the best of the things of this world, they were doing quite the contrary. There were certain men to blame and they were Thomas STEPHENSON, Hugh STEPHENSON, and R. GOUNDRY. It was quite clear that they were the originators of the row, and they would be fined 10s. and costs each. The other cases were dismissed".

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 7 DEC 1889
Record Source: living at Bishop Auckland, he was granted Administration of his father's personal estate.

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 5 APR 1891
Event Place: Cooper House, Woodland, Co. Durham
Record Source: a widower, he and his daughter were lodgers - he was a Coal Miner
Age:
40y

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 DEC 1898
Record Source: at Barnard Castle Police Court, Robert GOUNDRY, of Woodland, was charged with driving a horse and cart without lights "the case being proved by P. C. SMITH. Defendant said he was bringing his cart from the repairer's shop, on the 14th inst., about half-past 7 o'clock. What the officer had said was true. Fined 10s. inclusive"

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 MAR 1901
Event Place: Main Road, Woodland, Co. Durham
Record Source: where he was a lodger - he was a Railway Platelayer

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Death
Event Date: ABT JUL 1908
Event Place: Auckland Registration District, Co. Durham
Record Source: Age:
54y

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 4 JUL 1908
Event Place: Auckland St. Andrew, Co. Durham