William GOUNDRY 1792 – 1860 – Genealogical Records

Sources

Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: ABT 1792
Event Place: Barton, Yorkshire (North Riding)

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 2 SEP 1792
Event Place: St. Mary's, Barton, Yorkshire (North Riding)

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 1818
Event Place: Brough, Westmoreland

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 1828
Event Place: Brough, Westmoreland

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1829 AND 1860
Event Place: Brough-under-Stainmore, Westmoreland

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 1830 AND 1834
Record Source: he was in business in Brough

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: AUG 1840
Record Source: "Wm. GOUNDRY, Merchant, Market-Brough was one of the gentlemen who were sworn onto the special jury at Westmoreland Summer Assizes Crown Court at Appleby, in a Special Jury Case re. The Kendal Market Tolls, THOMPSON v. GIBSON and COMPSTON"

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JUN 1841
Record Source: he signed a petition for the repeal of the Corn Laws, (which imposed steep import duties on all imported grain, causing a political issue between landowners, a long-established class who were heavily represented in Parliament, and the new class of manufacturers and industrialists, who were not. The former desired to maximise their profits from agriculture by keeping the price at which they could sell their grain high. The latter wished to maximise their profits from manufacture by reducing the wages they paid to their factory workers - the difficulty being that men could not work in the factories if a factory wage was not enough to feed them and their families, so in practice, high grain prices kept factory wages high also).

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 6 JUN 1841
Event Place: Market Brough, Westmoreland
Record Source: living alone. (In the 1851 Census, Isabella GOUNDRY, born c.1822-1826 was living at Middleton Tyas with William's brother Oliver, and described as Oliver's niece - her birthplace was given as Brough, but it is not known if she was William's daughter. When she married in 1858 her father's name was not stated).
Age:
> 45y

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 12 APR 1843
Record Source: he was assessed for approx. three acres of land, a house and garden which he owned and occupied in the parish of Hillbeck, Westmoreland, whichwas in the parish of Brough

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 10 AUG 1846
Record Source: he was a juror in a case tried at Westmoreland Summer Assizes - he was a Wine Merchant at Market Brough

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 1849
Event Place: Brough (East Ward), Westmoreland

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JAN 1849
Record Source: the East India Tea Company advertised that due to numerous recent convictions it was clear that adulteration to an enormous extent was still going on and in order to protect the public from fraud, and, at the same time to offer them every facility for buying their Teas and Coffees as advantageously as in London, the East India Tea Company they were increasing the number of their Provincial Depots, & Retail Establishments in the Country, including William GOUNDRY, Wine Merchant of Brough

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 30 MAR 1851
Event Place: High Street, Brough, Westmoreland
Record Source: unmarried, he had a visitor (Christopher DOBSON, aged 10, born Brough) - William was described as a Spirit Merchant etc.

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 27 AUG 1856
Record Source: living at Brough, at the Annual Show of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Agricultural Society he won £1 and 2nd prizes in the class for a two year old filly suitable for harness - it had been bred by him.

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 11 JAN 1860
Record Source: a Coroner's inquest heard that he died suddenly on Monday evening, the 9th inst. Evidence was given that he had gone into a neighbouring house (Mrs. Mary DOBSON's) on Monday evening, and immediately after taking a chair by the fire "he complained of not being well, and sweating very much, he thought he would be obliged to go home again, on which Mrs. DOBSON told him she would prepare him a cup of tea, and he should not stir till he got it; however, he immediately shrunk from his chair, and was picked up in a state of insensibility. A neighbour, Mr. Jos. BALMER, of Brough, and Dr. DALSTON was immediately called in, but before their arrival, the vital spark had fled. Deceased was never known to have complained of any illness previous; he has been an inhabitant of Brough, for upwards of forty years, and was generally respected. Verdict - "Died by the visitation of God.""

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 9 JAN 1860
Event Place: Brough, Westmoreland
Record Source: described as a bachelor, living at Brough.
Age:
66y

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 19 APR 1860
Event Place: the Principal Registry
Record Source: he was a bachelor, and a Spirit Merchant & Tea Dealer, of Brough. Administration was granted to his brother Oliver GOUNDRY, one of his next-of-kin, his effects were under £100.