Are there any gravestones or tombs with inscriptions to the Gaunt family of Summer Hill, Quarnford in the 18th century? I visited Flash last Saturday and checked gravestones around the church. I did not have time to look at all of the stones & tombs because there are so many.
I am particularly interested in Sarah Gaunt who was buried 26 February 1782. If there is a memorial to her, what age is given and does it give her relationship to other members of the Gaunt family i.e John buried 20 June 1792 and Josiah buried 6 May 1822?
In the book "Flash Back Two" by Margaret Parker there is a list of Monumental Inscriptions at St.Paul`s Quarnford but there are no Gaunts in the index of it. The following are from a copy of the Quarnford Parish Register transcribed by Margaret Parker
Children of Josiah Gaunt & Ellen Gaunt of Gambells Green Bapt. Oct.1761John Gaunt Bapt. Feb.1764 Sarah Gaunt Buried Feb.1782 Bapt. Oct.1765 Richard Gaunt Bapt. Apr. 1767 Josiah Gaunt Bapt. March 1769 James Gaunt Buried Nov. 1799 living at Summer Hill Bapt. Dec.1770 Mary & or Martha Gaunt Bapt. May 1773 Betty Gaunt Bapt. May 1777 Darby Gaunt Buried Apr. 1787 Hellen Gaunt of Gamballs Green Buried May 1822 aged 92 Josiah Gaunt living at Summer Hill
appointed June 1764 Mr. John Gaunt of Summer Hill Church Warden Children of John Gaunt & Ann Gaunt of Summer Hill Bapt. Aug. 1766 Prudence Gaunt Buried Aug. 1776 Bapt. March 1770 Son of Buried Jun. 1792 John Gaunt of Summer Hill
Josiah Gaunt & Elizabeth Gaunt of Dove Head Bapt. Apr. 1791 Elizabeth Gaunt
John Moss & Mary Moss of Dove Head Bapt. Dec.1833 Elizabeth Gaunt Moss Buried Jan.1834
I have recently finished transcribing the Quarnford parish registers for the Staffordshire Parish Registers Society, but I don't know how long it will be before they are published. I was not aware that the the registers had already been transcribed, and I am sure no-one at the SPRS knew this when they asked me to take on this project. Has Margaret Parker's transcription been published?
I don't have any family connection with Flash/Quarnford, but when I saw the Gaunt entries I realised that they are related to Gaunts in Milwich who are connected to my tree via two marriages to members of the Knight family of Milwich. It seems they are also connected with Gaunts of Rowley Regis and other places. I hoped to find information about Sarah Gaunt who was buried in 1782 aged 90 who I thought might be the mother of Josiah and John, but I see this burial has been connected in your list to Sarah baptised in 1764. This cannot be correct in view of her age.
Thanks Rex, that agrees with my transcription, except for the omission of her age from the transcript you have, and I hoped that would have been verified if she had a gravestone.
My next step will be to check if there are any wills for the Gaunt family.
National Burial Records and indeed the burial image in 1782 shows Sarah's age as 90. This equates with her being Sarah Darby who married John Gaunt in Rowley Regis in 1713-14.
John (Sarah's husband) was born 1670 in Rowley Regis, but I have no burial for him ((either on the professional tree I have inherited from 1914 or on parish records). I had added a date of 1739 to my tree, but stupidly I didn't make a note of where I found that! He was in certainly in Summerhill by the time, but ofcourse may not have died there. He was father of John (1721-1793) and Josiah (1732- 1822) - 'the button men' - and of course he's also the father of James Darby Gaunt whose line goes down through (among others the Knight sister of Milwich) I'm wondering about extending my search for John's burial as there are a few in other parts of the country; if he had been away from home, it's unlikely his body would have been returned to Summerhill
