Gunthorpe - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Guntharp family name

johncar18 — 2012-04-26 19:16:11Z

I know this is an old posting, but my family is from Arkansas. Our ancestors were enslaved by the Guntharps in S.C,Georgia and Mississippi. My great-great grandfather Washington Guntharp was born in S.C. around 1835 and died in Forest City, AR in 1923. Any information would be helpful.

John Whitfield

Juliana Gunthorp

mhopkins9 — 2011-08-10 21:12:46Z

I'm looking for the ancestors of Juliana Gunthorp who married John (or Jonathan) Laidman in Holborn, London on 13 July 1797.

The dearth of English references make me think that she may have come from the Antigua Gunthorps, especially as a son of hers was a customs official in Jamaica.

I'd be grateful for any indication, thank you.

Re: GUNTHORPE of London & Antigua

cgpigott — 2011-01-07 06:13:04Z

New information has only very recently been discovered in The National Archives at Kew.

Frances COOKE petitioned King Charles II, ca 1664, for financial relief from her late husband's Irish Estates.

She cited her mariage to John COOKE in 1645, & claimed relief from misery & want for her & her child.

This appears certain to have been Frances COOKE alias CUTLER, & proves that she did not succumb to her consumptive illness before the Restoration.

Indeed, it seems highly likely that Frances went to Antigua, West Indies, taking her daughter Freelove with her (who there met & married her GUNTHORPE husband in ca 1678-79), and herself making two more marriages (to William PROCTOR & then Acquilla STOUGHTON) there before expiring in 1693, leaving two GUNTHORPE & one KERBY grandchildren, & another un-born grandchild which her daughter Frances PIGOTT alias PROCTOR was probably expecting.

Re: GUNTHORPE of London & Antigua

cgpigott — 2010-06-16 04:48:49Z

Same writer, different e-mail address - now at cgpigott@yahoo.com.au
Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W.

GUNTHORPE of London & Antigua

cgpigott — 2008-12-04 01:39:43Z

Seeking information about John GUNTHORPE, Goldsmith of London, 1678, who, in the same year, purchased 500 acres in New North Sound, Antigua.
He was Deputy Provost-Marshall of Antigua, 1680; a Member of the Legislative Assembly there, Jul 1689 to Mar 1691; Member of the Council of War, Aug 1691; again a Member of the Assembly, Mar 1692.

Evidence contained in Vere OLIVER's "History of Antigua," published 1895 (vol.3, p.25) indicates that he was dead before 9 Sep 1693, when Frances STOUGHTON made her will, citing a bequest from Major GUNTHORPE of 20 pounds for mourning, which she then bequeathed to her son-in-law Captain John PIGOTT (husband of her daughter Frances PROCTOR).

Further evidence in OLIVER's "History" (vol.2, p.37)indicates that in 1680, John GUNTHORPE's wife was named Freelove, & that they had a son named Robert GUNTHORPE (all three named in the will of her aunt Elizabeth MASSEY, widow of Robert MASSEY of Northants, made as she set out on a voyage to Antigua).

In a disputation over the ownership of Buck's Plantation in New North Sound Division, Antigua, a claimant in 1687 was Margaret HENDERSON, mother of the infant Charles HENDERSON, who, as nephew of the late Archibald HENDERSON (banished from Antigua in 1674), she claimed as the rightful owner.
In her answers to the Lords Justices, she cited that John GUNTHORPE was the "...son-in-law to that Egregious Traytor John COOKE, Solicitor General to the pretended court of Justice against King Charles the Martyr..."

This clearly suggests that Freelove was the daughter of John COOKE, & who was named in COOKE's entry in D.N.B. as the daughter he wrote to from his condemned cell in 1660.

It remains to be seen whether Frances STOUGHTON (alias PROCTOR), who named two grandsons in her 1693 will as John & William GUNTHORPE, was therefor COOKE's widow, Frances CUTLER, who is said to have died of a consumptive disease in the year or two before COOKE's execution (see Geoffrey ROBERTSON, in his "The Tyrannicide Brief," published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2005).

I believe that John & Freelove's probable son John GUNTHORPE (named in Frances STOUGHTON's 1693 will) was also a member of the Antigua Assembly (1712, 1715), a Member of Council, 1738, Colonel in the Militia, & was buried at St George's, Antigua, 1 Mar 1740, having left issue, among a number of daughters, sons John Jr, William (who inherited Painter's Plantation from his god-father William PAYNTER, as a minor in 1735, & left issue by his wife Elizabeth WATKINS) & George.

Any clarifying information would be greatly appreciated.

Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W. at cgpigott@bigpond.com

GUNTHORP - TURNER

pdturner416 — 2006-11-08 00:44:43Z

Any information appreciated:

William P. Gunthorp married Grace M. Turner, 30 Nov, 1893 in Chicago, Ill
Grace d/o Edwin Turner and Susan M. Lloyd, both of Michigan.
Daughter Pauline Gunthorp; grad of UofIll, 1900 - may have moved to Cinncinati

Thanks in advance

Re: Guntharp of SC

2006-03-21 23:04:56Z

I couldn't find the thread for Nathaniel Ford. I am looking for Thomas N. Guntharp (1822) and is in the 1900 Census with his son John. He married Margaret ?. Both were from South Carolina. He served in the 8th Miss in the War and was in Marshall County Mississippi in the 1880 census. Any other help woud be greatly appreciated. Mavis and Gail Moore

gunthorpe

janethowe77 — 2001-06-29 00:49:34Z

Do you know about Mary Gunthorpe married in 1746 to William Pickworth in England?

Guntharps

2001-03-01 08:23:26Z

Where is SC are you stationed. I live in Darlington and would like to meet you. email- ned.little@pgnmail.com Ned

Guntharp family name

2001-02-28 17:26:23Z

FYI, I belong to the Guntharp line. My family were owned by the Guntharps, sold to the Ford family, but once freed, chosed the Guntharp name! We settled in Baltimore. I'm currently stationed in SC.

Guntharp of SC

2000-01-18 13:03:20Z

I am posting a book written on the family of Nathaniel Ford, 1753-1843, of Chester Co, SC on the Ford message board. It contains considerable information on the Guntharp family. They were know to have spelled their names as Gunthorpe from time to time.