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GASTON C David 1937 2001 married 31 Jul 1956

t42PilotGrove_GraysonCoTX — 2009-10-22 12:27:26Z

GASTON C David 1937 2001 married 31 Jul 1956

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GASTON Margaret 1939 2005 married 31 Jul 1956

t42PilotGrove_GraysonCoTX — 2009-10-22 12:27:12Z

GASTON Margaret 1939 2005 married 31 Jul 1956

DaveStrickland photographed this gravestone in the Pilot Grove Cemetery, Grayson Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 208,545 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Stephen L and Willie Mae

t42MountOlivet — 2009-10-03 20:52:33Z

GASTON Stephen L and Willie Mae

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GASTON Gary J R 1949-1988

t42MountOlivet — 2009-09-13 19:04:53Z

GASTON Gary J R 1949-1988

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GASTON J Alden and Irene T

t42MountOlivet — 2009-08-31 12:39:02Z

GASTON J Alden and Irene T

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GASTON Hattie CHESTNUT 1883-1965

t42MountOlivet — 2009-07-06 20:37:42Z

GASTON Hattie CHESTNUT 1883-1965

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GASTON Cecil Arnold and Jessie Lou

t42MountOlivet — 2009-07-04 19:39:21Z

GASTON Cecil Arnold and Jessie Lou

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Re: GASTON SEARCH

mkomperda — 2009-06-10 22:43:12Z

Oklahoma, But later Eddie H. Moved to California and is deceased.

Re: re: Eddie H Gaston

mkomperda — 2009-06-10 22:41:39Z

Thank you so much. This answers so many questions for me. I would also like to share information. My e-mail is mkomperda@yahoo.com. However I am going out of town for a week and will be unable to respond at this time.

Thank you again,

Tell your wife Hello from a distant cousin. I am a daughter to Eddie Gaston.

Re: re: Eddie H Gaston

J_Rennert — 2009-06-10 20:02:12Z

Eddie Howard Gaston was born in Oklahoma. He was the son of Charles and Ola (Miller) Gaston. He had an older brother named Charles Edward.

Ola Lee Miller was the sister of my wife's grandmother. Their parents were Joseph and Laura (Titus) Miller. Descendants of Joseph and Laura are having a Miller family reunion July 31 in Dodge City, Kansas,

Charles "Charlie" Gaston's parents were Fred Randolph and Susann (Sheward) Gaston.

Would like to share information.

John Rennert

Re: Australian Gastons

megdavidson14 — 2009-05-15 06:53:10Z

ok hear from you when you get back have a nice time

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-05-14 21:56:47Z

Hello Meg,

I forgot to let you know i will be away for a week from tomorrow. Going to Longreach with friends from Brisbane.

Ailsa

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-05-13 03:24:09Z

Hello Meg,

Sounds like a good idea. Looks like you live in Brisbane.

My phone no is 07 4123 2830.

Bye for now Ailsa

Re: GASTONs in Co. Antrim Ireland

watso39 — 2009-05-12 13:14:39Z

Hi Sue,

I don't know if I already answered this as I was getting ready to go to Scotland, etc from the USA.
I have quite a bit of information, but most of it is
on the Samuel Gaston side. If you respond, my E-mail address is JoysRacket@aol.com It said Watso39, but we share the ancestry.com site.

Hope to hear from you,
Joy DeSantis

Re: Australian Gastons

megdavidson14 — 2009-05-12 06:56:50Z

hi ailsa sorry i have been so long i am sooo busy at work lately if you like i could ring you and have a better chat my number is 38885448

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-05-10 07:32:36Z

Hello Meg,

Is the cemetery in Ballymena close to the town?

Bye for now Ailsa

Re: TRUSVAN CHIEVES GASTON

bgaston1 — 2009-04-26 16:00:21Z

Not sure how much you'll learn but you could take a look at my list and start from that: http://home.mindspring.com/~bgaston2

I'm not through that generation so the information is that which I've put together from the Web. Good luck in your research.

Re: TRUSVAN CHIEVES GASTON

ryanrosene — 2009-04-25 22:50:55Z

Thank you for the reply. But from my understanding of the info I have had access to here is my line from John Justice Gaston: J.J. Gaston (b. 1703, d. 1782), William [brother of Joseph] (b. 1743, d. 1814), William Porter (b. 1797, d. 1821), Trusvan Chieves (b. 1818, d. 1888), William Harper (1853, d. 1921), Langdon Lee [my gggrandfather] (b. 1891, d. 1961), Clara Evelyn Gaston Pifer [my ggrandmother] (b. 1919, d. 1994). Sorry for any confusing info.

Re: TRUSVAN CHIEVES GASTON

Joyce_Reece — 2009-04-25 19:33:04Z

I do believe this would be the lineage of Joseph Gaston and Jane Brown. The youngest son of Justice John Gaston and Esther Waugh of Chester Dist. SC. Joseph was a surviving son of the Rev. War Three of his brothers died at Hanging Rock. Look for a book by Chalmers Davidson.

Rev. Hugh's portrait

gastcra — 2009-04-04 14:44:15Z

My cousin and I remember reading somewhere that a portrait of Rev. Hugh Gaston (brother of Justice John) was supposedly sent to some US descendants because his line had died out in Antrim. Does anyone recall having heard of this before?

This is of particular signficance to us because our grandfather was born in Antrim and our family tradition says we descend from Rev. Hugh. We are exploring a possible missing link between Rev. Hugh and our earliest known ancestor, Peter Gaston, bc 1790, Ballywillan.

Craig Gaston

P.S. Join our DNA project and help to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of the Gaston history.

Rev. Hugh Gaston

gastcra — 2009-03-25 00:35:49Z

I am looking for living descendants of Rev. Hugh Gaston, bc 1721 in Ballymena, m. Mary Thompson, c 1747, d. 1766 in Fishing Creek SC.

Craig Gaston

Re: Where do the Ulster Gastons originate?

gastcra — 2009-03-01 14:07:59Z

I should have added that the previous posting was a message sent to our Gaston DNA project members and our Family Tree DNA site is not accessible to all of you. If you would like more information on this project or you are considering joining us, don't hesitate to ask me for details. Our DNA project now has 16 members, of which 4 live in France.

The results are so far inconclusive about our ultimate origins, but with more members and further developments in the science we hope to discover more about our fascinating past. With every new member we are also discovering more about our recent history, helping to confirm or refute what we know about our own personal pedigrees.

Where do the Ulster Gastons originate?

gastcra — 2009-03-01 13:34:45Z

I keep hesitating to send messages to all members of our Gaston DNA project because there are always pending results from Family Tree DNA that will most definitely resolve all our questions when they arrive. Alas, when the results do come in they invariably make our family history appear even more complex than before. I began this project with the unreasonable belief that there was a single Gaston lineage and this been proven false three times. We now have four distinct lineages and there are undoubtedly more. We also know that unrelated people chose the same surname back at the time when authorities required people to be identified by two names rather than one. The question still remains as to whether we "Ulster" Gastons - those of us in Lineage 1 who descend from a 17th century Irish patriarch - can trace our history back to France. Or more specifically, whether our Irish patriarch was really the son or grandson of a Jean Gaston who left France in the early 1600s for Scotland. The so-called "paper trail" leading us back in time ends abruptly circa 1660; prior to that, all we have our legend, some scattered hints ... and our DNA.

So what does the DNA says so far? Any of you in Lineage 1 can see on your FTDNA page that your closest matches are other Gastons. But beyond those you see names that have a distinct Anglo-Saxon or Celtic flavour. Of course, we know that the FTDNA database is highly biased towards descendants from the UK, so this is not surprising. There are only about 2,400 males who list their ancestral country as France compared to over 44,000 who list England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales or UK. But there are other DNA markers that one can use to shed light on this question. I have ordered a sub-clade test that refines my haplogroup. Let me explain. All males have been classified into haplogroups based on their DNA. Most of us Gastons fall into the group R1b1b2, although Germain Gaston is in the E group and Jean-Marc is in J. (These are interesting stories in themselves, that we can discuss another time). The R1b1b2 haplgroup is pervasive in Western Europe and it is thought to have originated during the last ice age, when our Palaeolithic ancestors retreated south to the Iberian peninsula in order to survive. Read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R1b. Genetic genealogy is an evolving science and as more DNA samples become available, new markers are discovered that help to further refine these haplogroups. The haplogroup tree - or haplotree - is just like our family pedigrees, with branches and sub-branches. These are referred to as "sub-clades". If you access your FTDNA page, you can click on the Haplotree menu item under Y-DNA to see where we are situated in the R branch. You will note that each branching is defined by what they call a "SNP". For example, R1b1b2 is defined by the SNP M73. I have been tested for other SNPs and I am positive for L21. In other words, I am in the haplogroup sub-clade R1b1b2a1b6 but I am sure you will agree that it is easier to refer to it simply as L21. It is very likely that all the "Ulster" Gastons are in this same haplogroup. L21 is thought to have originated about 3.500 years ago, plus or minus 1,000 years.

Enough of these strange codes. What does it all mean? Well, I wish I could tell you. It is believed that L21 is Celtic. (Here is a rather readable site giving some background http://britam.org/DNA/BAMAD44.html#Is). So, does this mean that our legend is wrong and that our ancestors wore kilts? A few of us have been debating this question for the last month and we came to the firm conclusion that we can't tell. Although we may well be Celts, we could have been Bretons, the branch of Celts who boast Asterix as their hero. How does this fit in with our Jean Gaston legend? There are many possibilities but one hypothesis is that an early Irish ancestor emigrated to France many centuries ago and one of his descendants was our Jean Gaston who went to Scotland. Or, perhaps Jean Gaston came from a long line of Bretons going back to the time of L21. He or one of his descendants may have spread the Gaston DNA in Ireland and Scotland, which could explain our matches to people who wore kilts.

Craig Gaston
Gaston DNA project administrator

Re: Australian Gastons

peterdempster924 — 2009-04-06 14:28:36Z

hi, ailsa have found david on the 1901 census yet , or the camerons headstones yet, peter

Re: Australian Gastons

peterdempster924 — 2009-03-18 13:29:18Z

hi, ailsa thats good, do you know the dates william and margaret died,and have you found their graves yet, and do you know if they where on the 1901 census, peter

Re: My Gaston Ancestry - SC 1818 - KY 1927 - John Gaston

jolacaja — 2009-03-06 05:29:12Z

Thanks so much for your prompt response. I know many people have cited this marriage but as hard as I try I can't find evidence of a James McCreary in Chester Co. SC (other than a very early plat for land not granted).

I'll keep trying to sort out the mystery.

Thanks again.

Laurie

Re: My Gaston Ancestry - SC 1818 - KY 1927 - John Gaston

jolacaja — 2009-03-05 22:42:48Z

Hello,

I notice in your post you show Margaret Gaston married James McCreary of Chester Co. SC. I am looking for documented proof of this marriage. Can you tell me the document you consulted for proof?

I appreciate your consideration.

Laurie McCreary-Burke

GASTON baby 1912

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-05 20:22:47Z

GASTON baby 1912

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 201,398 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Don 1935 2005 son

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 12:00:14Z

GASTON Don 1935 2005 son

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON William S 1882 1960 father

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:51:34Z

GASTON William S 1882 1960 father

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Effie May 1882 1932 mother

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:51:24Z

GASTON Effie May 1882 1932 mother

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON W D Doug 1909 1994 father

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:51:15Z

GASTON W D Doug 1909 1994 father

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Lena L 1910 1986 mother

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:51:05Z

GASTON Lena L 1910 1986 mother

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Clifton Morris 1907 1996 father

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:50:55Z

GASTON Clifton Morris 1907 1996 father

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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GASTON Nellie Pauline 1902 1982 mother

t42OldHall_DenCoTX — 2009-03-23 11:50:30Z

GASTON Nellie Pauline 1902 1982 mother

David Strickland photographed this gravestone in the Old Hall Cemetery, Lewisville, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

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Re: Family Crest

btb04 — 2009-02-26 22:50:31Z

The Gastons who came to America were not armigerous - no coat of arms if you are tracing a line that has William and Mary Olivet Lemon, and their son Robert (b 1720 d before 9May1787)who lived in Lynches Creek, Lancaster Co., SC or any other children who immigrated from Ireland. The coats of arms you find on the net are mostly wishful thinking; if Huguenots were persecuted by the King of France, why would any Gaston be granted a coat of arms after that time? The stories and history of our ancestors is more interesting. Lots of good stuff about Gastons in the Revolutionary War and Gastons in SC. I traced my line to IL. Good luck.

Re: Australian Gastons

JoyEDeSantis — 2009-02-26 04:28:21Z

Hi Ailsa,
Read the query, Robert Gaston and Martha Ann (Mattie) Gaston
are the parents of John Gaston B. 1853 or 1854. And I have that he had 2 sisters and one brother.
I have a tremendous amount of information on the Gaston side of the family. My g-grandparents were John Adams married to Jane Gaston, sister of Martha Ann above.
I don't have a lot on Cameron. I will be going to Ireland
in May to do more genealogy. We are definitely cousins.
And a lot of them went to Detroit. My grandfather James Adams immigrated to Detroit and a lot more of his family.
I recently met a second cousin in Detroit, who I had been trying for 4 years to get a correct address for him.
My E-mail address is JoysRacket@aol.com
Hope to hear from you, I think we can exchange a lot of
information.
Best to you,
Joy

Re: TRUSVAN CHIEVES GASTON

ryanrosene — 2009-04-25 19:03:17Z

Trusvan Chieves Gaston, b. 4 Nov 1885 d. 16 Dec 1955, was the brother of my gggrandfather Langdon Lee Gaston. I am very interested to learn all I can about the Gastons from Limestone Co. AL. Please feel free to contact me.

Any Info on Langdon Lee Gaston from Alabama

ryanrosene — 2009-04-10 16:42:22Z

I any searching for any potentially helpful information on a Langdon Lee Gaston, born in Alabama, married to Willie Mae Wise. These are my great-great-grandparents. Thank you.

Re: Australian Gastons

megdavidson14 — 2009-04-06 05:28:41Z

hi Ailsa have just logged into this site maybe we could swap some info john gaston husband of margaret ann mcameron is the brother of my greatgrandfather samuel gaston. i was in ballymena 2 years ago and visited the local cemetary maybe i could head you in the right direction meg

Alabama Gastons

bgaston1 — 2009-04-11 13:05:35Z

Check -- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Re: Australian Gastons

bgaston1 — 2009-02-22 14:26:27Z

'owdy and thank you.

What you saw is all I have.

Contributions are welcome and I hope others who access the web site find something which whets their appetite to further expand out Gaston web databases so everyone can enjoy genealogy.

Bill Gaston
Austin, TX

Just a suggestion for what it's worth

bgaston1 — 2009-03-06 18:02:10Z

Your query to a very old message may not get a responce from the original poster and the only suggestion I have is to copy your family names, if those or "family" names, into the search box for Gastons and see what comes up.

Good luck.

Bill Gaston
Austin, TX

Re: Family Crest

bgaston1 — 2009-02-20 15:04:31Z

Information at the following post is my opinion too:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/gaston/messages/710.html

Re: My Gaston Ancestry - SC 1818 - KY 1927 - John Gaston

Constance_Leaman — 2009-03-06 00:09:46Z

I'm sorry, I don't have any documents but I have a reference to Max Perry's The American Descendants of John "Jean" Gaston, page 10, and Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina, page 196.

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-02-22 05:42:19Z

Hello Bill,
Thank you for sending the information about John Gaston b 1853. I was able to fill in some blank spaces for my family tree.
Margaret Gaston nee Cameron died 17 August 1887 aged 38 yrs
at Drummaul,Antrim.
John Gaston born 1880 is my grandfather.
I would like to know more about His sister Margaret Jane Gaston who married Robert K. Craig 1906 and went to live in Detroit, USA.

I enjoyed looking at your web site.

Bye for now Ailsa

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-02-22 05:24:18Z

Hi Peter,
Thanks you very much for sending information about William Cameron.

When Margaret Ann Gaston nee Cameron died 17 August 1887 at Drummaul, Antrim her sister Lizzie Cameron was with her. Margaret died of Phthisis aged 38yrs. I was able to send for the certificate through the Family Heritage rooms at Hervey Bay.
She is most likely buried in the Ballymena Cemetery.

Could you send me the site for the Irish Census please.

Bye for now Ailsa

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-04-17 01:02:34Z

Hello Meg,

Great to hear from you.

Yes i am trying to find where the cemetery is in Balymena.
I have finally received the death certificate of Margaret A. Gaston ( Cameron), and wondered if there are headstones for Gaston Relatives there.

I would love to visit Ballymena and surrounding area.

Hoping to hear from you soon and to swap info about John, Sam and Joseph Gaston.

Ailsa

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-03-18 02:46:18Z

Hello Peter,

The Family History Society has given me the
site for the 1911 Irish Census and i was able to find William Cameron at 13 Ballymoney St. Ballymena on the census which i am able to download at home at no cost.

Couldn't find his father David so i guess he died before 1911.

Ailsa

Re: Australian Gastons

adlove39 — 2009-03-19 01:34:08Z

Hi,
No i don't know how to find the graves or the headstones in Balymena.

I am hoping to find more about the 1901 census.

The only death i have is for Margaret Ann Gaston nee Cameron born ab. 1849 and died 17-8-1887 in Balymena.

Her sister Lizzie Cameron was the informant of her death.

On the 1911 census, William Cameron & wife Maggie had 5 children.

Ailsa