===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: MDSTMARY-L@rootsweb.com From: The Goughs <ltcolmichaelj@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] History of James Gough III from the St. Francis Dear List, I believe (with linda's help) that the other Ignatius Gough mentioned below is the son of Peter and Eleanor Bowles Gough. That means he and James III were first cousins. > Nelson County, KY. 8/19/1833: There appeared before a justice of the > peace, Ann Gough Howard, age 90, and Susan Gough Montgomery, age 80, > who swore that they were the sisters of Ignatius Gough and recall that > sometimes in 1776 at the beginning of the War, Ignatius enlisted. > Sometime in Spring of 1778, he returned home sick and had been > discharged. "We recollect that he was frequently called for duties > during the wars afterward." Gough History; Thomas Morton Gough, > September 18, 1969. > > Ignatius P. Gough 1752 - 1835: Born in St. Mary's County, MD. Lived > in Scott County 1810 and Breckinridge County in 1833, Veteran of > Revolutionary War. He had two sister: Ann G. Howard 1743-1835, Susan > G. Montgomery 1753-1840. Married Fanny Combs, Born Maryland. Gough > History; Thomas Morton Gough, September 18, 1969, page 36 > Descendants of Peter Gough > > 1 Peter Gough d: Abt. February 10, 1767 in St. Marys > Co. MD > .. +Eleanor Bould/Bowles > ....... 2 Ignatius Gough b: 1752 in Maryland d: 1835 in > Probably BreckinridgeCo, KY > ........... +Fanny Combs b: in Maryland > ....... 2 Bennett Gough > ....... 2 Elizabeth Gough > ........... +_________ Martindall > ....... 2 Sarah Gough > ....... 2 Mary Gough > ....... 2 Eleanor Gough > ....... 2 Teresia Gough > ....... 2 Keacia Gough > ....... 2 Anne Gough b: 1743 d: Aft. August 19, 1833 > ........... +Thomas Howard d: Abt. July 16, 1810 > ....... 2 Susannah Gough b: 1753 d: Aft. August 19, > 1833 > ........... +Edward Gabriel Montgomery b: 1760 in Maryland > d: May 20, 1833 in Springfield, Washington Co., Kentucky m: > October 12, 1793 in Washington Co., Kentucky Mike The Goughs wrote: > Linda and the List, we tabled the discussion on the James Goughs in > Maryland/Kentucky. I obtained a copy of " That Troublesome Paris", a > history of St. Francis RCC of White Sulphur, ScottCo, KY. It > contained the following information on James and Susannah Medley Gough > and Family. There are baptismal and cemetery records that I'll > transcribe this weekend. > > Mike > >> Back in the days when lay trustees did mental battle for the position >> of "running the church," James Gough (1748-1826) and Jeremiah Tarlton >> (1755-1826) would have probably been the leading contenders. Both >> were wealthy men with important family connections. James Gough was >> related to at least one-third of the members of the St. Francis/St. >> Pius parish, and Jeremiah Tarlton was the richest.7 >> >> Father Badin, an early guest in the home of James Gough, was >> frequently at odds with that eccentric parishioner who must have >> added considerable drama to the Elkhorn frontier country. The date of >> Cough's coming to Kentucky from St. Mary's County is uncertain. He is >> listed as one of the founders of the parish. Goad mentions a 1796 >> migration which involved John, son of Nancy Lynch Price who married >> Gough on January 14, 1797. In early 1797 Gough carried forty-five >> dollars to Baltimore to pay the expense of a clergyman to come to >> serve the parish.48 >> >> James Gough's first wife was a sister to Eleanor Medley, the wife of >> Jeremiah Tarlton. She was Susanna Gough (1746-July 1795), buried >> beside Gough. The two men with their proclivity to contention at one >> time were so at odds with each other that their conflict was the >> subject of ecclesiastical correspondence.49 >> >> The Gough name is important to Kentucky agriculture, as it was a >> Marylander named Gough and a Virginian named Miller who imported the >> first improved English cattle into the Shenandoah Valley. Both >> strains were in Kentucky by 1787; and in 1790 they were bred to >> Matthew Patton's Mars strain. Until 1817, says Thomas D. Clark, all >> improved Kentucky cattle came from the Gough-Miller-Patton stock. >> After the War of 1812, imported English purebreds were mixed with >> this stock, resulting in the famous Kentucky Shorthorn.50 >> >> Of James Gough, Sr., John Price, his stepson, recalled, "He was an >> excellent man and a Catholic, while my mother was an Episcopalian. He >> tried to raise me up in his religion, and my mother, in hers, and >> between the two, be damned if they didn't make me nothing."51 Nancy >> Gough's first husband was Robert Price; her daughter Nancy married >> James, son of Jeremiah and Eleanor Medley Tarlton. Nancy had a >> brother named Barton Lynch. >> >> James Gough's extensive family included John Baptist Gough >> (1775-1839) who married Sarah Jenkins Clarvo, widow of Henry Clarvo; >> James Gough, Jr. (1775-1828), whose wife was Rebecca Ann, who married >> John Manning circa 1793; Ignatius Gough (1785-1825) who left infant >> heirs who were looked after by Henry McAtee and Richard B. Jackson; >> Alluisa Gough, who became the second wife of Bennet Greenwell; Robert >> Gough, executor of the estates of James Gough, Sr., and James Gough, >> Jr.; Juliana Gough who married Robert Hunter first and Henry >> Greenwell second; James H. Gough (born ca. 1800) who married Cordelia >> C. Jenkins before 1834, she being a daughter of Thomas C. and >> Elizabeth Tarlton Jenkins; Elizabeth Ann Gough (1804-1848) who >> married George W. Tarlton, born in 1809 to the Jeremiah Tarltons; >> Cornelius Gough; and possibly others. (Father Badin wrote Bishop >> Carroll on September 12, 1809 that John Manning was a son-in-law of >> James Gough, they along with John B. Gough being "malcontents.") >> >> There were two Ignatius Goughs active in the congregation: one, the >> son of James Gough, Sr., and the other a veteran of the Revolutionary >> War and possibly a brother of James Gough, Sr. It was this latter >> Ignatius Gough who provided a farm for the Sisters of Charity of >> Nazareth St. Catherine's Academy. James Gough, Sr. and Ignatius Gough >> signed the 1806 petition for a pastor; and James, Cornelius, and >> Ignatius Gough contributed toward the Dominican college. >> >> James Gough, Sr.'s, lands initially lay within the much disputed land >> grants of Terrell and Hawkins and John C. Owings, which those parties >> had acquired from Hugh and William Alexander and John Smith. This >> land lay south of Ironworks Pike and west of the Midway-Versailles >> Pike. In 1825 he deeded 171 acres of this to John B. Gough and >> another tract lying north of Ironworks and extending east and north >> of the parish farm to Anderson Harper. IN 1836 his other lands were >> deeded to Robert and Ann Thomason (seventy acres), Barnaby Worland >> (twenty acres), and John Branham (seventy acres). >> >> John Baptist Gough's will was probated in July 1839. Notes were help >> on Benedict and James R. Gough, Buford Craig, James Combs, John >> Thomason, and William N. Thomason. George Allgaier and James R. >> Gough were the executors.54 >> >> The last of the Goughs bearing the name who in the St. Francis/St. >> Pius cemetery were James, James, Jr., in 1828, and John Baptist >> Gough, 1839. >> >> B.L. Gough, who died in 1876, was of the tailor - merchant trade. His >> estate sale in Will Book R takes up fifteen and one-third pages with >> proceeds of only $682.87. >> > -- Michael J. Gough ltcolmichaelj@bellsouth.net ===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: MDSTMARY-L@rootsweb.com From: The Goughs <ltcolmichaelj@bellsouth.net> Subject: Need to check all my notes. Fannie Combs didn't marry this Ignatius Need to check all my notes. Fannie Combs didn't marry this Ignatius Gough: > You're way off on this one, Mike. > Frances "Fanny" S. Combs, dau. of Lewis Cornelius Combs and Mary > Elizabeth Coad, wasn't born until 1860 (in St. Mary's Co.); she was > living as late as 1938. She was the second wife of Ignatius Pike > Gough (1849-1920), son of Charles Edwin Gough and Martha E. Rice. > They never went to Kentucky. Linda Reno