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Jasper GUNN - His ENGLISH origin!

These e-mails were from the Clann GUNN Discussion Area - Bookmark: 
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This data from various contributors.  
Compiled here by Gloria Odom for personal research.

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Jasper GUNN - Scottish or English?
by Gloria ODOM, 11/11/97

I am currently trying to prove my descendancy from Jasper GUNN of Milford, CT 
and have my lineage posted at: 

http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Meadows/7937/gunn_lineage.htm 

I am looking for PROOF of origin for Jasper - is he Scottish or English? Also am 
interested in meeting other descendants of Jasper GUNN. There is a Jasper 
GUNN descendant compiling a record of Jasper's descendants - if you have 
interest in contributing your lineage, why not contact me?   

For current e-mail check my home page  New England Families Rendezvous 
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Jasper Descendant
by Lief Noll, 11/23/97

I am a Jasper descendant via Elijah Gunn, who was among the first white settlers of 
what is now Cleveland, OH. I have traced my line very accurately back to Elijah, 
and from Jasper forward to one of two Hatfield/Montague, MA area families from 
whom Elijah might have come. I believe Elijah to be the son of John, who was a 
great-grandson of Jasper. 

I have some info about the Ohio Gunns, and would love to exchange information with 
others who are tracing this branch of the family tree. I'd be happy to share what I have 
learned with anyone who's interested. 

I, too, am stumped about the origin of Jasper. There is some speculation that his father 
was named Henry, but I've not seen any evidence of this. 

lnoll@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
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Jasper Gunn Descendant Too
by Garry Bryant, Clan Gunn member, 11/30/97

In 1989, the Gunn Salute, newsletter of the Clan Gunn Society of North America, 
had an article by Lois Chase Milne who is also a descendant. I wrote to her and 
at length she sent to me her research findings. She states that Jasper's christening 
has been found, located at Great Burstead, England, dated 9 August 1607. He was 
the fifth of six children, the only boy. His parents were Henry Gunne and wife Sarah. 
The clue to this was a child that sailed on their ship "The Defence," in 1635, named
Phebe Maulder. Phebe's christening record is also located in the same parish. 
However Milne does believe the Gunnes were a few generations removed from 
Scotland, where many Jasper Gunns are found in records of this time period.

Also try the books, Ancient Families of New Haven, by Donald Lines Jacobus; 
Families of Early Milford, CT., by Susan Woodruff Abbott; and Medical Men of 
Milford, by Morris Abbott. I descend through Jasper's son Jobamah Gunn and 
Sarah Lane. Good Luck!
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Thanks, Garry
by Lief Noll, Clan Gunn (No. Amer.) Member, 12/1/97

Thanks for this wonderful info! Have you discovered where Great Burstead is? 
I can't find it in any of my atlases. I imagine the town may have been absorbed 
or otherwise disappeared in the intervening four hundred years. 

lnoll@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
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More on Jasper Gunn
by Richard N. Platt, Jr., Milford, CT, 1/19/98

I'm a Jasper Gunn descendant, still living in Milford, CT. There still are several of us 
here, but only  one family with the Gunn surname. The oldest member of this family, 
Robert Clifton Gunn, Sr. died 2 January 1998 at age 90. 

I, too, have heard that Jasper Gunn came from Great Burstead. It's in Essex, just 
south of Billericay. I found this information in the IGI at the local Mormon Family 
History Center. I have not found out where this information came from. The parish 
register for Great Burstead is not available on microfilm, at least not the last time 
I looked. The person at the FHC said that probably it was too fragile to microfilm.

A large number of the original settlers of Milford in 1639 came from Hertfordshire, 
Essex, and nearby areas. My namesake, Richard Platt, came from Ware, others 
came from such places as Stanstead Mountfichet, Nazeing, Epping, and Much 
Hadham. In looking at microfilms of the parish registers of these towns, I find 
Gunns all through this area, and it's not hard to understand how Jasper Gunn 
could have been part of the group. There is a Thomas Gunne on the same page 
with Richard Platt's baptismal record in Ware (1604). It's my understanding that the 
Clan Gunn genealogist in Scotland, Dr. Colin Gunn, is of the belief that the Gunns of 
this part of England are descended from Vikings who settled in the Danelaw, and 
never were in Scotland at all. This sounds possible to me. 

Richard N. Platt, Jr. Clan Gunn Deputy Commissioner for Connecticut
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