Emmanuel and Ann Aston
Family of Emmanuel Aston & Ann Gwynn, 1844 (1822-1898)
Residence: Gloucestershire, England; Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Mason County, West Virginia
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Parents' Childhood
Emmanuel Aston was born in 1822 to Emanuel and Elizabeth Aston in West Dean, Gloucestershire, England.
Ann Gwynn was born in 1823 to James and Decima Gwynn in Newland, Gloucestershire, England.
Life in England
| 1844 | Married, living in West Dean, Gloucestershire, England |
| 1844 | Herbert born |
| c. 1846 | George born |
| c. 1848 | Emmanuel Jr. born |
| c. 1849 | Elizabeth born |
Life in the United States
| 1851 | Immigration to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Emmanuel Jr. died, about age 3 |
| 1851 | James born |
| 1853 | Mary Ann born |
| 1855 | Thomas born |
| 1857 | Deccie May born |
| c. 1859 | Mary Ann died, about age 6 |
| c. 1859 | Moved to Mason County, Virginia |
| 1860 | Emmanuel Jr. born |
| 1865 | Ann died in childbirth, age 42 |
The family of six immigrated to the United States in 1851. Emmanuel Jr. died on the ship, and was buried at sea.
In West Virginia, Emmanuel worked as a miner.
Ann and a baby boy died in childbirth in 1865.
Emmanuel's Later Life
| 1866 | Elizabeth married Albert George Gwynn |
| 1868 | Herbert married Mary Ann Williams |
| 1875 | Deccie married Joseph Hepplewhite |
| 1882 | Emmanuel Jr. married Lydia Edith Engle |
| 1898 | Emmanuel Sr. died, age 76 |
In 1880, Emmanuel Sr. and Emmanuel Jr. (about age 20) were living together.
Descendants
- Elizabeth, Deccie, and their families remained in Mason County.
- Herbert and his family spent a few years in West Virginia before settling in Vermilion County, Illinois.
- Emmanuel Jr. and his family settled in Guernsey County, Ohio.
- George may have returned to England; census records show a George Aston, married with no children, in West Dean in 1881.
- Details on James's and Thomas's adult lives are unclear.
