Ancestry of
Benjamin Apthorp Gould

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Esther Giles

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• • Great-grandmother of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • John Giles 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Swinnerton   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Jun 1718 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Dec 1788 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Gould
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1748/1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Benjamin Gould (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Additional marriages for Esther Giles

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  • Spouse:
  • James Taylor Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Aug 1735

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Bixby

• Sources for Esther Giles

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 47, Birth record for son Benjamin Gould.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 148, Marriage of John Gould and Esther Bixby.
  • ³ Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield, Lynn, Massachusetts: Published by Thos. P. Nichols (1895), 53, 64-65.
  • ⁴ Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, editors, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 04, Ericsson - Gwin, Boston: The Biographical Society (1904), no page numbers.
  • ⁵ Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 1, 1626-1637, Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley (1924), 282.