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Descendants of James Guyton

Generation No. 1

1. JAMES² GUYTON (JAMES¹) was born June 1834 in Dublin, Ireland, and died January 22, 1920 in Dallas, Texas. He married LUCY WATSON ATTERSALL February 17, 1858 in Clark, Kentucky, daughter of THOMAS ATTERSALL and DIANA HAMMOND. She was born June 24, 1835 in London, England, and died December 14, 1886 in Dallas, Texas.

Notes for JAMES GUYTON:
James Guyton was born in 1833 in Dublin, Ireland, he came to America at the age of 16. From the time he left home to the end of his life, he never again saw a member of his family. Little is known of them. He is known to have mentioned two younger brothers, Peter and Dick, and a sister, Mary. His father was a writer who contributed to the magazines of his day. He is known to have mentioned a titled uncle (hereditary title), who was inordinately proud of his social position that he lost his mind. Since his father was a younger son, there was no inheritance for him. James Guyton too, was a younger son; therefore he came to America to make a life for himself. One of the pleasant memories of his departure from Liverpool, England (his family had moved from Dublin, Ireland to Birmingham, England) was the fact that his half brother John McCall ( His mother's son from a previous marriage), who went down to see him off, gave him his overcoat because it was cold. He went first, upon arriving in America, to New York where he called on relatives named Shean, one of who was a senator. They were people of means and gave their penniless caller a cool reception. He made no further efforts to contact them and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he learned the shoe manufacturing business. He then went to Winchester, Kentucky, where he operated a shoe factory of his own. It was here that he met and married Lucy Attersall. Later, he bought the country home of General Blackwell and tried his hand at farming. When his house burned, he built a house at nearby Haden's Corner. A tradition in the family is that the name Guyton was originally spelled "GUITON". It is said that a sign painter misspelled the name when he painted a sign for the factory and that, to avoid confusion, James Guyton adopted the misspelled name for his own.
According to a Niece who lived in Winchester, Kentucky, James Guyton was a popular man in Winchester. His ready wit made him a favorite with everyone. The invention of machines for making shoes made it unprofitable for him to continue his factory in which shoes were made by hand; therefore, in 1881, he moved to Dallas, Texas, where he engaged in the real estate business. In later years, he returned to Ireland and England with the hope of finding members of his family. A friend of the family, who remembered him, told him that one relative had gone to the gold fields of Africa, another to Australia. Aside from this meager information, he could learn nothing about them. He did not remain long in England because his heart was now in America and even the manner of speech of the English people seemed strange to him. He died in Dallas, Texas, and was buried in Winchester, Kentucky.
Dallas Texas Business Directory 1889 to 1894
Business listed as J. Guyton & Son East side Germania between Swiss Avenue and
Greenwood, Dallas, Texas.

1860 United States Census,Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, District No. 2, Dwelling 570 Family 570
Attersall Thomas C. age 61 Occupation Coach Smith Value of Personal Estate 50 born England
Diana age 60
William age 18 Occupation Coach Maker Value of Personal Estate 100 born England
Guyton Lucy age 25
Guyton James age 28 Occupation Shoemaker Value of Personal Estate 300
Guyton John age 8/12 born Kentucky

1870 United States Census, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, Page 11, Dwelling 60, Family 71
Guyton James age 33 Shoemaker Value Of Real Estate3000 Value of Personal Estate 2000 born Ireland
L.W. age 33 Keeping House born England
John age 10 At Home born Kentucky
Sarah E. age 9
William F. age 6
Margaret D, age 4
Lucy W. age 1
Jackson William age 13 Apprentice shoemaker

1880 United States Census, German Town, Clark County, Kentucky, Page 36 Supervisor's Dist. No.4, Enumeration Dist. No. 54, Dwelling 283 Family 299
Guyton James age 47 Occupation Farmer born Ireland Parents born Ireland
Lucy age 44 Wife, born England parents born England
John age 21 Son, born Kentucky father born Ireland mother born England
Lizzie age 19 Daughter
William age 16 Son
Maggie age 13 Daughter
Lucy age 11 Daughter
Annie age 9 Daughter
Sue age 7 Daughter
James Jr. age 5 Son
Katie age 3 Daughter

From the Dallas News, March 1931 (Fifty Years Ago Today Dallas and State March 11, 1881)
James Guyton and Family of Winchester, Kentucky arrived here and will probably make Dallas their future home.

1900 United States Census, Dallas, Texas, Supervisors District No. 6, Enumeration District 109, Sheet 25 164-515-540
Guyton, James born June 1835 age 65 born Ireland Immigrated 1850 Number of years in U.S. 50
Real Estate Agent Own Home
Guyton Sue daughter born Oct 1873 age 26 Single School Teacher
Guyton James son born Jan 1876 age 24 Single Stenographer
Guyton Kate daughter born June 1878 age Single 21 Freight Agent R.R.

1910 United States Census, Justice Precinct 1, 3 WD Dallas, Texas, Roll #1543 Book 1 Page 267B, 981 Boyau Street Dwelling 34 Family 35
James Guyton age 70 widowed, married 27 years born Ireland
Sue dau age 34 born KY
Kate dau age 32 born KY
Lucy grand-daughter age 14 born Louisana

1920 United States Census, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, 4907-22-38
Guyton, James age 84 born Ireland Immigrated 1858, Naturalized 1865
Guyton Sue Dau age 44 born Kentucky Occupation School Teacher
Guyton, Kate Dau age 42 born Kentucky Occupation School Teacher

Letter from David Guyton ( DFGuyton@compuserve.com) Friday August 25, 2000

James Guyton's origins in Ireland are more conjectural. Records are so fragmented and so many have been lost that it is well nigh impossible to establish family groupings. The most plausible origin of the line in Ireland dates back to the arrival of Huguenot refugees from France in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Going back to the mid sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, there were two lines of minor French nobility by the name of Guyton/Guiton in the eastern part of France now known as Charente Maritime. This is the area north of Bordeaux and the River Gironde and includes the famous port and citadel of LaRochelle where Jean Guiton was mayor and leader of the council of war defending the Huguenot bastion against French royalist forces in 1628/29 in the desperate siege lasting 14 months before the town was eventually overcome.
One of the two lines was headed by Isaac de Guyton de Villeneuve who was born about 1630 and became a clerk and counsellor in the royal court and was later ennobled. After his elevation, he moved to LaRochelle but did not belong to the same branch of the family as Jean Guiton. Isaac de Guyton's eldest son, Isaac Guyton, was born about 1955 and married Marie Coulion. two of their children, Daniel Guyton and Samuel Guyton, were later recorded as leaving France as emigrants and refugees.
No trace has been found of Samuel Guyton but there is a record of the marriage of a Daniel Guiton in the register of the French Conformed Churches of St. Patrick and St Mary in Dublin, Ireland on December 16 1705.
"26 December 1705 Daniel Guiton, de Royan en Saintonge, marinier,....et Rachel Gacoing, de Vitre en Bretange,... le dit Guiton estant fils de Isaac Guiton et de Marie Coulion, et la ditte Rachel Gacoing, fille de Elie Gacoing et de Gilette Basin...."
I have no evidence but I feel reasonably sure that this in the line which gives rise to the scattering of the Guiton families in the middle of Ireland in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. for example, there was a baptism of an Isaac Chevalier Guitton, son of Peter Guitton and Ann, on 30 November 1777 at Dundalk, County Louth, just north of Dublin. the names Isaac and Chevalier, meaning a knight, have clear echoes back to earlier members of the family in France. It is quite possible, therefore, that James Guyton did have rather distant connections with a line of minor French nobility.
Several Guiton with an Irish origin have been recorded in England but, as Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, there are no immigration records to check dates and places.
Your document implies the James Guiton immigrated in about 1849 when he was sixteen. Liverpool was the principal port of embarkation for America and people came from all over England and Ireland and elsewhere in Europe to set sail. At about that time a Michael Guiton/Guyton, born about 1831 and his wife Mary (formerly Maher), moved from Ireland to Liverpool. There were also two other Guytons, an Edward Guyton (whose wife's maiden name was also Maher) and a John Guyton, born about 1824 and 1830 respectively, in Liverpool at around that time or a little later that I have not been able to connect with the Guytons from Norwich. Any one of these could be the half brother mentioned in the document.
There was also another Guyton family living in Liverpool at the time but I am fairly sure that this family was connected to the Guyton's of Norwich, England, rather than Ireland. the head of the family, William Guyton, was a shipping agent and his oldest son, also William Guyton, travelled widely and lived for a time in Australia and New Zealand. Whether there is any connection here is hard to tell.
I also have an extract from a letter written by an American Guyton researcher, Berl Powell Guyton in 1987 when he was about 88;-
"I found a letter written by David Guyton from 41 Dirkson Crescent, Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand dated 6/19/64. He was born at sea near Galveston, Texas. His ancestors came from Normandie, France to South Carolina then to North Miss. in 1852. His forefather came to New Zealand, first in 1841 and became the first Lord Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand and the name of Guyton Scarat?? Wanganin North Island, New Zealand was named after my forefathers, he was born in Liverpool, England, and returned to England after a short stay of a year. He was the first person to run a shipping company from Nan Janin (?) Wellington. they have many records of the family in Liverpool....."
Berl Guyton's died in 1995 and one of my other correspondents has tried to track down the whereabouts of his papers, unfortunately so far without success.
We are left, therefore, with a number of intriguing glimpses but enough, I think to reinforce the outline given in your document.

( I think this is the record of his arrival but I do not have the proof of it yet
found on the Irish Immigrants New York Port arrivals 1846-1851 of ancestry.com)
James Gaydon
Gender: Male Embarkation: Liverpool
Age: 17 Ship: Constellation
Occupation: workman/woman Passengers: 904
Residence: Unknown Compartment:
Native Country: Great Britain Destination: USA
Literacy: Arrival Date: 2 October 1850
Transit

More About JAMES GUYTON:
Burial: Unknown, Winchester Cemetery, Clark Co., Winchester, Kentucky

Notes for LUCY WATSON ATTERSALL:
Pallot's Baptism Index for England: 1780 - 1837
Lucy Watson Attersall was baptised in 1835 her Father was Thomas Charles her Mother was Diana
Place: St. Martin In The Fields Middlesex

OBIT
Death of Mrs. Lucy Guyton
After an illness of three weeks, Mrs. Lucy Watson Guyton, died Tuesday afternoon, at the family residence. Mo. 1111 Pacific Avenue, of inflammation of the bowels, aged fifty-one years. she leaves behind a bereaved husband and nine children. three sons and six daughters, to mourn the loss of a devoted, faithful wife and mother.
The deceased was a native of London, and at the age of twelve moved to Winchester, Kentucky, where she lived until a few years ago, when they removed to this city.
Mr. William Attersall, her brother, will arrive tonight to escort the remains back for burial, and Mr. Guyton will accompany him.

More About LUCY WATSON ATTERSALL:
Burial: Unknown, Winchester Cemetery, Clark Co., Winchester, Kentucky

Children of JAMES GUYTON and LUCY ATTERSALL are:

2.	i.	JOHN THOMAS³ GUYTON, b. November 05, 1859, Kentucky; d. December 14, 1928, Miami, Florida.
3.	ii.	ELIZABETH SARAH GUYTON, b. 1861, Kentucky; d. 1901.
4.	iii.	WILLIAM ALFRED GUYTON, b. November 1864, Kentucky; d. Abt. 1917, Galveston, Texas.
5.	iv.	MARGARET DIANA GUYTON, b. October 1866, Kentucky; d. October 21, 1940.
	v.	LUCY WATSON GUYTON, b. November 06, 1868, Kentucky; d. September 07, 1908, Dallas, Texas; m. SMITH ESTIL RAGSDALE; b. Abt. 1866, Texas; d. Unknown.

Notes for LUCY WATSON GUYTON:
September 16, 1893, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3. Public School Open
Lists of Principals and Teachers in theVarious Grades- The First Day's Attendance Large in Numbers.
Miss Annie Guyton. High and low third grades, Miss Lucy Guyton. High and low second grades,

More About LUCY WATSON GUYTON:
Burial: Unknown, Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas

Notes for SMITH ESTIL RAGSDALE:
1920 United States Census, Justice Precint, Dallas, Texas ED#9 Dwelling 409
Smith Ragsdale, age 53 and his wife Jane age 32 is found living in a boarding house ran by Lelia Blackwell. He is working for the Railroad and she is working in a insurance office.

1930 U.S. Census, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, District 32. 3610 Gaston Street, Dwelling 239 Family 334
Smith E. Ragsdale, age 64, age at first marriage 29 born Texas
Jane F. wife, age 41, age at first marriage 23, born Texas
Smith is still working for the Railroad and Jane is working at the counter in a Restaurant.

More About SMITH ESTIL RAGSDALE:
Burial: Unknown, Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas

6.	vi.		ANN MOSS GUYTON, b. October 27, 1870, Kentucky; d. Unknown.
	vii.		SUE MILLER GUYTON, b. 1872, Kentucky; d. February 27, 1965, Dallas, Texas.

Notes for SUE MILLER GUYTON:
1910-1911 Dallas County School Teachers
6th Grade Teacher
Sue Guyton.

1910 Worley's Dallas City Directory

Guyton, Sue M. teacher Columbian School
Home address 981 Bryan

1930 U.S. Census, District 18, Dallas, Texas, Ancestry.com Image 84 of 88 4927 Bryant Street Dwelling 182 Family 208

Sue Guyton female age 50, Single, Owns home value 7000, owns a radio, Born KY Occupation Teacher
Kate Guyton female, sister, age 45, Single Born KY Occupation Teacher at Private school
Mary Noble, female Lodger age 41, Single, unemployed

More About SUE MILLER GUYTON:
Burial: Unknown, Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas

7.	viii.		JAMES RICHARD GUYTON, b. 1875, Kentucky; d. Unknown.
	ix.		KATHERINE CAROLINE GUYTON, b. 1877, Kentucky; d. 1951, Dallas, Texas.

Notes for KATHERINE CAROLINE GUYTON:
1910 Worley's Dallas City Directory
Miss Kate Guyton Teacher
home address 981 Bryan

	x.		AVERY C. GUYTON, b. 1880; d. Unknown.
	xi.		MARY JANE GUYTON, d. Unknown, Infancy.

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