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Janey is this the last one?
I noted Maureen had found the first 2?
First name(s): William
Last name: PONTON
Calculated year of birth: 1801
Parish of birth: Warminster
Town of birth: Warminster
County of birth: Wiltshire
Age at attestation: 17 years
Attestation date: 11 March 1818
Discharge rank: Colr Serjeant
Discharge corps: 7th Royal Regt Of Fusiliers
Discharge soldier number: 148
The National Archives reference: WO97 / 292 / 14
Janey, again i can also email you the images if you wish them.
Tracey x
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I shall PM you the place to send and thanks very much!
Didn't expect there'd be much there, but just finding the records at all seems to be confirmation of my William's existence, since he's not in censuses.
Adding just for me:
Name: Elizabeth Ponton
Burial Date: 23 Dec 1831
Burial Place: Canterbury, Kent, England
Collection: England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Could be my Elizabeth wife of William mother of Mary. Could be somebody else ... as could:
Name: Elizabeth Haris Ponton
Burial Date: 27 Jan 1839
Burial Place: Canterbury, Kent, England
Collection: England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Birth/Christening, 1780 - 1820, Kent, England, British Isles
Father: James Ponton, Mother: Mary
International Genealogical Index - Christenings
1. Eliza Ponton - 05 APR 1812 St Margaret'S, Canterbury, Kent, England
2. Maria Susannah Ponton - 27 DEC 1807 St Margaret'S, Canterbury, Kent, England
3. WILLIAM PONTON - 05 JUN 1796 Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England
4. JAMES PONTON - 10 JUN 1798 Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England (died 1866?)
5. CHARLOTTE PONTON - 27 JUL 1800 Saint Mary Magdalene, Canterbury, Kent, England
6. SARAH PONTON - 16 MAR 1794 Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England
7. Ann Ponton - 18 MAR 1792 Canterbury, Kent, England
plus
Name: George Ponton
Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Oct 1804
Baptism/Christening Place: Canterbury, Kent, England
Father's Name: James Ponton
Mother's Name: Mary
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: John Ponton
Baptism/Christening Date: 26 Sep 1802
Baptism/Christening Place: St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury, Kent, England
Father's Name: James Ponton
Mother's Name: Mary Ponton
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Groom's Name: James Ponton
Bride's Name: Mary Young
Marriage Date: 26 Dec 1791
Marriage Place: St. Mildred, Canterbury, Kent, England
Collection: England Marriages, 1538–1973
Just building my tree!
1851
Name: George Ponton
Age: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1829
Relation: Lodger
Where born: Canterbury, Kent, England
Civil parish: St Pancras
1841
Name: George Pontons (it says Ponton)
Age: 12
Estimated birth year: abt 1829
Gender: Male
Where born: Kent, England
Civil parish: St Margaret
Hundred: Canterbury City and Borough
County/Island: Kent
City of Canterbury Workhouse
(and I've traced him forward)
A brother for Mary?? Looks like. And found their grandmother Mary (Young) Ponton still living in Kent in 1841.
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Sorry-off to bed. Catch you in the morning.
Maureen
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Janey,
If you'll accept the images via e-mail from me...I've got the first 2 fellows ready to roll. Not much info on them,I'm afraid.
Best,
Maureen
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16 Dec 2010 - Thread was started with the following request for a lookup, now it's just me looking for my people. ;) With many thanks for the help here.
William Ponton -- there are three of them the right-ish age showing on a free search at FMP.
I *think* one of them will be my grx3 grandfather. (Time to start chasing a different line!)
PONTON William 1797 Canterbury, Kent
PONTON William 1799 Swindon, Wiltshire
PONTON William 1801 Warminster, Wiltshire
I don't know what details FMP has on these Chelsea Pensioners, but if someone would check and tell me, I'd be most hugely grateful.
All three of them I guess, just for good measure!
I had been eying the Warminster one, who is in Faversham in the 1851 census
Name: William Ponton
Estimated birth year: abt 1801
Where born: Warminster, Wiltshire, England
with daughter Amelia c1846 Devon.
Same household in 1871, now in Blean; he died there later in 1871; Amelia married later that year. He is Chelsea Pensioner.
On my WP's daughter Mary's marriage certificate mid-1850s she stated father's occupation as "soldier". Could have been deceased, of course. Probably was.
Here's what a distant cousin (in the family my Ponton married into) told me a couple of years ago:
I had a look at the Christening Index and found that there are in fact two Mary Pontons on it
- one baptised 19 December 1824, daughter of William & Elizabeth >> presumably mine
- the other baptised 18 September 1825, daughter of George & Elizabeth.
My presumed Mary shows in censuses as born Canterbury c1826 and is a servant in 1841. She's the only Ponton in St Mary Magdalen. So no hope of associating her with family in early censuses.
I've ruled out loads of others (e.g. John W Ponton c1825 in Faversham with sister Hannah Rogers was son of William and Mary and born Lancashire.) (Also ruled out the WP in Devon in 1841, Gunner RN, as he is there 41-51-61, and would have been a Greenwich Pensioner.)
A James Ponton and Mary Young married 1791 in St Mildred, Canterbury, and had a load of children; Mary is in St Margaret, aged 70, in 1841. And now after an hour of casting about in all these records, I find -- son William:
WILLIAM PONTON
Christening: 05 JUN 1796 Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England
Father: JAMES PONTON
Mother: MARY
Batch No.: P015161
Well dandy! -- good chance that is my William, not the one in Kent born in Warminster. And deceased by 1841. Father James could have come from Warminster (most Pontons do) -- there are baptisms 1769, 1773 (submitted, both with father William). I may have just got two generations back.
The only other child of a WP and Elizabeth at pilot.familysearch is James born 1809, Faversham. That James would be too early to be a child of my WP (if born 1796) and Elizabeth. Mary isn't there or in the IGI.
Anyhow! Would be grateful for the Chelsea Pensioners info, whatever little it is!
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