Ambrose Thurston, Jr

1852 - 1892  (39 years)

• Name	Ambrose Thurston  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Jr
  Birth	23 Sep 1852	Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1870	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  	Age: 17; Son of Serena and Ambrose Thurston
  Residence	Abt 1892	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [2]
  Death	19 Jan 1892	Maine, USA   [1, 2]
  Probate	Jan 1895	Hancock County, Maine, USA   [2]
  Burial	Mount Rest Cemetery, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  		Cemetery-Mount Rest (Stonington ME)
  Person ID	I847	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Captain Ambrose Thurston,   b. 24 Aug 1806, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 20 Apr 1886, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Serena Merrill Gott,   b. 8 May 1813, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 1 Apr 1877, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	4 Dec 1835	Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F2108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hester Ann Weed,   b. 24 Apr 1845, Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 10 Jan 1921, Rockland, Knox, Maine, USA (Age 75 years)
  Children	1. Erwin Ambrose Thurston,   b. 21 Aug 1885, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 8 Feb 1976, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA (Age 90 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F14187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Sep 1852 - Stonington, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - Age: 17; Son of Serena and Ambrose Thurston - 1870 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Residence - Abt 1892 - Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 19 Jan 1892 - Maine, USA Probate - Jan 1895 - Hancock County, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S9] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S32] Ancestry.com, Maine, Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Maine, Hancock County, Probate Records, Estate Files; Probate Place: Hancock, Maine. Maine, Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999 [S119] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; Roll: M593_544; Page: 432B. 1870 United States Federal Census [S22] Pierce, William MacBeth, Old Hancock County Families, (Name: Hancock County Publishing; Location: Ellsworth, Maine; Date: 1933;), Gott - Mt. Desert, Swan's Island, Pages 26 - 29. Charles Gott came to America with Gov. John Endicott, and his company of Puritans, sailing from Weymouth, England, in the "Abigail", June 20, 1628, and arriving at Naumkeag (Salem, Mass.,) Sept. 6, 1628. He died in Wenham, Mass., Jan. 15, 1668. [S528] William Otis Sawtelle, Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer, (Date: 1926;), Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants, 929.2 G6852. NOTES ON THE GOTTS OF NEW ENGLAND The name of Gott is of Old English origin, meaning a water way or water course, to be recognized in our word gutter and gut, meaning a channel of restricted limits. As early as the fourteenth century Gotts appear in the English records and later as residents in Yorkshire and in Kent. A diligent search among the parish records of Old England has failed to locate the antecedents of Charles Gott and his wife Sarah, first of the name in New England. In the publications of the British Records Society the name is frequently met with and also in the numerous English county genealogies; but no mention of any Charles Gott of whom Hubbard thus speaks: “With Mr. Endicot in the year 1628 came Mr. Gotte, Mr. Brokenbury, Mr. Davenport and others who being added to Capt. Trask’s preparations for a new colony that was coming over.” The Captain Trask mentioned by the New England historian was Captain William Trask and it is interesting to note this early mention of two family names well known in the Mount Desert region. As the history of any region is contained in family records I make no apology in presenting these papers relating to the Gotts of New England who spread from Salem, Massachusetts, to Connecticut and to New York; to various parts of Maine, especially Mount Desert where many of them were among the first permanent settlers. La Petite Plaisance of Champlain is our Gott’s Island of today; a name for which the lack of euphony is more than compensated by its significance in the pioneer history of Mount Desert.