What the records, family stories and DNA tells us about the families from Wales & Staffordshire
This section includes the Gough, Jones & Bunting families.
The Gough family were miners for most of the records I can find. They started in the Denbigh coalfield, not large but apparenty has been mined for since Medieval times and the coal was shipped to other places. The family was able, with this background, to find work in other coalfields as they did in the Staffordshire field where the coad aided the development of the potteries and then further afield in Lancashire and Yorkshire ending up in the Castlfied area of Yorkshire. The associated tree is the Goughs of Denbigh.
The paternal great-grandparents of Florence Mary Gough families from the Potteries with the names of Harvey & Bunting . The associated tree is The Harveys of Hanley.
The Harveys are a family from the Potteries, the oldest being Jesse Harvey born at Shelton, a suburb now of Stoke-on-Trent. Jesse & his wife Elizabeth Bailey had daughter Ann and Mary; both of which have DNA matches to the family. Ann married Joseph Bunting, see below.
The Bunting families seem to have originated in Derbyshire with Joseph Bunting, 1810-1857, from Belper who was a Silk lawn weaver. He married Ann, in 1836 in Hanley, Staffordshire and they had 6 children, 3 of which have known DNA matches to LS & NGJ apart from those who also have Gough ancestry.
Revised February 2025.