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Yes my grandfathers grandmother was a gaze.

(Great great grandmother) Dorothy gaze 1891 - 1976
(Great grandfather)Kenneth Charles John 1916 - 2000
Grandfather

Charles is the brother of Dorothy

So you would be related by blood to any of Charles's descendants. DNA testing might be worth a shot, although the lack of any Jewish results wouldn't rule it out. For example, my Jewish 4th-g-grandfather is on my mother's side. My mother is deceased but her sister did the DNA testing and for the longest time she didn't show any Jewish heritage in her results, until the last update.

Do you know if any descendants of James Gaze and Mary Shuker have done the DNA testing and if they had any Jewish results?

His dad George was born in kemmerton Gloucestershire in the year 1770 I don’t have a date of death.

Yeah I was going to phone some different libraries but I didn’t want to waste their time. I asked the Pontypridd library for documents for my a lot of different family members but they couldn’t help

I think it's easier for the librarian if you write a detailed but concise email outlining exactly what you have and what you're looking for.

For all you know, someone might have written a history of the local Jewish community (if there was one in the right time frame) and it might be easy to check. Or the library might have nothing.

Some family stories turn out to be correct and others turn out to be incorrect. You never know until you investigate. Maybe it was the Shuker surname that sounded Jewish to someone but the story got mixed up.

Do you have documentation showing where James Gaze was born and who his parents were?

You could write an email to the relevant local library, give them the information you have on the earliest proven ancestor of Charles Gaze, and ask if they have any information that might shed light on whether or not the Gaze [edit: and/or Shuker] families were Jewish.

So, for example, you know James Gaze and Mary Shuker were married in Dudley, Worcestershire on 25 Aug. 1818. You might start by contacting the library in Dudley.

Some librarians will do a 15-minute look-up for free and then they'll charge a small fee, so make it clear you'd be willing to pay for a look-up. If they don't have the resources there, they should be able to tell you who else you might be able to contact. For example, there might be a local history society that could help.

My suggestion would be to provide as much specific information as you have so the librarian won't waste his/her time looking for something you already have.

If I've got the right family for Charles in the 1871 census, this might be his father's obit:

Pontypridd Observer
Sat., Sept. 21, 1907

“We regret to record the death of Mr. Thomas Gaze, chainworker, Pontypridd, which took place at his residence in The Avenue on Tuesday last. Deceased was 67 years of age and much respected. The funeral takes place to-day.”

Pontypridd Observer
Sat., Sept. 21, 1907

“OBITUARY.
“Thomas Gaze, Chainmaker. – Funeral Cortege will leave No. 25, The Avenue, at 3 p.m., Saturday, for Glyntaff Cemetery.”

That doesn't seem to be a Jewish cemetery, either.

If he's the right guy in 1871, he was born circa 1839 in Cradley, Staffordshire [edit: it's in Worcestershire, according to the 1841 & 1851 censuses, but the 1871 says Staffordshire].

That would be correct, from the census that I have looked at, the date of birth has been around 1869 and I only found his date of death by accident.

I am only looking for his family history, there was a possibility of Jewish DNA in the family.

His daughter would probably most likely be dead now as she was born in the year 1900.

Can you post the info from the census records to make it easier for people to try to think of other possible resources that might answer your question?