These GAUNTs are possiby connected to mine. They originate in the same area of Staffordshire.
Admiral Sir EFA Gaunt has a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery [available online]
I think the family tree is available at Rootsweb
Regards
Tom Gaunt
Anyhow here is what I have
Family Details
William Henry Gaunt
Born 27/7/1830 in Leek Staffordshire England, son of John a banker and his
wife Mary (nee Bakewell). Wm arrived in Vic and received is first
Government appointment as Chief Clerk in Beechworth, March 1854.
Sub-Warden for the Beechworth mining district in Jan 1856
August 1856 Chinese Protector and given control of the Woolshed district
(the richest mining area in the northeast)
Police Magistrate in 1857 and was sent to Buckland to restore order after
Chinese riots in July that year.
Jan 58 Warden appointment and transferred to Chiltern (not far from
Beechworth)
Later Commissioner of Crown Lands and Coroner.
April 1865 back to Beechworth then later moved to Sandhurst and Ballarat.
Studied law, called to the Bar in 1873. Barrister in Ballarat, County Court
Judge in 1891.
Married Elizabeth Mary Palmer 1860 daughter of Frederick P.
William died 5/10/1905 in the suburb of Malvern, Melbourne, leaving wife 5 sons and 2 daughters.
William Henry GAUNT
Married Elizabeth Mary PALMER
Year 1860
and became parents to:
Mary Elizabeth Bakewell GAUNT
Born Indigo 1861
Married Hubert Lindsay Miller in Chiltern in 1894
Author of several novels depicting life in the 'outback' of Australia. Hubert died in 1900. Mary left for England in 1901. She also travelled to China and West Africa. Lived in England for a time during WW1, then she moved to the Italian Riviera. She lived on the Ligurian coast of Italy for twenty years.
When WW2 broke she was forced to flee to France, leaving all her writings, unpublished manuscripts, and belongings She died in Cannes in 1942.
Lucy Georgina Elizabeth GAUNT
Born Indigo 1862
Married Oakely Archer in Indigo in 1890
Chd. Atherstone Oakely Archer b. Malvern 1892
Chd. Mary Archer b. Malvern 1893
Died in Adale in 1936 age 73
Cecil Robert GAUNT
Born Chiltern 1863
Later a Lieutenant - Colonel in the Dragoon Guards
Died in Frankston in 1942
Ernest Frederick GAUNT
Born Beechworth 1865
Joined the Royal Navy in 1878 at the age of 13, at the time of the 1881 census he was a seaman on HMS Wolverine 'at sea', by the time of the 1891 census he was a Lieutenant on HMS Belleisle based in Stoke Damerel [Plymouth] Devon.
In 1896 he was Ist Lieutenant on armoured cruiser HMS Narcissus.
1898/99 1st Commissioner for Weihawei and Administrator for Liukungtao, China
1900 Commisioner and Superintending transport officer Weihawei, China
1900 / 01 Boxer Rebellion, China
1903 Commanding landing party, HMS Mohawk, Durbo, Swaziland.
1913 Commadore RN Barracks
1913 / 14 Aide -de-camp to King George V
1916 WW1. Rear Admiral, 1st Battle Sqdn. Battle of Jutland, flagship HMS Collossus
1917 / 19 Commander -in- Chief , East Indies
1921 / 22 Commander -in-Chief, Western Approaches
1925 retired. Knighted
1940 Died in Chelsea, London, England
Guy Reginald GAUNT
Born Ballarar 1869
Later an Admiral and Knighted
Vere Arnold GAUNT
Died 1871
Aged 4 months
Clive Herbert GAUNT
Born Ballarat 1872
Later a Barrister and Government Advocate in Rangoon, Burma
Lancelot Evelyn GAUNT
Born Ballarat 1875
Ref. 300
Alice Maude Victoria GAUNT
Born Ballarat 1876
Ref. 20859
Died 1877
Aged 5 months
William Henry GAUNT
Born Queenscliffe 1881
Ref. 25478
Died Queenscliffe 1881
Aged 11 days
