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Locality
Early Generations

Locality

The original Gault name comes from France. They were Huguenots who escaped, apparently "in a barrel", across to England and Ireland. They came from a town named Gault, which is the French for clay.

The lineage noted herein is traced back to Trillick in Kilskeery Parish, County Fermanagh, Ireland. The Kilskeery CoI parish registers include the following Gault entries (note: this should not be regarded as an exhaustive list as the primary search focus was Beatty and McGregor data)

Baptisms

1792

Feb

15

GAULT

Ann

d

Henry

&

Mary

Trillick

1822

Dec

23

GAULT

Samuel

s

Robert

&

Elizabeth

Trillick

1825

Apr

11

GAULT

Archibald

s

Robert

&

Elizabeth

Trillick

1827

Jan

18

GAULT

Edward

s

Robert

&

Elizabeth

Trillick

1828

Nov

3

GAULT

Robert Nelson

s

Robert

&

Elizabeth

Trillick

1829

Nov

15

????

Mary

d**

Edward GAULT

&

Anne ????

Trillick

1831

May

31

GAULT

Benjamin

s of

Robert

and

Eliza

Trillick

1833

Feb

25

GAULT

Jane

d of

Robert

and

Eliza

Trillick

** “[1829] Nov 15 ????   Mary Illegitimate daughter of Edward GAULT and Anne ????            Trillick

Marriages

1787

Sep

12

SCOLES

Henry

of Aghavea

GAULT

Ann

of Kilskeery

Lic.

1804

Aug

12

SWEENY

John

 

GAULT

Christian

of Kilskeery

Lic.

Early Generations

1 Edward Leslie Gault (c1863…1950s) m1. Gertrude Woodall (…c1907), m2. Dora Swanton (…1950s)

The family of Edward Leslie Gault, born about 1863 near Manchester in England, seems to have come from Trillick in County Fermanagh, Ireland and settled in the Manchester area. Edward's father developed tuberculosis, and his mother decided they should all migrate to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which they did when Edward was about 7 years old (1870?). The father subsequently died, and the mother brought up the family single-handed. There is a story about Edward being sent off to sit for a scholarship (to Wesley) and falling in the mud. When he arrived home tearful, his mother changed his clothes and sent him off again. He won a scholarship, went to Wesley, then Melbourne University, and became a well-known eye specialist.

Edward married a Gertrude Woodall, and they had three children :
The family lived in a large house on five acres of land in what is now suburban Hawthorn. The house they called Kent, as Edward was a real Anglophile. Gertrude died about 1907 of cancer, and Edward married her cousin Dora Swanton, who then had to bring up the children.

Adelaide and the younger Edward both studied medicine, Adelaide becoming another well-known eye specialist, first helping in, and later taking over, her father's practice.

Edward made some unwise financial decisions in the 1930s, and they sold Kent about 1940, moving into a flat. In about 1947 (?) they bought a house in Warrandyte, which was a semi-rural village 14 miles east of the city. They named this house Trillick. He, and his wife, died in the mid 1950s. His daughter, Adelaide, unmarried, lived there until she died in 1977.
 

1.1 Edward Gault (c1903…) m. Edna Bayliss (…)h4>

 

Edward Gault married Edna Bayliss, also a medico from Sydney, and they spent most of their working life as medical missionaries in India. Their two children are:
John is also a medico and lived in Bendigo (c2002). Louise married Stewart Joy, who was a transport economist, and they built and lived in a house next to Trillick, apart from a sojourn in London with British Rail. Louise still lives in Warrandyte, Stewart having died in 1998. They have four children: Heidi, Rosie, Tim and David.

Edward and John visited Gault in France.

1.2 Kathleen Gault (1905…) m1. Malcolm Fraser (…)

Kathleen Gault, a kindergarten teacher, married physicist Malcolm Fraser in 1931.
There were cousins named Howarth near Hawthorn Victoria visited by the family in 1954.
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