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Guion

• References:
  • Guion family history by Hans Weebers.

  • Lloyd v. Pooley, 1874, [NA.UK], Contentious Probate Case Files, Court of Probate, J 121/2388.

Daniel Guion (died 1811).
Portrait around 1810.
From Hans Weebers.

Daniel Guion, of London,
of a Huguenot family,
mar Ann Harwood,
had issue:

1. Gardiner Henry Guion,
   born 1775, Royal Navy officer,
   ancestor of:
   1. Hans Weebers,
      researching family tree.

   
   

2. Daniel Guion (see here),
   born 20 Apr 1776, London,
   Royal Navy officer, he was a Captain,
   he served in Egypt in 1801,
   mar c.1809 (her age c.17, him age c.33) to Sara Harnett (or Ponsonby) [born c.1792],
   she was the daughter of the deceased James Fuller Harnett, and the step-daughter from a young age of William Ponsonby of Crotto, Co.Kerry,
   [Guion family history] says Daniel met her while he was cruising off Ireland, they married in the library of her (step) father's house (would be Crotto), though against her (step) father's wishes, and she was disowned by her family,
   Daniel left her for the Baltics on 10 Apr 1810,
   he was made Captain of the St George in Feb 1811 (he was "flag captain", captain of the Vice-Admiral's flagship),
   he died 24 Dec 1811, age 35 yrs, when his ship the St George was wrecked off Denmark with the loss of over 700 men,
   [Guion family records] say that Sara was: "Disowned by her father. Was a beautiful girl who was called on account of her frightful temper the beautiful fiend. She was married in her father's library (against her parent's desire who nevertheless consented) and went off with him directly. She was only seventeen when he left her on Xmas Eve in the admiral ship for the Baltic where he was frozen to death",
   Sara lived Southampton,
   settled in 1866 [according to Robert Burrowes] in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset,
   she stayed in contact with her step-sister Anne Ponsonby (who married Lloyd and died 1866),
   in her will of 1867 she refers to Anne's son George Ponsonby Lloyd as her nephew,
   she died 16 June 1873, Weston-Super-Mare, age c.81 yrs.

   Her step-nephew George Ponsonby Lloyd disputed her will in 1874. (He was the only blood relative of hers mentioned in her will, and he was left very little.) A witness in the dispute, Fanny Burrowes, said that Sara had "often spoken to me of her nephew Mr. Lloyd (the Plaintiff in this cause) before the time of her making her will. She seemed to have a great objection to him - indeed a perfect horror of him. ... she stated that the reason for this feeling was that she was much attached to her half sister Mrs. Lloyd his mother whose life he had not made happy - she told me he was a dissipated character and given to drink. She also told me that it was not her intention that he should benefit by her will." Fanny Burrowes also said: "I mentioned her nephew every time I called. I asked her if she did not wish to see him. She always said she did not wish to see him. She spoke of him as "that horrid creature"". Fanny's husband Robert Burrowes was also a witness, and said about Sara's relationship with her nephew: "Mrs. Guion expressed herself hurt that none of her family had gone near her". George Ponsonby Lloyd failed to overturn the will.

Sara Harnett shown in [Fuller, 1910].

Sara Guion (née Harnett) writes a letter to her nephew George Ponsonby Lloyd in 1866.

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