Gaulding Origins

4:1 Gosnold of Otley
The Family of Bartholomew Gosnold of Jamestown

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The family of Bartholomew Gosnold, founding father of Jamestown
In the introduction to his biography on the life of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, the author James Henry Lea wrote" 

"Among the names connected with the founding of our Commonwealth, there is no more interesting personality than that of the distinguished navigator and discoverer, Bartholomew Gosnold and yet, strangely enough, there is none whose personal and family  history have been so uniformly neglected by our historians and genealogist; the former dismiss him with a few brief lines of comment on his eminent services, while the latter seem satisfied to accept his own statement that he was son and heir of Anthony Gosnold of Grundisburg in Suffolk, without the curiosity to verify the fact or follow out the pedigree of the gentle and adventurous race of whom he sprung.  

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Surely the hardy pioneer of the shorter route across the Atlantic, the discoverer of the Elizabeth Islands and the founder of the first settlement of white men on the shores of New England, to say nothing of his services in the Council of the Virginia Company, in whose behalf he laid down his life among the pestilent swamps of the lower Chesapeake, deserves a better fate than such semi-oblivion.  

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...Gosnold was the only member of the Council of Virginia with whom its hot-headed President, Edward Maria Wingfield could agree..." 

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The varied family connections that linked the Gosnold family of Suffolk with the founders of the Virginia Company and also with the Golding family of Suffolk begins two generations earlier, begins with Sir Robert Gosnold of Otley, the great-grandfather of Bartholomew and his brother Anthony.

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Sir Robert Gosnold of Otley
Sir Robert Gosnold was born about 1500 at Otley Hall in Suffolk, England and he died on 20 October 1572 at Otley Hall.  He married Agnes Hill, the daughter of John Hill, Esq who was the mother of his children.  As his second wife he married Ann Doggett, the daughter of Richard "of Boxford" Doggett.  Ann is the wife named in his will.  Ann Doggett also married Thomas “of Hesset” Bacon and their son was George “of Hesset” Bacon, the father of Dorothy Bacon who again united the Bacon and Gosnold families through her marriage to Anthony Gosnold of Otley Hall.    

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1 John "of Hesset" BACON b: 1450 in Hessett, Suffolk, England, d: 1513 + Helena Tilliot b: 1455
...2 Thomas "of Hesset" Bacon b: 1475 in Hessett, Suffolk, England, d: 08 Aug 1574 in Hessett, Suffolk, England + Ann Doggett d: 1578 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England
......3 George "of Hesset" Bacon d: 1600 + Margaret d: 1573 in Hessett, Suffolk, England
.........4 Dorothy Bacon + Anthony "of Otley Hall" Gosnold b: Abt. 1530
............5 Anthony Gosnold b: Abt. 1560
............5 Bartholomew Gosnold b: 1572 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England, d: 1607 in Jamestown, James, Virginia, USA + Mary Golding b: 1574 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, m: 19 Jun 1595 in Latton, St Mary The Virgin, Essex, England, d: 23 Oct 1665 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
...............6 Mary Gosnold b: 1599 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 1660 in Dublin, Ireland + Richard "Lord Chancellor of Ireland" PEPYS.  Samuel Pepys, in his famous Diary made mention of Captain John Golding of the “Diamond” and that he was killed during a Naval Battle.  
............5 Elizabeth Gosnold + Thomas TILNEY

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The will of Sir Robert Gosnold of Otley is from Gosnold and Bacon; The Ancestry of Bartholomew Gosnold, a Collection by Henry Lea, Printed in Boston, Press of David Clapp & Son, 1904. (Lea, 1902)  

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Bartholomew Gosnold was his grandson through his son Anthony and his daughter was Christian Gosnold.  This will is most valuable in that it links together by its referenced, with absolute certainty, the family of the explorer and the pedigree of the Otley Gosnolds as given in the Visitations and leaves no possible doubt as to their identity.

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"..in Swyneland and Broadmeados and my tenement called Cloddes with lands called Shribbes in tenure of Thomas Pettawe.  And whereas I have assured to Anne my wife for a jointure (The Anne he is referring to is Anne Doggett), my manor of Netherhall in Otley and other lands and tenements amounting to L20 yearly, I give my grandson Robert Gosnold all those lands and tenements with the reversion of the said mainor to him & his heirs male.  To Anthonie my grandson, my messuage called Gardiners with its lands and my meadows called Packards and Reves and my tenement called Prattes & its lands and my lands and tenements called the Falle.  

To Robert, John, Richard, Edmond, Elizabeth and Dorothy Gosnold children of Robert my grandson L20 each at 21 years or marriage.  To my grandchild John Gosnold L20 at marriage.  To my daughters Christian Ryvett and Johan Bromley L10 each.  To John and Richard Gosnold, sons of my grandchild Robert, all my lands and tenements in Ashefeld, Cretingham and Some.  To Cicelie and Judith Gosnold, my grandchildren L7 - L10 each to "fulfill the request of my son John Gosnold deceased made to me by his last will.:  To William Gosnold " that he owes me.  To Robert Rivett and two of his unmarried sisters L5 each, Elizabeth Bacon, Elizabeth Frent.  Servant Edward Gosse.  To BARTHOLOMEW, son of Anthonie Gosnold, L20.  To Roberts son of John Gosnold L20 which I have delivered to his father.  Servant William Jolly.  robert Gosnold my grandson shall pay to his brother Edward L100 at 24 years 'to perform the will of my son robert Gosnold deceased', and where the said Edward is admitted tenant to certain lands, parcell of lands called Chamberlains lying in Grundisburgh begin copyhold, which lands with others were given to Anthonie Gosnold by the will of my said son Robert, t he said Edward shall surrender teh same to his brother.  My grandchildren Robert and Anthonie Gosnod, Executors.  SIR ROBERT WINGFIELD, Knight, Overseer. Witn: Richard Ruben & Edward Gosse.  Proved 4 Feb 1573 by Executors named in the will."

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Anthony Gosnold and Dorothy Bacon
Next in the direct ancestral line of Bartholomew Gosnold was his father Anthony Gosnold.  His mother was Dorothy Bacon.  The following is an exerpt from Gosnold and Bacon as well”

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"We will now turn from the consideration of the direct GOSNOLD LINE, ..to that of the family of BACON, from which Bartholomew Gosnold was descended through his mother, called "Dorothy Bacon of Hesset" in the pedigrees but whose paternity had remained hiterto unknown.  A long and patient search, involving the reading of several hundred wills has at last resulted in the complete demonstration of her identity as the DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND MARGARET BACON of Hessett in Suffolk,..”

These wills are most interesting for not only do they prove the important connection above stated, but the family pedigree includes also the well-known Nathaniel Bacon, 'the rebel of Virginia' and his cousin Nathaniel Bacon, the Councillor and acting Governor there with the New England families of PECK and MASON, and a more than suspected connection with the New England and Barbados families of Bacon while the English line is brilliant with the names of Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and his still more famous son, Lord Verulam."

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Bartholomew Gosnold
The source of much of the biographical information comes from A Biography of Bartholomew Gosnold, from Bartholomew Gosnold, Discover and Planter by Warner F. Gookin and Phillip Barbour.

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The descendants of Sir Robert “the elder” Gosnold of Otley, great-grandfather of Bartholomew Gosnold

1 John GOSNOLD b: Abt. 1470 + Katherine KEBBEL b: Abt. 1470

Sir Robert “the elder” Gosnold 

Bartholomew Gosnold's great-grandfather was Robert the elder, the second lord of Netherhall manor.  He left a will in 1572 in which he bequeathed to his great-grandson Bartholomew, then about a year old a nest-egg of about twenty pounds.  During his long life as the patriarch of the Gosnold family he shared in the prosperity of the area by acquiring numerous properties, including farms, manors, leased lands and meadows.  Henry VIII had indirectly through his dissolution of the monasteries made the Gosnold family even richer.  In addition to his immediate family, young Bartholomew might have heard stories of other members of his extended family.  His great-uncle, John Gosnold was a member of Parliament during the reign of Edward VI and had through his official office had a hand in the plan to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne of England after the death of young King Edward.   Fortunately his great-uncle John died before Queen Mary had an opportunity to have him executed, but unfortunately he died without leaving an heir to replace him.   

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Grand-uncle John's two sisters, Katherine and Joane would also have been extolled before young Bartholomew, for they had married two brothers of the Golding family, first cousins of the Elizabethan author and translator, Arthur Golding, and of his half-sister Margery, second wife of the noble sixteenth Earl of Oxford and mother of Edward Vere, the seventeenth Earl, who succeeded his father before Bartholomew Gosnold was born. 

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The Second Generation
...2 Sir Robert "the elder" Gosnold b: Abt. 1490 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England, d: 20 Oct 1572 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England + Ann Doggett m: Suffolk, England, d: 1578 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England + Agnes Hill b: Abt. 1490 in Ashe, Suffolk, England, m: England.  He had a brother John who played a part in the plan to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne.

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The Third Generation
Robert Gosnold and Mary Vesey
Bartholomew Gosnold’s grandfather and grandmother were Robert Gosnold and his wife Mary Vesey.  They both died long before Bartholomew and his brother Anthony were born but during their marrige they left a large family of five sons and eight daughters.  His grandfather left little impression on history and of his grandmother it may be said that she was an aunt of Abram Vesey, who married into the Winthorp family of Groton.  In later years this connection did not interest the Puritan Governor of Massachusetts at all, because he still remembered the Gosnolds as staunch defenders of the monarchy and of episcopacy.  

......3 Robert Gosnold b: 1512, d: 1559 + Mary Vesey

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Anthony Gosnold, father of Bartholomew Gosnold
In 1570 Anthony Gosnold, the father of Anthony, Bartholomew and Elizabeth Gosnold of Otley married Dorothy Bacon a granddaughter of Thomas Bacon of Hesset.  Thomas Bacon was a cousin of Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper.  Thomas Bacon in his will of 1547 named Sir Nicholas Bacon his attorney and the overseer of his estate, which suggests they had a close relationship.  One of Dorothy Bacon’s uncles also named Sir Nicholas Bacon as the overseer of his will.  

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Financial troubles
As Bartholomew and Anthony, the sons of Anthony Gosnold approached maturity, their father seems to have been busy with the task of making himself a large landowner.  He bought from his friend Lionel Talmache thirty acres of woodland in 1584, presumably to provide himself with lumber for the rebuilding or restoration of ancient manor houses. 

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 A timeline of events:
i.    In 1589 Anthony Gosnold prepared surveys for the Manors of Burgh, Cleves and Grundisburgh Hall.  Documents indicate Anthony Gosnold was in partnership with his cousin William York in the purchase of Grundisburgh Hall.   
ii.    In 1589 Anthony and Bartholomew Gosnold paid 320 pounds to certain parties who had claim on the manors of Burgh and Cleves, but the subsequent history of the manors is so obscure it is impossible to know where they stood or what specific areas they covered.  The transactions involved in their purchase got Anthony Gosnold into serious financial difficulties and involved his brother Robert as well.  These difficulties lasted well into the last decade of the century.  
iii.    In 1600 Anthony Gosnold was imprisoned in the King’s Bench Prison in Southwark “as a result of borrowing more money to pay the interest” on loans on his many properties.  His brother Robert petitioned the Court of Chancery to have the case reviewed because evidently there was more to be said on the Gosnold side of the issue, but the information ends there.  At some point Robert Gosnold appeared briefly as the lord of the manor at Grundisburgh and within three years all of Anthony Gosnold’s manors had passed into the hands of a family named Clenche.

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Anthony Gosnold lost both of his sons in Virginia
Anthony Gosnold had two sons, and according to established custom it can be inferred that Cleves, the largest of the manors would have gone to his son Bartholomew while Burgh Hall would have been passed down to the younger son Anthony.  How drastically the history of Virginia and New England might have been changed if rather than go Adventuring, Bartholomew and his brother had stayed behind in England to attend to their father’s holdings. 
 
Anthony Gosnold the father dropped out of the scene in 1609, perhaps shortly after October 26. The cause of his withdrawal is painfully obvious because within two weeks of that date a ship had arrived in London and had brought with it the news of the death of his second son, drowned in the James River.  With his eldest son Bartholomew already dead of the sickness that plagued the earliest fleet to Jamestown, his family line ended and that knowledge might also have brought to a conclusion the life of Anthony Gosnold himself. 

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Anthony Gosnold and Dorothy Bacon also had a daughter named Elizabeth and she married Thomas Tilney of Shelly Hall, located near Hadleigh in Suffolk.  He was a descendant of the great-grandfather of Ann Boleyn, and in spite of the remoteness of the connection, Queen Elizabeth still made a point to recognize the Tilney family when she made a royal visit to Shelly Hall in 1561.  Elizabeth Gosnold, as the wife of Thomas Tilney might very well have been presented at court.  

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.........4 Anthony "of Otley Hall" Gosnold b: Abt. 1530 + Dorothy Bacon
............5 Anthony Gosnold b: Abt. 1560.  The brother of Bartholomew Gosnold, went with him to Virginia.  He died in 1609, drowned in the James River on his way to Hogg Island. 

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Bartholomew Gosnold, founding father of Jamestown
Records relating to the early life of Bartholomew Gosnold are somewhat scanty.  He probably completed his education as his father and uncle had done, by studying law because two parish registers title him Magister, but in the incomplete records of Cambridge University there is nothing beyond his entry in 1587.  He married Mary Golding, the daughter of Robert Golding, a lawyer of Bury St Edmunds and Martha Judde of the powerful Judde family of Suffolk.  Their marriage is recorded as having taken place on 19 June 1595 in Latton, St Mary The Virgin, Essex, England. 

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............5 Bartholomew Gosnold b: 1572 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England, d: 1607 in Jamestown, James, Virginia, USA + Mary Golding b: 1574 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, m: 19 Jun 1595 in Latton, St Mary The Virgin, Essex, England, d: 23 Oct 1665 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
...............6 Mary Gosnold b: 1599 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 1660 in Dublin, Ireland + Richard "Lord Chancellor of Ireland" PEPYS.  

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It is interesting to note that there was a man named Captain John Golding who is mentioned briefly in the famous Diary of Samuel Pepys, a cousin of Richard Pepys.  John Golding was the Captain of the “Diamond” and Pepys records that he was killed in battle during the naval Battle of Kentish Knock in 1666.  Captain Golding or Goulding was born 27 March 1625 at St. Lawrence, Thanet, Kent, England and his parents were probably Daniel Goulding and Anne or Amie Hartlye.  He married Anne Fowler.  

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The citation in Pepys reads (p571) "To the Duke of Albemarle's where he showed me Mr. Coventry's letters, how three Dutch privateers are taken, in one whereof Evenson's son is captain.. But they have killed poor Captain Golding in the Diamond.  Two of them, one of 32 and other of 20 odd guns did stand stoutly up against her, which hath 46 at the Yarmouth, that hath 52 guns.."

............5 Elizabeth Gosnold + Thomas TILNEY

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Robert II Gosnold and Ursula Naunton
Robert II Gosnold was the uncle of Bartholomew Gosnold and the third of that name to occupy Netherhall Manor upon the death of his grandfather in 1572.  He acquired the estate because his father predeceased him.  At the age of 40 he was a man in the midst of a distinguished career, but his early life as recorded in the records of the University of Cambridge revealed that he and his two brothers who had not yet reached the age of maturity were matriculated on the same day, Michaelmas, 1550.  The three brothers are described as “sizars”, meaning they were granted an allowance and were expected to perform some sort of service.  That is not surprising since they were but three in a family of thirteen children and their father had not yet come into any inheritance from his father Robert Gosnold the elder.  

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Robert Gosnold was admitted to Gray’s Inn to study law in 1553 and his brother Anthony followed him there a year later.  In about 1559 he married Ursula Naunton, the granddaughter of the the illustrious Sir Anthony Wingfield and his wife Elizabeth Vere, the sister of John Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, upon whose death the title passed to a second cousin and the father of John the 16th Earl who married Margery Golding.  

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The family line of Ursula Naunton from Sir George de Vere
1 Sir George de Vere b: 1442, d: 1500 + Margaret STAFFORD
...2 Elizabeth de Vere + Sir Anthony Wingfield
......3 Anthony "of Sibton" Wingfield + Katherine Blennerhasset b: Abt. 1510
......3 Elizabeth Wingfield + Sir William NAUNTON
.........4 Ursula Naunton + Robert II Gosnold
............5 Robert "of Otley" Gosnold + Amy FORTH
...............6 Robet III "of Otley" Gosnold + Anne TOLEMACHE
..................7 Robert IV "of Otley" Gosnold + Dorothy Jegon
...2 Dorothy de Vere + John "3rd Baron Latimer" Neville
......3 John "Baron Latimer" Neville + Lucy SOMERSET
.........4 Lucy Neville + Sir William Cornwallis b: Abt. 1549
.........4 Dorothy Neville + Thomas "Earl of Exeter" CECIL
...2 John "14th Earl of Oxford" de Vere + Anne HOWARD

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In 1561 Robert was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, an honorable appointment for the preservation of the peace in the county and the discharge of other magisterial functions. A portrait of him, dated about 1610, portrays him as an elderly gentleman -- he was perhaps seventy-five -- of commanding character and proud mien. His influence on his great nephew was, we may assume, very great.  He died in 1615, outliving most of his sons and nephews, including his heir Robert and his nephews Bartholomew and Anthony, both dead in Virginia. 

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Robert Gosnold
Source of the image: Find a Grave 
.........4 Robert II Gosnold + Ursula Naunton
............5 Robert "of Otley" Gosnold + Amy FORTH
...............6 Robet III "of Otley" Gosnold + Anne TOLEMACHE
..................7 Robert IV "of Otley" Gosnold + Dorothy Jegon.  

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She was the daughter of John Jegon, the Bishop of Norwich.  I have found references related to Captain Peter Goulding, the supposed son of Rev. Thomas Goulding that state there was an ancestor of the family in England who was the Clerk of the Bishop of Norwich. There were two Ministers ordained by John Jegon and they were William Goulding and Bartholomew Goulding.  In his 1648 will William “the Clergyman” Goulding states that he had a brother named Bartholomew and an only son John.  Bartholomew the brother had a son named William.   

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The Gosnold and Golding connection: Joane Gosnold and her sister Katherine married Golding
From Gosnold and Bacon: "Katherine and Joan Gosnold, the daughters of Robert Gosnold of Otley by his first wife Agnes the daughter of John Hill of Ashe Bocking and the aunts of Anthony Gosnold of Grundisburgh, married respectively to Thomas Golding of Poslingford, Suffolk and John Golding of Walton Belchamp, Essex, brothers and sons of Robert (or Roger) Golding of Grays, Suffolk.  Joane Gosnold was still living in 1591 and had remarried a man named Brymeley, probably John Brymeley who appears as witness to her son's will."

......3 Joane Gosnold b: Abt. 1530 in Netherhall Manor, Otley, Suffolk, England, d: Aft. 1591 in Suffolk, England + John "of Beauchamp" Golding b: 1505 in Belchamp, Essex, England, m: When were their children born?, d: 1551 in Belchamp, Essex, England; The will of John "of Beauchamp" Golding
.........4 Roger "of Beauchamp" Golding b: Abt. 1520 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 1568 + Elizabeth REYNOLDS m: 27 Nov 1578 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
............5 John Golding
............5 Roger Golding
............5 Alice Golding + William Bulkley
............5 Ursula Golding + John STILE
............5 Catherine Golding + William DASKE
.........4 Alice Golding b: Abt. 1525 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 Ursula Golding b: Abt. 1525 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 Robert "of Beauchamp" Golding b: Abt. 1525 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England, d: 1591 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England + Elizabeth LENTON b: Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
............5 Robert "of Bury St Edmunds" Golding b: 1545 in Otley, Suffolk, England, d: 1611 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England; He was probably a second cousin of Arthur Golding An Elizab Pur p 109 + Martha Judde b: 1552, m: 01 Jun 1571 in Latton, St Mary The Virgin, Essex, England, d: 07 Dec 1614 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
...............6 Mary Golding b: 1574 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 23 Oct 1665 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England + Bartholomew Gosnold b: 1572 in Otley Hall, Suffolk, England, m: 19 Jun 1595 in Latton, St Mary The Virgin, Essex, England, d: 1607 in Jamestown, James, Virginia, USA 
..................7 Mary Gosnold b: 1599 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 1660 in Dublin, Ireland + Richard "Lord Chancellor of Ireland" PEPYS
...............6 Martha Golding b: Abt. 1577 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, d: 02 Dec 1598 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
............5 Peter Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Roger Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 William Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Elizabeth Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591 + John OGLES b: Abt. 1550
............5 Edward Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Francis Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Josias Golding b: Abt. 1550 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Sarah Golding b: Abt. 1580 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Marie Golding b: Abt. 1580 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Israel Golding b: Abt. 1580 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Richard Golding b: Abt. 1580 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591
............5 Rachel Golding b: Abt. 1580 in Essex, England, d: Aft. 1591 + Hugh JOHNSON b: Abt. 1580
.........4 Katherine Golding b: Abt. 1535 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 Thomasin Golding b: Abt. 1535 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 John Golding b: Abt. 1540 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 William Golding b: Abt. 1540 in Belchamp Walter, Essex, England
.........4 Richard "of Acton" Golding 

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Katherine Gosnold married Thomas Golding
......3 Katherine Gosnold + Thomas "of Poslingford" Golding b: Abt. 1490, m: Abt. 1510, d: 1575 in Suffolk, England
.........4 Joane Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Bef. 1575 in Suffolk, England; Her husband Ward is named in the will of Thomas of Poslingford Golding, Joane deceased + John WARD b: Abt. 1510
.........4 Alice Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Aft. 1575 + Unknown DERICK b: Abt. 1510 + Edward Byke d: Bef. 1575
.........4 Henry Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Aft. 1575
.........4 Rose Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Bef. 1575 in Suffolk, England + Unknown Gridley b: Abt. 1510
.........4 Thomazin Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Bef. 1575 in Suffolk, England + John STRUTT m: Bef. 1575 ; They had 4 children: Margaret, Margery, Matthew and Grace
.........4 Anne Golding b: Abt. 1510, d: Aft. 1575 + Thomas WARNER
.........4 Roger Golding b: Abt. 1520, d: Aft. 1575
.........4 George "of Poslingford" Golding b: 1540 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England, d: 20 Nov 1584 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England + Eleanor Gray b: Abt. 1510, m: 1560 in Suffolk, England
............5 Thomas Golding b: Abt. 1565 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England, d: 1652 in Newhouse, Poslingford, Suffolk, England; His will was dated Sept. 1, 1652 + Frances BEDINGFIELD m: 1626, d: 1647
............5 Henry II "of Gray's Inn" Golding d: 1593
.........4 Thomas II "of Poslingford" Golding b: Abt. 1560 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England, d: Aft. 1577 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England; He is named in the Visitation of Essex 1577 + Frances Gill b: Abt. 1510, m: Abt. 1559 in Suffolk, England; Their children
............5 Thomas Golding b: 1582 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England
............5 Elizabeth Golding b: 1584 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England
............5 Frances Golding b: 1586 in Poslingford, Suffolk, England
............5 Henry "of Letcombe Regis" Golding b: 1602 in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England, d: 1662 + Elizabeth Baker
...............6 Henry II "of Letcombe Regis" Golding b: 1629 in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England, d: 1662 in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England + Mary HUTT b: 1640 in Grove, Berkshire, England
..................7 Elizabeth Golding b: 01 Jul 1662 in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England, d: 1729 in West Nottingham, Cecil, Maryland, USA + Hugh SIDWELL
..................7 Henry Golding b: 01 Nov 1667 in Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England + Mary Barnardiston m: Abt. 1589 in Suffolk, England; Their children +Susan Crimble

Source: Visitations of Suffolk 1612 (Hervey, 1882)

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Christian Gosnold and James Ryvett
The will of Christian Ryvett is from Gosnold and Bacon

Will of Christian Ryvett of Witnesham, Suffolk, Widow.  Dated 3 Feb 1587/8.  She names Ursula Ryvett her grandchild, daughter of Robert her son.  Robert, Katherine and Rose Ryvett her grandchildren, the children of Robert her son.  Rachel Stiles her daughter wife of Edmund Stiles.  John, Edmond, Rachel, Rose, Alice and Anne Stiles.  Daughter Alice Daynes, wife of John Daynes.  Daughter Margaret Scrutton, wife of Samuel Scrutton.  Names others including James Ryvett her husband.  

......3 Christian Gosnold b: Abt. 1530 + James RYVETT b: Abt. 1530 in Witnesham, Suffolk, England
.........4 Alice Ryvett b: Abt. 1560 + John DAINES b: Abt. 1560
.........4 Robert Ryvett + [unknown spouse]
............5 James Ryvett

......3 John "of Shryblond" Gosnold d: Abt. 1554 + Katherine Blennerhasset b: Abt. 1510

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Will of JOHN GOSNOLD of Shrylblond, Suffolk, England  
This will is undated.  John Gosnold of Shrylblonde was the son and heir of Robert Gosnold of Otley by his wife Agnes, daughter of John Hill of Ashe, Esq.  He married Katherine, fifth daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhasset of Barham, Knt but had no issue by her, dying before his father.  She married second, Anthony Wingfield of Sibton, fourth son of Sir Anthony Wingfield of Sibton, fourth son of Sir Anthony Wingfield, K.G. and left issue.  This SIR ANTHONY was cousin to THOMAS MARIA WINGFIELD, the father of EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD, the first Governor of Virginia.  

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......3 George "the Adventurer" Gosnold
The Will of George Gosnold is found on page 7 of Gosnold and Bacon; The Ancestry of Bartholomew Gosnold, a Collection by Henry Lea, Printed in Boston, Press of David Clapp & Son, 1904.  

"To my nephew George Gosnold, son of my brother Lambert Gosnold, deceased, L300 at 22 years to be put forth in stock or adventures form him in his Voyages at sea and I do give my niece his sister Katherine Gosnold L50.  Also named in this will were Anne Wenham, wife of William Wenham of Dorking, Surrey and their children Roger, Abigail, Gabriell, Martha, Bethsheba and Francis.  Sir John Brown of Lincolnshire, niece Katherine Clark daughter of his siter in Kent.  Brother and sister-in-law Thomas Moore and Elizabeth his wife, friend MR. RICHARD WASHINGTON, servants Oliver Hently, Henry Leppington, Joane Armstrong and THOMAS PRICE.” (Lea, 1902, p. 10) 

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