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Robert Gosnold
(1490-1572)
Agnes Hill
(-)
Robert Vesey
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Robert Gosnold, II
(1512-1559)
Mary Vesey
(1516-)

Robert Gosnold, III, Esquire
(1534-Bef 1615)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Ursula Naunton

Robert Gosnold, III, Esquire 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 1534, Suffolk, England 1 2 6
  • Marriage: Ursula Naunton in 1559 1 2
  • Died: Bef Nov 1615, Suffolk, England 3

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Justice of the Peace: Suffolk, England. 1 2

• Will, 15 Aug 1615. 1 2 On 15 Aug 1615 he signed a will. It reads in part as follows: "Robert Gosnold of Earleshall, County Suffolk, Esq. To be buried at Otley near my wife. To Elizabeth Keene, my daughter the wife of Thomas Keene, 8 pounds a year. To my son Antony Gosnold my house in Swillon called Eales. To my son Thomas Gosnold 200 pounds....To Henry Keene my grandchild, 20 pounds... "

Executors; son Anthony and Mr. Francis Cornwallis of Earleshall.

• Will Proved, 1 Nov 1615. 1 2 5 Robert Gosnold died prior to November 1, 1615, when his will was recorded, naming grandson Anthony Gosnold "now in Virginia" and also grandsons Henry and Thomas Keene (who would have still been in England - ed.).


Robert married Ursula Naunton, daughter of William Naunton and Elizabeth Wingfield, in 1559.1 2 (Ursula Naunton was born about 1545 in Otley, Suffolk, England 1 2 6 and died before Aug 1615 in Otley, Suffolk, England 1 2 6.)


Sources


1 Chris Gosnell, Gosnell Genealogy (Online at Gosnell Genealogy). Surety: 3

2 Harleian Society, Visitation of Suffolk. Repository: Chris Gosnell. Surety: 3

3 Ann Garner, Garner Family History (Online at Garner Family History). Repository: Our Early Families. Surety: 3

4 Ruth Ritchie & Sudie Rucker Wood, The Garner-Keene Families of Northern Neck Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia: Jarman Publishing Company, 1952). Surety: 3

5 John Casper Branner, Casper Branner of Virginia and his Descendants (Standford University, California: Privately Published, 1913). Surety: 3

6 Wingfield Family Society, Descendants of Robert de Wingfield (Online at Wingfield Family Society). Surety: 3


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