Goldsbury,
Goldsborough, Goldisborough, Goldsbrough, Gouldsbury, Goldsberry, Gouldsberry
etc -Family History Genealogy Research.
This
list of family history and genealogy research people maintained and hosted by
Peter Goldsbury, 20 Hastings Parade, Auckland, New Zealand. If you have
significant early family history information or links to the Goldsborough
village in Yorkshire, London, or Ipswich
/ Woodbridge (see
museum too) in Sussex and wish your name or information to be added or
amended, please contact me pgoldsbury@stratex.co.nz
See
our family page http://users.iconz.co.nz/stratex/family.htm
for our name it’s origins,
legends
and stories
Another
Golds-etc researcher from US list to check out: http://members.tripod.com/marieram/goldsmisc.html
Check
out the genealogy forums http://genforum.genealogy.com/goldsberry http://genforum.genealogy.com/goldsborough and also http://memory.loc.govt
Perhaps
its worth searching all the research sites
(www.rootsweb.com and
www.familysearch.com) and
compiling a list of the earliest ten names of each variation in spelling , then
see who can trace back to a connection to each of them.
Early
Goldsborough family Roots >> THE
BOOK!!
As far as the
origins of the Goldsbury, Goldesborough , Goldsberry, Goldbough
Gouldsbury
and many other derivations of the name , a book worth reading can be found at
http://www.quintinpublications.com/familygenealogies_gled.html It is well worthwhile buying as it gives a
very good perspective of the origin of the name and traces the various
family groups on England back to where records become hard to find. The
original was published about 1934
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Memorials of the Goldesborough Family., Goldesborough, Albert.,
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Researchers
who have contacted me:
_GOLDSBURY – Peter_Goldsbury, Auckland, New
Zealand pgoldsbury@stratex.co.nz Me
for the record. I am particularly interested in the connection between the Goldsborough
origins in Yorkshire, Quaker links, and the emergence of the name Goldsbury /
Newbury in Ipswich / Woodbridge,
England, where our proven records start with Samuel Goldsbury b
???, m. 13 Mar 1674 to Lydia Cornelius, d. 18 Oct 1725 in Ipswich / Woodbridge.
A key to this
may be one Captain John Goldsborough of
the East
India Company, (possibly born Jan 3 1635-36in London – died Fort St George,
(Madras) India 1694. The “Diary of
William Hedges” (edited by Col Henry Yule for the Hakluyt Society vol II pp
clv-clx, cxciv) records the following:
He was captain of the East India Company ships
“Falcon” and “Bengala Merchant” before 1691.
He was knighted on 8th Feb 1691-2.
The Captain was appointed Supervisor, Commisionary General, Commander in
Chief in East India later in Feb 1691-2.
He probably married Mary Smith in 1675–6, who in 1695 then married Roger
Braddyl the troublesome member of Governor Pitt’s Council in Fort St George,
(Madras) India. Does anyone have
any information on this Captain, these ships, and the East India Company
involvement with Fort St George?
See my family
page for the
Yorkshire origins of our name and Quaker / Ipswich / NZ connections.
_GOLDSBURY – Elwyn_Goldsbury, Wellington, New Zealand elwyng@ihug.co.nz is also from Alfred Goldsbury who arrived
with his family and that of his brother George Fredrick from Ipswich / Woodbridge in England on the
ship Ben Novis on Jan 11 1880. He has
meticulously composed a computerised family tree covering all the NZ branches
of the family from Quaker and other records back to Ipswich in England. He
writes:
“With Our Branch our defined and proven line goes back to two brothers living in Ipswich England who appear in records about 1674 - SAMUEL and LAWRENCE GOLDSBURY. They would have been born about 1650 and various records use a variation in spelling of their names GOLDSBURY GOLDSBOROUGH GOLDSBERRY etc The spelling of names can change back and forth over the centuries. The mid 1600's is also about the time when records become more difficult to find - if they existed at all. Our lot were perhaps at that time living in the LONDON area and thus their families could have been impacted by the plague in 1664-5 and the great fire in 1666 which is another event that caused records not to be well kept”.
Elwyn Administers
the Goldsberry forum at http://genforum.genealogy.com/goldsberry
_GOLDSBURY – Simon Arnold, Wellington, New
Zealand mailto:simon.arnold@arnold.co.nz
Apart
from a photo, the main vestige of Alfred in my life is an old clock that came
from my mum with the inscription “Given to Alfred Goldsbury by the teachers of
Ipswich Ragged School on the occasion of his marriage May 11 1876”.
_GOLDSBURY -
Philip_Goldsbury, Taupo, New
Zealand goldmine@xtra.co.nz from the George Fredrick branch in Auckland,
NZ.
_GOLDSBURY - Judith
Bingham, Ca, USA pickleweek03@yahoo.com has traced her roots to John Goldsbury born 1700 who married Eunice Pond in
Wrentham Massachusetts .21 June 1727 One of their sons was Samuel Goldsbury
1743-1815 the Loyalist.(see http://www.mytrees.com/) She wants to find our where John came
from, and how he arrived seemingly unaccompanied at the age of 10-12 years old,
how he financed his purchases in the USA and more about Eunice Pond.
_GOLDSBURY, _GOLDSBOROUGH - Donald Bryant, Kent
County, Michigan USA bryant@iserv.net has
researched the Pond family which has links back to John Goldsbury (above). He also records the arrival of John
Goldsborough, gardener aged 24 who arrived from Surrey on board “Love and Unity”
to Maryland as an indentured servant.
(See also http://www.iserv.net/~bryant/html/don/d0/i0011906.htm)
_GOLDSBURY - Fred Morris,
Australia fred_morris@yahoo.com who also
traces his ancestry back to John and Eunice in the USA (above) through son
Samuel b 1740 = Rhonda Partridge, grandson Christopher (Died in India), great
grandson Samuel d 1890 Cape Colony South Africa, and hence to Australia.
_GOLDSBURY – JESSUP -
PECKOVER - PHILLIP FORD - Neil
Goodchild neil.godchild@lineone.net is researching the history of Theberton
Grange which was owned by the Jessup family.
In April 1753 Jane Jessup (1731-1796) of Theberton married Richard
Peckover (1730-1757) of Fakenham at the Woodbridge Quaker Meeting House and her
estates passed to the Peckover family.
It seems John Goldsbury (1738-1819) inherited the Theberton Estate on
his Marriage to Anne Peckover ( –1762) (This
John was the largest contributor to the Friends meeting at Woodbridge and also
is reputed to have acquired much landed property in the US by heirship but
never claimed it . Was this the State of Pennsylvania claimed by
his great grandfather Phillip Ford as the agent of William Penn??)
_GOLDSBURY – BENTLEY
– Jeff Thompson, Mechanicsburg, Pa
USA ManlyJRT@aol.com traces
the Bentley family back to Thomas Fuller Bentley who married Mary Ann Goldsbury
in Ipswich on 8th Sept 1829.
He died in 1852 and is buried in the Friends Graveyard in Ipswich. The
Benleys left Ackworth, Woodbridge, Ulverston for the US in 1877/78. They have records that indicate that a G was
in the employ of Anne Boelyn
before she was executed in 1536 and that an embroidered cloth was passed on
through the family as “The Queen’s Cloth”
_GOLDSBURY – GOSTLING -
Paul Worth, Australia kwaussie@one.net.au Born in Auckland on 7th March 1971 he traces his family back to William
Gostling who married Sarah Goldsbury in St Peters Church Ipswich on 9th
June 1889.
_GOLDSBURY (WILLIAM
RILEY / MACK) - Jessica Johnson
Wasilla, mailto:Alaska
alaska81482@hotmail.com traces her family directly back to William Riley
Goldsbury who married Mary Ann Blackburn a Cherokee Indian, through one of
their sons William Mack b Dec 31 1824 who married March 16 1875 in Ray County
Missouri to Sultana Jane Mosely (daughter of King Moseley and Elizabeth
Rogers) and died Dec 31 1943 in Major
County Oklohoma.
(Perhaps Mack Goldsbury the Jazz musician is related to this branch?? http://www.timescraper.de/jazz/TSCR9615.html)
_GOLDSBOROUGH
– Jan Eardley, USA jte@iwc.net
and cousin Pat_Goldsborough Napier dmnapier@swbell.net who trace their line back to Mack/Mark Harmon
Goldsborough (abt 1739-1838) born MD a Rev. war soldier who enlisted in Annapolis.
He married Jane Duke in Louisa County in VA.
They want to trace the origins of Mack.
The family migrated from MD to Lousa Co VA then eventually (through
missing years 1797 – 1809) to Garrard Co KY. From
here the family moved to IN in 1830 (Jefferson
Co, Decantur Co, Boone Co., Fayette Co.)
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Stan D
Goldsborough, Maryland, USA. sdgoldsborough@verizon.net. Traces his
family back to Nicholas Goldsborough born in 1640 at Malcolm Regis, Dorset,
England and came to Maryland USA in 1670.
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Bill
Cline US. WCline8218@aol.com Traces his maternal grandmother (a
Goldsborough) back several generations to Maryland. Is looking for a copy of the book/manuscript that he has a few
pages of: "The House of Goldsborough" by Eleonora Goldsborough
(Winter) Goldsborough written in 1932. Probably not published, but exists
as thousands of typewritten pages. The Mormon Library has it on
Microfilm.
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Brian
Boehme, US
nedflanders99@yahoo.com
Has information on Goldsboroughs descending from Nicholas Goldsborough
(See below) which he traces further back to 10th century in
Yorkshire. See website http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/e/Brian--Boehme/GENE2-0001.html?Welcome=998197928
_GOLDSBOROUGH – a family member in Southern California states
“In my family, there's some dispute as to the
origin of the Goldsborough clan. One has it that the progenitors were Normans,
the other that they were Saxons. I tend toward
the former. The Norman
theory has it that the family name was taken from the name of the town of
Goldsborough in Yorkshire. Actually there are two towns of that name in
Yorkshire. The one just south of Knaresborough was recorded in the Doomsday
Book as Godenesburg, and this is Saxon, presumably, meaning "the place of
Gods." However the late rector of Goldsborough considered the meaning to
be "the fortification of Godwin," this refers to either the father of
King Harold or some other. In 1169, the name was written Godelesburc; in 1310
Goddelesburg and then Goldesburgh. Some believe the original name was
Godhelmsburg, meaning "the fortress or manor house of Godhelm. In time
this name contracted to Godlesburg and later Goldesburgh, before it ultimately
settled into Goldsborough. My name
is Goldsborough. But that wasn't the original name of the Goldsboroughs. The
manor house I spoke of came into the possession of the deVeseys, Normans,
somewhere in the reign of Henry II. Richard, a descendent of the the first occupying deVesey took for himself
the name of the town, which at the time was Goldsburgh and became Richard de
Goldsburgh. This knight accompanied Edward I into Scotland in 1298 to aid in
the suppression of the revolt by William Wallace. He died in 1308 and his
effigy rests on his tomb in the rectory at Goldsborough. There's more to the
deVesey/Goldsborough story. I just don't know the specifics of when or how the
name changed to Goldsborough.
Now for the Saxon argument. I should say Anglo-Saxon.
Historians tend to lump Saxon, Angels and Jutes together under the Saxon
banner. Incidentally, the name England is contracted from the name Angeland.
Ok, so when Aethelwold, King of Wessex (circa ninth century), lay dying, he
grieved for his little daughter, Princess Goldborough soon to be an orphan. So
Aethelwold summoned a council at Winchester to ask the advice of the nobles,
who thereupon unanimously recommended Earl Godrich of Cornwall to be made
regent for the infant princess. On being appointed , Godrich swore to the king
that he would care for the princess and would marry her at twelve years old to
the highest, the best, the fairest and strongest man alive. Princess
Goldborough grew and throve in all ways under his tutelage, but having a taste
of power, Godrich schemed to secure the kingdom for himself alone. He had
Princess Goldborough taken from Winchester to Dover, where she was imprisoned,
strickly secluded from everyone.
Meanwhile in Denmark, Havelok, the heir to
the throne of King Birkabeyn, came under the influence of Jarl Godard upon the
death of the king. Godard, a one-time trusted counsellor to the king, swore to
the dying monarch he would care for the king's children until Havelok was old
enough to ascend the throne. But, like Godrich, he conspired to take the throne
for himself and had the royal children, two infant girls and Havelok,
imprisoned in a strong castle and assumed the role of ruler. But it wasn't
enough to just imprison Havelok, so Gadard entrapped his thrall, Grim, into a
conspiracy to murder Havelok. Grim, being a fisherman, was ordered by Godard to
"take the boy secretly to thy house and keep him there till dead of night;
then launch thy boat, row out to sea, and fling the boy therein with an anchor
round his neck, so that I shall never see him again." Well Grim, being the
good fellow that he was, didn't do that.
The short of this long, mythical legend is
that Havelock and the princess escaped their respective bondage. Havelok makes
his escape to England, meets and marries Princess Goldborogh, and
overthrows the two tyrants, and they thereby both become the rulers of both
England and Denmark.
This story can be read in M.I. Ebbutt's
THE BRITISH, Myths and Legends, published in 1986 by Bracken Books, a Division
of Studio Editions, Ltd., located at Princess House, 50 Eastcastle Street,
London WIN 7AP, England see also http://users.iconz.co.nz/stratex/family.htm
_GOLDSBOROUGH - Paul Ruddick, North Yorkshire, UK . Maddigan30497676@aol.com His
father’s mother was a Goldsborough and the family farmed near Craythorn, Hutton
Rugby in north Yorkshire. Members of the family still live there. The Goldsborough family tree can be traced
back to John Brown of North Yorkshire, the famous soldier who fought in the
American war of independence, during which he was wounded and returned to
England and received a sword of recognition from the king.. (Is this http://www.brownfamily.org/genealogy/_GENRESEARCH/00000116.htm
?)
GOULDSBERRY, GOLDSBERRY -
Marilyn Goldsberry, Hilliard, Ohio m.goldsberry@worldnet.att.net. Traces
her line back via Hastings
B. Gouldsberry whose father was Hastings H. Gouldsberry of Reinersville, Ohio
but cannot find out who his father was. We believe it to be Sylvanus
Gouldsberry(Goldsbury) and other different spellings. Sylvanus father
was John Goldsberry of Barre, VT. One of
her cousins has information on John Goldsbury from England who was a founding
father of Barre Vermont (Which went by another name in the late 1700’s). He was a Universalist Minister in Barre. The Barre Historical Society has a number of
Goldsburys items on display. See also http://www.aldrich.lib.vt.us/GUIDE.HTM#p41
see City of Goldsboro,
N Carolina http://www.goldsboro.com/history.htm
GOLDSBERRY - Linda Goldsberry , Indiana, mailto:lamoose@netusa1.net has Indiana family records back to
Thomas Goldsberry b. May 03 1767, d. Aug 09 1840 in Lafayette, Indiana. He married Mary Putnam, who was born in 1772
in Hampshire County VA.
_GOLDSBERRY - Emerson Goldsberry , mailto:E.Goldsberry@domaintechnologies.com has traced his family
back to Jonathon Goldsbury who was in Montgomery County MD USA in 1790.
GOLDSBERRY - Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Rose Goldsbury Mitchell, mailto:toberighteous@msn.com is Afro-American and is tryng
to find where her family links in; perhaps via slavery. She says her father
and his siblings were of fair complexion with light brown eyes and straight
to wavy hair. They had straight noses and thin lips unlike most people of
African descent.
_GOLDSBARY – Betty Gilbert, Arlngton, Washington mailto:bettyray@maxxconnect.net Has traced her family tree as far back to Sylvanus
Goldsberry all that I know about my gggrandfather Sylvanus Goldsberry was that
he was born 22May 1769 and was the father of my gg grandfather John B
Goldsberry .The father of my grandfather Alexander Mourice Goldsberry and he
was the father of my father Truman StClair Goldsbary. It was my
grandfather Alexander who changed the spelling from Goldsberry to Goldsbary My
last name is Gilbert . I am trying to fine more information about Sylvanus
Goldsberry.
GOLDSBARY –
GOLDSBERRY W.A. Luke Lucas WlbrLklc@aol.com My mother was a Goldsbary, who's father was Guy
Orin Goldsbary, son of Maurice Alexander Goldsbary, whose father was John B.
Goldsbary married to Permelia White,
supposedly from Barre, Vermont.
_GOLDSBOROUGH - Lynn Smith, US Lynn4604@aol.com Looking for information on John Goldsborough
born about 1825 in MD, died Nov 1884 in Queen Annes Co MD, who married Emaline
Gardiner and had daughter Mary E born March 1851.
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Angela
Green, Australia angles1@iprimus.com.au Her husband’s
great great Grandfather, Samuel Goldsborough arrived in Sydney with his wife
Margaret and 4 year old son Robert on the ship Beejapore in 1853. Margaret
later died and is buried at the quarantine station at Manly. His second wife was Louisa Henderson from
which their family come.
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Christine
Higgs, Australia higgs@bigpond.net.au She has traced her husbands line back to
Samuel Goldsborough who imigrated to Austaralia from Little Osborne in
Yorkshire (near Goldsborough Village)
_GOLDSBOROUGH – Noel
Durham ndurham@jps.net His grandmother was a Goldsborough and he has just taken over
administration of the GEDCOM Goldsborough surname forum http://genforum.genealogy.com/goldsborough He
is interested in the Maryland family history which started with Nicholas
Goldsborough.
Nicholas (1640 - 1670) was born and
grew up at Melcome Regis,Weymouth County, (Dorsett County?) near Dewey,
England. He emigrated
to Kent Island, Maryland in 1669 when he was 29 years old. In 1659, he married Margaret Howes (no dates
are shown for her) of Newbury,
Berks, England. They had three
children: Robert, Nicholas, and Judith.
Robert (Goldsborough) of Ashby wrote
on 20th August, 1722: "A memorial for the use of my children--My father
Nicholas Gouldesburgh, or Goldsborough was a younger brother, he was born at
Melcolm Regis nearWaymouth in the county of Dorset in or about 1640 or
1641. My
mother was the sole daughter of
Abraham Howes, the son of William Howes of Newberry in the County of Berks. .
.My father went from England to Barbadoes in 1669 from thence he came to New
England and from thence to Maryland . In the beginning of the year 1670 he
died on Kent Island and was there
buried on Tobias Wells plantation. I came into Maryland in the beginning of the
year 1678. I was marryed
to Elizabeth Greenberry Sept. 2nd
1697. My mother came into Maryland in
the beginning of the year 1670. She
here intermarried with George
Robins." [The
Robert who owned Myrtle Grove was this Robert's son not Nicholas' son.]
_GOLDSBROUGH – Den Goldsbrough,
Isle of Arran, UK mailto:Den@arran471.freeserve.co.uk
Is from Yorkshire and traces his ancestors back to a William
Goldsbrough. He has been contacted by a
man in Illinois who has evidence that suggests this William was raising a
family both in America and in Yorkshire.
_GOLDSBOROUGH, GOLDSBERRY,
forwarded of web contact unknown. Her husbands father and
grandfather were both Frederick Goldsborough’s. The grandfather (POP) b 6-28-1900 d. 1 1987 married a Loretta
Prieser and had 5 children, Before POP died he told her his family was
Irish–English from Maryland, that his grandfather Patrick GALLAGHER married a
DONAHUE. And that his mother was a RYAN. She is trying to trace back from POP
lived in the New York and Vermont area for years. Her uncle tells that POP may
have worked at Alcatraz at one stage and sons Frederick and Walter were sent to
a work camp as teenagers to raise money for the family.
GOLDSBURY, GAZZARD, NIOA – Dona Kerns, California , US Kernsdona@aol.co and Rowena
Heat mailto:rowheat@madasafish.com and Robert Noia Australia r.nioa@nioa.net.au Dona’s grandmother
was Elizabeth Gazzard - Nioa who arrived on the ship “Ontario” with her cousins
Henry, Sophia, Ann and Sarah. Ann
and Sara both married Goldsburys. Elizabeth
went to Australia in 1854. Elizabeth’s
brother Jesse Gazzard went to New Zealand with two daughters in 1874 on the
“Douglas”. Dona has links to both GAZZARD and NIOA researchers.
See also http://www.geocities.com/merinotech2000/famhis/Gazzard/gazzard1.htm
GOULDSBURY
- Siobhan Gouldsbury, 16 Ashfield Rise, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, Ireland. mailto:sgouldsbury@sigma.ie Her family is derived from one Richard Talbot
Goldsbury who arrived from Yorkshire and was Killed in the siege of Limerick in
1688.
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