tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43653410130432114742011-12-19T18:56:44.704-06:00Assisting One Another in Our Genealogical ResearchLyn Perryhttps://profiles.google.com/116036377516364791534noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365341013043211474.post-52880303071935501722008-11-30T23:00:00.000-06:002011-12-18T19:17:21.501-06:00

Yes, we're distant cousins! I'm fairly convinced all Gorslines in the US and Canada are related, finding our common ancestor in Jacob Gosselin, father of Josse whose 13 children all have the last name of Gorsline. How did I find all this out? The Gorsline Family Chart is a database (about 2'x3' typewritten family tree) compiled in 1942 by Samuel Gilbert Gorsline of Battle Creek, Michigan. It

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Gorsline was Originally Gosselin A Name of French Origin Gosselin (but also found as Gozelin, Goselin, Goslin) reflects accurately the spelling used by the early generations of our family. One will also find variations of the Gorsline name adopted by later generations including Gosline, Gorsaline and Gorssline. Source: Gorsline Family Chart, 1942 compiled by Samuel Gilbert Gorsline, (General

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Jacob Gosselin marries Martha Chauval Probably in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1623 Both Jacob and Martha's date of birth is conjectured to be about 1600. The Gorsline Family Chart indicates that Jacob fled France, presumably as a child with his family, in 1609, although Reaman suggests it was 1620 (Trail of the Huguenots, p. 224). Reaman mentions that Jacob and Martha had four children, although

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Source: The Trail of the Huguenots by George Elmore Reaman Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966 pages 224, 225 ~*~ The Gosselin Family came from Dieppe, France, where Jacob G. and his wife Martha Chauvel lived and were members of the Reformed Protestant Religion. About 1620 they fled to Holland where they became members of the French Protestant Church in Amsterdam (L'Eglise Wallone d'Amsterdam).

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Source: Huguenot Emigration to America, Vol 2 by Charles W. Baird Regional Publishing, 1966 pages 74, 75 ~*~ . . . and Jacob Gosselin, came to New York.8 8 "Nom originaire de la Normandie." - (Le Protestantisme en Normandie, p. 18.) "Etienne Gozelin, de Rouen, mis a la chaine, 1684." - (Id.) Jacob and Marie Madeleine Gosselin were members of the French Church in Threadneedle Street, London,

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Source: Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte by William F.E. Morley Mika Publishing Co., Belleville, Ontario, 1983 pages 359-362 ~*~ The Gorssline Family John Gorssline, born on Long Island, New York, in 1769, was of Dutch descent, his father having been born in Holland. There is a tradition in the family (of which, however, only the outline had been retained), of a dramatic, even tragic

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The Family Crest as it appears in FIGURES D'HIER ET D'AUJOURD'HUI À TRAVERS ST-LAURENT, ÎLE D'ORLÉANS ("Portaits of Yesterday and Today Throughout St-Laurent, Island of Orleans"), a 300 page family history of the "Canadian Origin of the Gosselins in America" written by Canon David Gosselin in 1919. (Source: Tim Gosselin's Website. A 1979 reprint of the French edition and a 1987 English

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