Brief Life History of George Ira
When George Ira Gosnell was born on 3 September 1866, in Glassy, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, his father, William Matthew Gosnell, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Green, was 24. He married Nettie Ann Atkins about 1887, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in O'Neal, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1920. He died on 15 November 1938, in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 72.
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- G I Gosnell, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: George I. Gosnell - Government record: birth-name: George I. Gosnell
- George I. Gosnell, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
Spouse and Children
1866–1938 Male
1869–1933 Female
Children (9)
1888–1922 Male
1890–1961 Female
1892–1915 Female
1894–1939 Male
1897–1947 Male
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1837–1906 Male
1842–1908 Female
Siblings (11)
1862– Female
1866–1938 Male
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1871–1903 Female
1873–1932 Male
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Name Meaning
English:
perhaps a habitational name from Goss Hall, in Ash, Kent, recorded as Gosehale in 1210–12 and as Gosenhale (in a surname) in 1230. It may have denoted ‘Gosa's nook of land’ (Old English Gōsa, genitive singular Gōsan + halh, dative singular hale). By the early 1200s a member of this Kent family had apparently acquired property in Fritton, Suffolk, where the surname subsequently ramified in the later medieval and early modern periods.
apparently a habitational name from Gonsal, in Condover, Shropshire, but the place name is recorded in medieval documents only as a manorial surname (de Gosenhull) and it is possible that the place was named after a 13th-century owner who came from elsewhere. On heraldic grounds the Shrops family has been tentatively identified with the Suffolk/Kent family in 1 above. The early spellings of the Shrops name, however, consistently point to a derivation from Old English hyll ‘hill ’, thus ‘Gosa's hill’, not ‘Gosa' s nook of land’. While the possibility cannot be ruled out that Gosenhull was a local re-interpretation of Gosenhale, the linguistic and the heraldic evidence are not easily reconciled.
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