Brief Life History of William
When William Gooch Jr. was born in 1707, in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir William Gooch 1st Baronet, was 26 and his mother, Lady Rebecca Staunton, was 22. He married Eleanor Bowles about 1740, in Virginia, United States. He died on 17 October 1742, in York, Virginia, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Yorktown, York, Virginia, United States.
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- 1739 Marriage of William ARMISTEAD and Mary BOWLES
- Pedigrees of Suffolk, Gooch of Benacre William Gooch
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English (East Anglia): from the rare Middle English personal name Goche (also found as Joche). It was current in East Anglia from the early 12th to the early 13th centuries as a variant of Anglo-Norman French Go(s)ce, Jo(s)ce, a pet form of Old French Goscelin.
English: alternatively, a nickname from Anglo-Norman French gouge (from Latin gobio), the nominative form of Old French goujon (from Latin gobionem) ‘gudgeon’, perhaps for a gullible person.
Welsh: in southwestern England, possibly an Anglicized form of Welsh coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’, though the sound change is irregular. Compare Gough . It may also be a variant of Cornish and Welsh Couch , with the same meaning.
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