When Nina L. Gossett was born in 1926, in Tennessee, United States, her father, John Thomas Gossett, was 21 and her mother, Annie R. Reivley, was 20. She lived in Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 3, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 24 December 2020, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.
English (Middlesex and Surrey; at least in part of French Huguenot origin): variant of Gosset .
Altered form of French, Walloon, and Channel Islands (Jersey; of French Huguenot origin) Gosset , reflecting the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
History: The majority of the American bearers of the surname Gossett are descendants of Jean Gosset, a Huguenot from Normandy, who fled to the isle of Jersey in 1685. The surname was brought to North America in the middle of the 18th century from Jersey by John and Peter Gosset(t), grandsons of Jean Gosset.
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