When William David Gossett was born on 6 November 1945, in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States, his father, Ray Winford Gossett, was 24 and his mother, Gladys Alice Stutts, was 25. He died on 26 October 2012, in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Birdeye, Cross, Arkansas, 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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