The Gosnold Family

? Gosnold

of Otley, Suffolk, England

Children:

  • Henry Gosnold
  • Robert Gosnold

    • Notes: This ancestor is tentatively identified as John Gosnold, married to Katherine Kinnellmarsh.



    Robert Gosnold

    Title: Captain

    Birth: in Suffolk, England

    Father: ? Gosnold

    Death: 1636, in Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland

    Notes:
    Robert served Britain in Flanders, the Palatinate, France and Ireland "for many years" (about 1601) after which he was given 1000 acres of land at Ossory in Southwest Leinster by James I. According to a complaint made years later by his grandson, Hanworth Fitch, the son of Thomas Fitch who was the governor of the Tower of London, this land was taken away from Robert without full compensation soon after he received it, and was regranted.

    Robert's wife's family was that of Gray.

    Robert died intestate at Lifford, County Donegal with administration granted to Richard Perkins on November 16, 1636.

    Sources:

  • CARNEY genealogy by Don Carney, who references John C. Collins of Cork.
  • Admon Calendar of State Papers Ireland, 1596-97 edited by Ernest George Atkinson of the Public Record Office, 1893 vol C X C p166

    • Henry Gosnold

    Birth: before 1566 in Suffolk, England

    Father: ? Gosnold

    Married (1st): to Willgiford _____

    Death: 1658

    Notes:
    Henry matriculated at Cambridge (Trinity) in the Easter Term of 1577. A note at the bottom of Metcalfe's edition of the Vistations reads "Henry Gosnold, admitted to Gray's Inn, 3 Nov. 1851 from Staples Inn". He remained there as a lawyer until at least 1593. Henry wrote later about a poition he held in the Court of Marshalsea in Sothwark, London, which was presumably during this period.

    In 1596 he was sent to Ireland in the foreign service of the British crown. He was the Queen's Attorney General for Munster. From 1599 to 1602, he was secretary to the Earl of Essex and from 1602 to 1610 he was second Justice of Munster, and sat on a commission to divide County Cork in 1606.

    On 6 October 1610 Henry and Willgiford leased a chantry house and garden adjoining the church yard in Youghal, together with two plowlands of Curraghaddy and Yellowford, for 41 years from Sir Richard Boyle. In 1611, he was Burgess for the town of Bandon. In 1613 he became the Member of Parliament for Clonakilty in County Cork and resided in West Cork. At this point he is listed as about 50 years old. Henry owed his parliamentary seat to the Earl of Cork, patron of Youghal. From 1625 to 1646 or later he was Chief Justice for Munster, and was granted the freedom of the city in 1632. In addition, he was, from 1633 to 1634, Judge of the Vice-Admiralty of Munster. During this period he also served as the Recorder of Youghal. In 1643 he was in Elizabeth Port, County Cork. In 1646 he petitioned the Committee of Lords and Commons for salary arrears which he, then "four score years old" and "having lost his whole estate by the rebels", needed help "to pay for five years' diet for himself and his great family". In response, the committee authorized payment to Thomas Muschamp, a merchant in London, of £150 pounds for Gosnold.

    Sources:

  • CARNEY genealogy by Don Carney, who references John C. Collins of Cork.
  • 1610 lease Indenture of a lease dated 24 October 1627 from the Earl of Cork to Sir William Fenton, in the Rental Booke for the Right Honourable Sir Richard Boyle Knight, Ld. Dongaruan, page 82, recites details of a previous lease from Boyle to Henry Gosnold. This book is in the National Library of Ireland at Dublin. Another refernece is in the Lismore papers, 1st series volume 2, page 229, by Grossart) which quotes Boyle as referring to "the graunt I made Justice Gosnold and his first wife, of the chantrie howse & garden adjoyning vnto the church yard in Yoghall".
  • Chief Justice A list of Chief justices for Munster is included in the Patantee Officers in Ireland 1173 - 1826 Including High Sherriffs 1661-1684 and 1761-1816 edited by James L. J. Hughes, volume 2. This shows
    "Henry Gosnold Esq. Harries made J.K.B. - Patent, Sept 27 1624 Behn-22, la par. f. R.42
    William Halsey, Esq. - Gosnold deceased - Privy Seal, Whitehall, Dec 17 1660".
  • 1646 petition Committee of Lords and Commons, Minutes, 9 April 1646

    • Death A set of arms was registerd in the office of Ulster, King of Arms as a Funeral Entry for Gosnold in 1658. These arms are identical to those registerd to the "Second Justice of Munster" during Henry's term in that office (and are the same as those of the Gosnolds of Otley, Suffolk).

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