ANCESTRY OF GASCOIGNE - ENGLAND

Gascoign, Gascoyne, Gaskain, Gaskin and Gasking are all variations on the surname Gascoigne. Surnames were often corrupted in earlier times, when different spellings and nicknames resulted in the birth of new surnames. Today surnames are fixed, so Paul Gascoigne's nickname 'Gazza' is unlikely to become a surname in its own right. Early Gascoignes included Bernard Gascon in Northamptonshire 1206 and Yorkshire's William le Gascun in 1208, but this line is thought to have died out. In the later thirteenth century another line of Gascoignes included Philip le Gascoyn of Shropshire and Geoffrey Gascoyne of Norfolk and in the following century this surname appeared in Yorkshire as Gasqwyn. All the names point to a French origin and mean 'Gascon' - someone from Gascony. Gascon derives from the Latin Vasco-Onis which means 'boasting' which is also the origin for the name of the Basques in Spain. In the sixteenth century a branch of the Gascoigne family acquired land in Durham when Isobel Boynton, a descendant of the Lumleys and heiress to the estate of Ravensworth near Gateshead married Sir Henry Gascoigne of Gawthorpe, Lancashire. The Gascoignes owned the manor of Ravensworth until they sold it to the Liddell family in 1607, but members of the family continued to own land at nearby Birtley. It was the Liddells who built the castle at Ravensworth in the following century. It was demolished in 1953.

ANCESTRY OF GASCOYNE - AMERICA

·         GASCOYNE, GASKIN, or GASKELL, EDWARD, Salem, (New England) shipwright, had gr. of ld. 1637, by w. Sarah had Samuel, bapt. 7 Aug,. 1639; Daniel, 10 Oct. 1640; Sarah, 14 May 1643; Hannah, 1 Mar. 1646; and Edward, 30 Apr. 1648. Sarah, m. 24 May 1661, Peter Joy. SAMUEL, Salem, s. prob. of the preced. m. 30 Dec. 1662, Provided, d. of Lawrence Southwick, had Samuel, b. 23 Jan. 1664; Edward, 22 Oct. 1667; Hannah, 2 Jan. 1670; and Provided, 22 Apr. 1672; was punish. 1658, for his curiosity or depravity in attend. a Quaker meet. He had s. John, wh. a. 9 Oct. 1686, perhaps few days old; and his w. Elizabeth d. 18 of the same. The Salem rec. also certif. that by w. Elizabeth he had Elizabeth b. 13 May 1688; where we can see that an error of date is giv. unless he had sec. w. of the same name as the first. But he could certain. not be f. of that temporary dweller in Cambridge or Charlestown nam. SAMUEL, wh. was after of New Haven, m. very likely as sec. w. 20 July 1687, Elizabeth Sherman, d. of John, but whether the min. or the capt. is by Bond left uncert. Yet we may easily presume that between the two Samuels there is confus. tho. we may be very sure that no Quaker would then have been permit. to m. a d. of either Capt. or Rev. John S. It was clear. the d. of Rev. John that m. at mature age after her f.'s d. Samuel G. a thriving merch. of New Haven, had prob. Samuel and Mary perhaps by former w. and he had bapt. at Watertown, John, 30 Nov. 1690; and d. 1706. His inv. was of 20 Jan. foll. and Sherman's d. Elizabeth was admin. SAMUEL, Stratford, s. of the preced. d. soon after his f. leav. w. Abigail half his est. beside provis. in case she were pregnant, and residue to sis. Mary, by his will of 31 Jan. 1707.

1st settlement in Virginia, America - Jamestown - 1607 - led by George Percy, youngest brother of the "Wizard Earl", Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland  was born at Tynemouth Castle.

400th Anniversary of founding 1st English settlement in America is in 2007 - LONDON??? have been chosen to represent the Brits at www.Jamestown2007.org

1st settlement in New England - New Plymouth - 1620 - See; http://AncestryUK.com/HiltonAncestry.htm