Right folks, back to my age old problem, just how do you find anything relating to parentage of someone when you know roughly when but not where?
Benjamin Goulson c1677-1731 (he died aged 54 according to varied records), buried in Ropsley, Lincolnshire.
Benjamin Goulson. Born at unknown location, married in 1703 at Broughton Sulney (aka Upper Broughton) to Mary Page. The marriage records shows the spelling as Gulson, though for every later record, including the baptism of the first child in 1704 at Ropsley the spelling is then Goulson throughout.
There are heaps of Goulson/Gulson entries that straddle the Lincs, Leics, Notts borders but can I find a likely Benjamin baptism for the period, only one and the mothers name doesn't appear anywhere else in the tree which for this line is unusual.
I did find an interesting ref on Google books referring to an earlier Theodore Goulson and there is mention of surgeons, now some of the descendants of Benjamin did go onto to become surgeons but does that mean there is potentially a link?
Any suggestions for where Benjamin might have been born or his baptism appreciated. I can't even say what his occupation was but his headstone states he was a reader (whatever that may mean) and a couple of years earlier the death of his servant was recorded at Ropsley.
I have some bits to connect pre 1650 generations of the surname into a generic "Goulson" tree but the gap between those and the 1670's birth i'm looking for mean they are pretty academic as far as my tree is concerned.
Benjamin Goulson c1677-1731 (he died aged 54 according to varied records), buried in Ropsley, Lincolnshire.
Benjamin Goulson. Born at unknown location, married in 1703 at Broughton Sulney (aka Upper Broughton) to Mary Page. The marriage records shows the spelling as Gulson, though for every later record, including the baptism of the first child in 1704 at Ropsley the spelling is then Goulson throughout.
There are heaps of Goulson/Gulson entries that straddle the Lincs, Leics, Notts borders but can I find a likely Benjamin baptism for the period, only one and the mothers name doesn't appear anywhere else in the tree which for this line is unusual.
I did find an interesting ref on Google books referring to an earlier Theodore Goulson and there is mention of surgeons, now some of the descendants of Benjamin did go onto to become surgeons but does that mean there is potentially a link?
Any suggestions for where Benjamin might have been born or his baptism appreciated. I can't even say what his occupation was but his headstone states he was a reader (whatever that may mean) and a couple of years earlier the death of his servant was recorded at Ropsley.
I have some bits to connect pre 1650 generations of the surname into a generic "Goulson" tree but the gap between those and the 1670's birth i'm looking for mean they are pretty academic as far as my tree is concerned.
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