Identifier: historyofstateof04inbick (find matches)
Title: The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
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Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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e and Alfreda (Burlinga )Chase, of Providence, and member of a prominent .dRhode Island family. Mrs. Trumpler surviveshusband, and resides at No. 35 Main street, PawtucThey were the parents of one daughter, Mary, ■married, April 24, 1912. Dr. W. A. Gaylord, of Ptucket, son of the late Dr. W. A. Gaylord, whoborn near Westfield, Mass., June 17, 1820, was a gil-uate of Trinity College, and of the Harvard MecJlSchool, and for forty years was one of the forenmembers of the medical profession in Pawtucket, I-He died April 24, 1912. Mr. Trumpler died at his hKin Pawtucket. R. I., June 26, 1910. GEORGE GOSLING—The surname Gosling is>lancient French origin, and found its way into Engl iat the time of the Norman Conquest. It is of baptis ilclassification, signifying literally the son of GoceJosse, and is taken from the diminutive GoceliniJosselin. It appears in ancient English registersthe forms Goslin, Gosline, Gosling, Goslings, Gostl?.The g is excresent. Goce and Josse track back to e
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BIOGRAPHICAL t59 ncient Latin and are cognate with joy and joyous inrigin. The name was rendered popular by St. Josse,he hermit, who refused the sovereignty of Brittany,he parent name is nearly forgotton, however, but lives;i the wide favor of the diminute Jocelyn. From the■rst in England there was an interchangeable use ofhe initial letters G or /, and there was an attendantifference in pronounciation. Thus it is that we haverosling and Joscelyn, while both are the same name,llranches of the family have been prominent in EnglishSistory since the Norman Conquest. Families of theame were established in America in the early part ofle seventeenth century, but the line herein under con-,ideration is English. The Gosling coat-of-arms is asallows: Arms—Gules a chevron between three crescents er-line, Crest—An eagles head erased sable charged with arescent ermine. The late George Gosling, former president of the R.jlews Manufacturing Company, of Central Falls, R. I.,:ne of the foremost

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