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Gotts Surname Family History

Better known as the ancestral home of Sir Thomas Gresham – of grasshopper fame – and boasting a farm allegedly once belonging to Geoffrey Chaucer’s son before being sold to Sir William Paston, Gresham lies five miles south-west of Cromer and is neighboured by the villages of East Beckham and Aylmerton to the north, Bessingham and Sustead to the south – places holding long associations with the name of Gotts.

Samuel 235 Gotts and Martha 236 Woodhouse

Samuel 235 Gotts was born in 1760 in Gresham, and married Martha 236 Woodhouse in 1787. Although Samuel’s origins are unconfirmed, the most likely fit is the baptism at Gresham in 1758 of one of Samuel & Martha’s children born in Gresham are:

• George 237 b 1787
• Patrick 328 b 1789, d 1796
• Samuel 239 b 1791, believed died before 1796
• Robert George 240 b 1792, married Elizabeth 241 Annison in 1815
• Stephen 242 b 1794, d 1796
• Samuel 243 b 1796
• Sarah 244 b 1798 who married Robert Goose in 1838 in Norwich
• Charles 245 b 1801
• Thomas 246 b 1803 who married Mary 300 Wilson from Antingham in 1832
• Johnathan 247 b 1805, d 1841
• Lewis 248 b 1807
• Martha 2772 b 1813, married William Cooper in 1838
• Alfred 2773 b 1817

Gresham village sign

George 237

George 237 was a master tailor. He married Emma/Amy 254 Long in Aylsham in 1813. Their son Alfred Woodhouse 255 Gotts was born in 1827 and was also a master tailor in Aldeborough for many years. He married Martha Bell in 1858 but we have not seen any family.

George and Amy's daughter Harriett 977 married Robert Warner.

Gresham church

William Gotts & Sarah Burton

William 3632 Gotts and Sarah Burton married at Gresham in 1756. There are two baptisms registered in Gresham:

• Ann 3634 b 1757
• Samuel 235 b 1758

But where did William Gotts & Sarah Burton, the oldest ancestors come from?