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Welcome to the Gotts Surname Family History

This site is the Family Tree Database part of the Gotts website where you can see the trees of known Gotts families and search all of them for individuals. Please be aware that if you are looking at this part of the site on a phone you may be missing key links at the top of the screen and all the search information at the bottom. If so, I recommend you use a laptop or tablet.

The Main site has over 300 pages about Gottses, including:

  • Stories, origins of the name,
  • more detail on the early families,
  • the earliest known ancestors,
  • their service in the military

The third part of the website is the Wordpress Newsblog, with notes and short stories about people.

These other parts can be reached through the links on the top menu. There are also links back to here from these sites.

How to use this site

The really useful feature of this site is to search for Gottses and see if they are already in the known families. When you enter the name on the Search boxes at the top of the page, or the bar above the image, it will search across all the trees and give you a list of those Gottses who match your search and which tree they are in.

For further help follow the instructions at the bottom of the page which are visible during the Search.

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Main website

The main website has these topics:

  • Home: About the website, how to find your way round the site, contact details
  • News: News archive for previous years, links to the Newsblog, queries to trace particular people
  • Stories: Index to many of the stories scattered across the website giving insights to Gotts lives
  • War, Crime and more: Military records esp WW1 and WW2, Crimes, DNA study, Occupations, Mariners and Tudor records
  • About the Name: Origins of the name and earliest records, Notable Gottses, Gottses in print and online, migration patterns
  • Families: History and stories for all the known families containing more detail on the early families,

Click on the image, or the link on the top menu to see for yourself.

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Newsblog

The Newsblog has brief stories about Gottses and links to the detail on the main website.

Any regular updates to the website are described here.

Click on the image and see if you can find out who this person is above.

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BEST WAYS TO SEARCH

BEST WAYS TO SEARCH

‘Search’ box and under ‘Find’

You can Search by:

  • People (ie for individuals, only using their details)
  • Families eg husband/wife
  • Search the site which uses Google to search across this site.

Click on either Search box, then Advanced Search. This takes you to the main Search People Screen.

Enter the data you know, or to see everyone in all trees leave everything blank, click to see death & burial and spouse and then click on ‘Search’ box.

You now have an alphabetical list of people with their key details from across all trees. Click on any person and you see all the information about them.

If you click on Ancestors or Descendants you will be in their tree. You can navigate up and down it and see the key information.

You can print out that screen from the ‘Print’ button at the right hand side.

You can download and print out the Pedigree and Dependency charts.

The individual report for that person can also be downloaded and printed out. You are allowed to export that one record only by Gedcom.

If you would like more individuals, then please contact me.

MORE SEARCH TOOLS IN THE ‘FIND’ BOX

MORE SEARCH TOOLS IN THE ‘FIND’ BOX

Clicking on the Find button shows a dropdown menu with some useful search screens:

First Name and Surname take you to lists of these, which you can drill down on and select one to go to the Individual page.

Places can be great for finding where most people lived. Clicking on it takes you to the Place List at the highest level with the greatest numbers, often at a Country level. Clicking on one drills down to the next level, typically the County, then potentially the Place. It depends whether all locations have been set up with Place/County/Country referenced. If not, you may find the same place at different level, eg the same place at county level and below county level. These will be improved as the family trees develop.

If you can’t see as many people in a location as you expect, try starting a level up. Eg if you don’t see many entries for Gresham, start at Norfolk and drill down.

When you drill down at some level you will see a tiny magnifying glass Search symbol at the end of the place. Click on this to see all the events at this place. Clicking on the person takes you to the Individual’s Page.

Search Families – limited use

This search screen lets you search for married couples, not father/son combinations. When you click on Search you see a list of people meeting the criteria. Click on the Family ID on LHS to show more detail of the event. Click on the name of the person in bold to go to the Person screen where you can investigate the family as described above.

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GOTTS NAMES, TREES AND REFERENCE NUMBERS INDEX

The link below has the Reference numbers for Gottses in trees. It has a cutoff date of birth of 1900, so for any later dates please contact me.

Click here for Cross-reference list

Trees loaded to date:

Tree (#) Version Earliest Gotts No entries
009 v11 Gresham, Norfolk 287
017 v4 Wm & Matilda Parsons, Gresham Norfolk 55
018 v1 Misc Gresham, Norfolk 10
022 v28 Barningham, Norfolk, Aus 358
028 v1 Anthony 358 Lessingham Norfolk 35
034 v19 John & Ann Marshall Bacton, Norfolk, USA, Canada 165
036 v3 Gt Ryburgh, Norfolk 62
038 v16 Thomas Gotts & Sarah Wegg Gresham, Norfolk 105
040 v28 Stratton Strawless/Hevingham, Norfolk, USA, NZ, Aus 505
052 v5 Henry Johnson, Holt, Kent, Scotland 33
071 v13 John & Ann Vout Norfolk, London, Aldermaston 247
077 v3 Thomas Gotts Bramble Cromer, Oulton, Bristol 43
079 v8 Bulphan, Essex, London 55
083 v12 Samuel & Eliz Green, London 144
091 v8 Wm & Mary Wright Lakenham, Norwich, London, Bengal 66
092 v6 John & Mary Clements, Ranworth, Norfolk, London 47
094 v2 Luke Gottses, Gt Ryburgh Norfolk 9
097 v9 Swaffham, Norfolk, Michigan 70
098 v14 Methwold Norfolk, Lancashire, USA 196
108 v10 George of Reepham, London, Lancashire, USA 49
112 v2 Samuel & Mary Ann Piggin Norwich 11
124 v3 George & Sarah Barnes Norwich 10