Jean-fr (Gossett) Gosset (1673 - 1720)

Born 1673 in St Sauveur, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne, France

Died 6 Feb 1720 at about age 47 in Bagot Manor, St. Helier, Isle of Jersey

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Biography

"Three generations of these related Huguenot families from the Channel Islands, and before that from Normandy, are treated here and under D'allain: Matthew Gosset (1683-1744), secondly his nephews, Jacob Gosset (1703-88), Gideon (1707-85) and Isaac (1713-99), sons of Jean Gosset and Susanne D’Allain, and thirdly Abraham Dallain (c.1727-1803), husband of Jane Gosset, and his brother, Isaac Dallain (c.1730-1791 or later). Isaac D'allain went into partnership with Richard Harding in 1782 as 'successors to Mr. Gosset'."

Sources: For the Gosset family, see Mary H. Gosset, 'A Family of Modellers in Wax', Publications of the Huguenot Society, vol.3, 1892, pp.540-68, and Tessa Murdoch, ‘Courtiers and Classic: The Gosset Family’, Country Life, vol.177, 1985, pp.1282-3.

CHILDREN OF JOHN & SUSAN D'Allain GOSSET^[1]

John and Susan Gosset had six sons. They resided in the Manor House of Bagot in Jersey, where their sons grew to manhood. None of the sons remained in Jersey Island except Abraham, the second son, who became the heir. Their sons were (see Payne’s chart):

1. John Gosset, born 1699, came to America. He took up land in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1735, and he is found in the records to have settled on the frontier before 1735. His activities will be discussed after data on his five brothers have been presented.

2. Abraham, the second son, was the heir. He was born 1701; died 1785; was married to Jane White. The illustrious descendants (high officials in the British government and high-ranking officers in the British army and navy) of Abraham and Jane White Gosset are enrolled in “Pedigree of Gosset” in J. B. Payne’s An Armorial of Jersey, and their records are found in other references. The lineage of this landed gentry family to the present representative appears regularly in the publications of Burke, The Landed Gentry. Burke (1952) lists the Rev. George Allen Gosset, Curate of St. Luke, Parkstone, Dorsetshire, as the present representative.

3. Jacob, the third son of John and Susan D’Allain Gosset, was born 1703; died 1788. Gyll’s History of Wraysbury refers to his burial place in London, “M. I. Hampstead”, meaning his name occurs in the Manuscript Index of the Register of Deaths in Hampstead, which is a parish in Middlesex, London.

4. Peter, the fourth son, was born 1705. He was married to Catherine Du Four, and they had five children. Catherine Du Four was a member of a very ancient, noble family of France. There were many Du Four branches with different coats-of-arms. They were Huguenots, and Du Four families fled to England and to America and settled in Boston and other localities in the earliest period of the Huguenot settlements. Peter Gosset with his family came to America between 1750-1760, therefore the references to this family will be cited in Part II of this Gossett history.

5. Gideon, the fifth son, was born 1707; died Aug. 6, 1785; married Ann _______, who died March 26, 1761, aged 56. Gideon and Ann Gosset are buried in Matthew Gosset’s tomb at St. Marylebone, London.

6. Isaac, the sixth son of John and Susan D’Allain Gosset, was born 1713; died 1799; married dau. of _______ Bosquet. He settled in London. Like his uncle, Matthew Gosset, Isaac Gosset was an artist and a modeler of portraits in wax. He was closely associated with his uncle at Horton in London, and he and his only son, the learned Rev. Dr. Isaac Gosset, are buried in Matthew Gosset’s tomb at St. Marylebone. Concerning Isaac Gosset, the artist, the following extract is quoted from Rev. David C. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France, London, 1871, V. II, p. 230:

“John Gosset, who married Susan D’Allain ... their youngest son, Isaac Gosset, Esq., died at Kensington, 28th Nov. 1799, having nearly completed his 88th year. He invented a composition of wax in which he modeled portraits in the most exquisite manner. His works were numerous, and included the royal family, and many of the nobility and gentry from the time of George II down to 1780. In the line of his art he may be said to have been unique as the inventor of the inimitable materials with which he worked, the secret of which was confided only to his son, the learned and Rev. Dr. Isaac Gosset.”

Sources

1. ↑ Newcomer, Evangeline Gossett,. The family of Gossett. Pico, Calif.: Printed by J.M. McCoy, 1954. p. 36-38.

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