Welcome (Updated 6/21/08)

All the Gould contributors on the site share a common Gould ancestry through John the Crusader which dates back to the time of William the Conqueror. Additional Gould lines and other family genealogies that are unique to the specific contributors and their spouses and extended families have been included as well.

If you feel you may have a connection to any of the histories or wish to contribute artifacts, please contact us. We welcome family historical data, photos, scans, digital reproductions, audio files, etc.

- Georgie Gould

Who Are The Goulds?

The name GOOLD, GOOLDE, GOLD, GOLDE, and GOULD can be traced in England to an early period, the family being of that ancient Normandy stock which was transplanted to English soil with the coming of William the Conqueror.

John the Crusader
John Gole, from who the Goulds decend, was a 13th century Crusader in Palestine. He was granted an estate by Ralph de Vallibus in A.D. 1220 at Seaborough in the County of Somersetshire, England for his valor at the siege of Damietta 1217. Various branches of the family figure extensively in the annals of that county, as well as Hertford, Devon, Buckingham. Dorset and London, England.

Effigy of John the Crusader at Seaborough Church. See more in Photos section.

Learn more about the 5th Crusade to Damietta in 1217 on Knowledgerush.

Thomas Gould of Bovington
Another branch of the Gould family was seated at Bovington, Hertfordshire and from the middle of the 15th century the line can be traced without interruption from Thomas Gould, who died in 1547, of that place, born about 1455, through Richard who died in 1558, and Richard born about 1553 to the immigrant sons, Zaccheus and Jeremy who came to New England. However, this is not our line of Goulds but they do interconnect.