Gotts One-Name Study

Gotts
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Gotts One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Frequency of the name
Links
Contact Details

About the Gotts One-Name Study

I am Ian Gotts of St Albans, UK and I have set up a website for people interested in the name GOTTS. This can be accessed at: www.gotts.org.uk

I have registered the name in the UK's Guild of One Name Studies, and I have indexed the civil Births Deaths and Marriages in the Family Record Centre in London (from 1837), as well as the civil probate wills from 1860. I have many records of Gotts's in the census and parish registers, especially around Norfolk, where the name originates. I currently have 3000 names identified in family trees.

I am always pleased to hear from anyone about the name and will add any references you have to my databases for use by others.

Variants

Variants include Gottes. The name GOTT is covered by a different one-name study.

Origin of the surname

The name GOTTS originates around the Wash, in East Anglia. It has been suggested that there are two origins:

a glutton - too easy to spot
someone living by a gutter or drain

Given the location, the whole area was swamp, marsh, flooded, so anyone living there could easily be given this name.

There are records of a Richard Gottes in 1361, a bishop in one of the Norfolk churches.

During the 1800's people moved up the coast to settle in the main trading ports:

Hull, Middlesborough, Tyneside. The main area is still Norfolk. Further migration took place to USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Frequency of the name

The name Gotts appears to be 1 in 50,000 of the UK population.

Links

For further details see my website www.gotts.org.uk

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Ian Gotts
7a Sunderland Avenue,
St Albans,
Hertfordshire
AL1 4HJ
UNITED KINGDOM
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