Bartholomew Gosnold would have been had he been shown, by some occult art, that twelve years later he was to become by marriage a near relative of this Captain Winter. Even less could Gosnold know that Gilbert's visionary adventure was shaping his own destiny. The Golden Hind (named for Sir Francis Drake's famous ship, then on exhibition in

This site is a tribute to the achievements of Bartholomew Gosnold who is often referred to as the "forgotten man of history". As his first cousin 14 times removed I decided to collate a lot of the information others have previously gathered in order to provide a single reference site here. Gosnold Roots.

Personal narrative in the form of a letter to his father at the time of his first voyage to the New World can be found at the Virtual Jamestown website. There have been a few books written about Bartholomew Gosnold and more recently some radio documentaries by BBC Radio Suffolk, Gosnold's home county.

A full list of the descendents of John Gosnold has been traced in the research of Warner F. Gookin, published in Ancestry of Bartholomew Gosnold, New England Historic Genealogical Register vol 105 pp5-22 and J. Henry Lee in Genealogical Gleanings Among the English Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Register vol 56 pp 402.

At the site archeaologists discovered the remains of a 17th century sea captain, believed to be Bartholomew Gosnold. In order to establish if the remains are those of Bartholomew Gosnold scientists hoped to examine DNA extracts from two graves at churches in Suffolk, England, thought to belong to two of Bartholomew's maternal relatives.

Bartholomew Gosnold married into a family with even more impressive connections, an essential ingredient for success in the totalitarian time of Queen Elizabeth. Martha, his mother-in-law, for whom his first child was named, was a cousin of Sir Thomas Smythe, founder of the East India Company and a leader of the Virginia Company. ...

A group of Europeans, headed by Bartholomew Gosnold, began planning a possible business venture that would send a group of colonists to what was already known as Virginia. Gosnold was apparently the driving force behind getting this operation in place. Gosnold was referred to as "the first mover of this plantation" by Captain John Smith."(Ward ...

On Saturday the twentieth of December in the yeere 1606. the fleet fell from London, and the fift of January we anchored in the Downes; but the winds continued contrarie for so long, that we were forced to stay there some time, where wee suffered great stormes, but by the skilfulnesse of the Captaine wee suffered no great losse or danger.