When back in County Kent, in southern England, her birth family used a nickname, Gaskin, for their ethnic surname. (Gascoigne meant "from the Gascony region" of France). Gascoigne had been extremely common in north England (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire). Those in south England, at Kent, avoided confusion with too many in the northern sets who shared the same "too common" first names such as John, Charles, Elizabeth and mary.
Called "dit names", nicknames for surnames were once common in French-settled Canada (Quebec etc). For key records, if needing to acknowledge both, a common format would be "Gascoigne dit Gaskin".
Her family apparently never or only rarely used the dit name of Gaskin, once in the States?
However, her baptism record, back in Headcorn, on May 9, 1824, did call her "Elizabeth Gaskin", daughter of "John Gaskin" and "Elizabeth", making her a namesake for her mother. Summaries of the Gaskin baptism records in Headcorn are in a database called "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", maintained by FamilySearch.org.
All but maybe three of the baptisms in her generation or later were to John and Elizabeth. The last Gaskin baptism at Headcorn was in 1846. Just one child, called Louisa, was baptized in Headcorn to a George Gaskin and Sarah. Was George a brother who stayed behind in Kent? (That Louisa Gaskin married locally, in Headcorn, to a James Hoad, then immigrated, later, her family maybe in Waukesha, Wisconsin, by 1870.)
Research by Findagrave member 48697180 JB, in 2023, college courses in historical geography and sociology covering censuses, settlements, and religion very useful.
Called "dit names", nicknames for surnames were once common in French-settled Canada (Quebec etc). For key records, if needing to acknowledge both, a common format would be "Gascoigne dit Gaskin".
Her family apparently never or only rarely used the dit name of Gaskin, once in the States?
However, her baptism record, back in Headcorn, on May 9, 1824, did call her "Elizabeth Gaskin", daughter of "John Gaskin" and "Elizabeth", making her a namesake for her mother. Summaries of the Gaskin baptism records in Headcorn are in a database called "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", maintained by FamilySearch.org.
All but maybe three of the baptisms in her generation or later were to John and Elizabeth. The last Gaskin baptism at Headcorn was in 1846. Just one child, called Louisa, was baptized in Headcorn to a George Gaskin and Sarah. Was George a brother who stayed behind in Kent? (That Louisa Gaskin married locally, in Headcorn, to a James Hoad, then immigrated, later, her family maybe in Waukesha, Wisconsin, by 1870.)
Research by Findagrave member 48697180 JB, in 2023, college courses in historical geography and sociology covering censuses, settlements, and religion very useful.
When back in County Kent, in southern England, her birth family used a nickname, Gaskin, for their ethnic surname. (Gascoigne meant "from the Gascony region" of France). Gascoigne had been extremely common in north England (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire). Those in south England, at Kent, avoided confusion with too many in the northern sets who shared the same "too common" first names such as John, Charles, Elizabeth and mary.
Called "dit names", nicknames for surnames were once common in French-settled Canada (Quebec etc). For key records, if needing to acknowledge both, a common format would be "Gascoigne dit Gaskin".
Her family apparently never or only rarely used the dit name of Gaskin, once in the States?
However, her baptism record, back in Headcorn, on May 9, 1824, did call her "Elizabeth Gaskin", daughter of "John Gaskin" and "Elizabeth", making her a namesake for her mother. Summaries of the Gaskin baptism records in Headcorn are in a database called "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", maintained by FamilySearch.org.
All but maybe three of the baptisms in her generation or later were to John and Elizabeth. The last Gaskin baptism at Headcorn was in 1846. Just one child, called Louisa, was baptized in Headcorn to a George Gaskin and Sarah. Was George a brother who stayed behind in Kent? (That Louisa Gaskin married locally, in Headcorn, to a James Hoad, then immigrated, later, her family maybe in Waukesha, Wisconsin, by 1870.)
Research by Findagrave member 48697180 JB, in 2023, college courses in historical geography and sociology covering censuses, settlements, and religion very useful.
Called "dit names", nicknames for surnames were once common in French-settled Canada (Quebec etc). For key records, if needing to acknowledge both, a common format would be "Gascoigne dit Gaskin".
Her family apparently never or only rarely used the dit name of Gaskin, once in the States?
However, her baptism record, back in Headcorn, on May 9, 1824, did call her "Elizabeth Gaskin", daughter of "John Gaskin" and "Elizabeth", making her a namesake for her mother. Summaries of the Gaskin baptism records in Headcorn are in a database called "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911", maintained by FamilySearch.org.
All but maybe three of the baptisms in her generation or later were to John and Elizabeth. The last Gaskin baptism at Headcorn was in 1846. Just one child, called Louisa, was baptized in Headcorn to a George Gaskin and Sarah. Was George a brother who stayed behind in Kent? (That Louisa Gaskin married locally, in Headcorn, to a James Hoad, then immigrated, later, her family maybe in Waukesha, Wisconsin, by 1870.)
Research by Findagrave member 48697180 JB, in 2023, college courses in historical geography and sociology covering censuses, settlements, and religion very useful.
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