1600s

ALL RECORDS FOUND FOR THIS ERA

This era of research is about casting a wide net, trying to find any GILSTRAP or variant record that will help us locate our ancestors.

PERSONS OF NOTE:

JAMES GELSTHORPE/GELSTROP

- bc 1640 (an estimate to make him old enough to want to travel from England to America and able to pay his own way. I am intrigued about him signing away his land to Thomas GODDARD. James died in Calvert County, Maryland before APR 1684, apparently without any family. It is interesting that a woman administered his estate.

JOHN GILLY - nothing further known

WILLIAM GOLDTHORP - some further notes in the 1700-1724 time-frame in Maryland. No connection to our family is found at this time.

Revised 12 OCT 2014

SOURCE CITATIONS

[1] Skordas, Gust, and Arthur Trader. The Early Settlers of Maryland; an Index to Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. Print.

[2] Skordas, Gust, and Arthur Trader. The Early Settlers of Maryland; an Index to Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. Print.

[3] Cotton, Jane Baldwin, and Roberta Bolling Henry. The Maryland Calendar of Wills: Wills from 1635 (Earliest Probated) to 1685, Volume 1. Maryland: Kohn & Pollock, 1904.

[7] Dryden, Ruth T. Calvert Papers Rent Rolls of Somerset County, Maryland, 1663-1723. San Diego, Ca. (2414 Front St., #25, San Diego, Ca. 92101): R.T. Dryden, 1981. Print.

[8] Holland, Eugenia Calvert. "Anne Arundel Takes Over From St. Mary's." Maryland Historical Magazine. March 1949: Page 47.

[9] Early Maryland Records #1. *** Badly documented source. I have seen this same date and location attributed to William GOLDTHROP online as a 'replacement census for early Maryland', but it doesn't really cite a particular source either.

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