Gorsuch

Gorsuch is an English family surname originating from West Lancashire.

Gorsuch

(commonly pronounced as "Gaw-sutch") from West Lancashire, England.

English: habitational name from the hamlet of Gorsuch, Lancashire, earlier Gosefordsich, from Old English Gosford ‘ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink-footed_Goose goose] ford’ + sic ‘small stream’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

To Richard de Scarisbrick Simon confirmed a grant previously made by Henry de Halsall, viz. Trulbury, Thornyhead, and Shurlacres (Schirewalacres), the bounds being thus given: Going up from Senecarr as far as Gorsuch,...

Source: Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxii, 188.

Family name

The English surname Gorsuch,is local in origin, belonging to a category of surnames derived from the name of the place where an original bearer dwelt or where he once held land. In this instance, therefore, the surname signifies simply "(descendant of) one who hails from Gorsuch", this being the land where geese forded the ditch near the [http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll531.jpgRiver Ribble] in the Lancashire parish of Ormskirk.

Gilbert Sutton was in 1518 found to have held land in Penwortham of the king as Duke of Lancaster; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. v, no. 67. This descended to Gorsuch of [http://www.scarisbrick.name Scarisbrick] in the same way as the other Sutton estates; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 63, no. 94.

source: Townships: Penwortham', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 56-61. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53070. Date accessed: 09 September 2008.

The Gorsuch family has since spread worldwide. Several thousand live in across the United States of America. This branch has a common ancestor in Dr. John Gorsuch (1607-1647) & Anne Lovelace, (1611-1652. Anne Gorsuch left for Virginia with four children, Robert, Richard, Anne and Katherine about 1651. [S. Esmé Overman,URL:http://www.ubbw.org.uk/Churches/Gorsuch.htm Date accessed: 10 September 2008.] source: An English Exodus, Charles E Moylan, Jr [http://hscc.carr.org/research/bookcatalog.htm library]

The [http://home.alphalink.com.au/~datatree/Gorsuch%20Family%20Reunion.htm Australian branch] has a common ancestor in Thomas Gorsuch of Chichester.

Blazon of Arms:

Sable; two bar engrailed argent between three fleurs-de-lys, or;

Crest:

Issuant from a Ducal coronet a Lion rampant or

[http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2002/ans-0183-gorsuch.htm source ref.]