‘MY DANIEL RELATIONS MADE THEIR MARK ON BRITISH HISTORY’
The truth really can be stranger than fiction, as Roger Gosling discovered when he began researching his ancestors. While most of us would be happy to find one celebrated individual on our tree, he found a glittering array from high-ranking army and navy men, to top scholars, members of the nobility and a nun who took no nonsense from the Nazis. What’s more, they were all siblings descended from a long line of yeoman farmers, but how did he piece together the stories of these overachievers?
Robert got married at 47 to a 23 year old, and had 12 children
“I started researching the family about 15 years ago,” says Roger who lives in Elloughton, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. “I’d been interested for a long time and so had my niece, Belinda. My mother, who passed away shortly before I started, had always talked about her uncle being an admiral. I didn’t believe her, so Belinda and
