Bartholomew is the most notable Gosnold that lived. Born in 1571 in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England, he was one of England's greatest explorers during the Elizabethan age.

In the year 1582 English lads of the generation of eleven-year-old Bartholomew Gosnold could read for the first time a true tale of the North American Indians. It was told in a sixty year-old document translated by the Reverend Richard Hakluyt for his first printed collection of mariners' narratives of voyages to America. This document

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.

The most famed Gosnold in this period was Bartholomew, an early adventurer to the New World, landing at Cape Cod in 1602, some twenty years before the Pilgrims (and responsible for its prosaic name, as well as that of the more playful Martha's Vineyard, after his daughter), and one of the founders of the first permanent colonial settlement in ...

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.

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.

Bartholomew's most notable voyages are the New England voyage - sailing from Falmouth in 1602 - and the Jamestown voyage - sailing from Blackwall, London in 1606.

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.

It is said that Shakespeare drew on the accounts from Gosnold's voyages when he wrote works such as The Tempest. Prospero's Hen For a while there has been heated debate as to whether or not William Shakespeare was a commoner from Stratford or in fact a man of more noble origins.