Rev. Nicholas GOSSELIN ¹

  General Notes:

Title: "MEMOIRS OF THE GOSSELIN FAMILY"
Author:G.S. Bond
Comment: An extraction from the unpublished memoirs of G.S. Bond, entitled "Family Patchwork"

http://www.longfordancestry.com/longford-articles.php?ver=13&op=1

Mr. Gosselin's brother, the Rev. Nicholas Gosselin, was three times married. The story is that when quite young he saw three little girls playing together and said that when he grew up he meant to marry one of them. He married each in turn. He began with Miss Fox. Probably a sister of the Mr. Fox who married Sarah, the eldest of the Kingstones. Either these Foxes were unpopular, or else they were spoken of with great respect, for nobody refers to them by their christian names. There were two daughters of this marriage, Anne and Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. Daly. The Rev. Nicholas married secondly, Jane Kingstone, who had four daughters:-

Sydney, married Henry Courtney of 24, Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin.
Alicia, married Thomas Richardson of Waringstown Demesne, Lurgan and Tyaquin, Co. Galway.
Jane, married Dr. Rawson of Carlow.
Nicolina, married John Greer.
The Rev. Nicholas third wife was Helen Cuppage, but she had no children. He was rector of Tashinny; in one of his letters to Aunt Sidney, Great Grandpapa refers to soup-making there in the Famine time. He died in 1848.

Anglo-Celt Published in Cavan, county Cavan, August 4, 1848 DEATHS:
On the 30th inst., at the Blebe (Sic.), Tashinny, county Longford, in his 71st year, the Rev. Nicholas GOSSELIN, Rector of that Parish.

https://moxhamireland.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/tashinny-church/
Another impressive marble tablet in the church commemorates "the Reverend Nicholas Gosselin, late rector and vicar of the united parishes of Tashinny and Abbeyshruel, who died at Tashinny Glebe the 30th July 1848" after a thirteen year incumbency.

  Research Notes:

See attached sources. ²

Nicholas married Anne FOX, daughter of Mathew FOX "The Fox" and Elizabeth GRIERSON, about 1805 in Ireland. (Anne FOX was born in 1783 in County Meath, Ireland and died in May 1808.)

Nicholas next married Jane KINGSTONE, daughter of Alexander Crawford KINGSTONE and Sydney JOHNSTONE, after 1808. (Jane KINGSTONE was born after 1791 in Mosstown, Co Longford, Ireland and died before 1842.)

Nicholas next married Helen CUPPAGE, daughter of A. CUPPAGE of Lurgan, nr. Belfast and Unknown, in Mar 1842 in Tashinny, Co. Longford, Ireland.

  Marriage Notes:

https://books.google.pt/books?id=nqg2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA353&lpg=PA353&dq=Gosselin+Cuppage+longford&source=bl&ots=qDUOpydf_w&sig=H5cAXwp7ROSBdH9rZVbcaAJtuuo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNipeCr__LAhUFyRQKHdL8BsYQ6AEILTAE#v=onepage&q=Gosselin%20Cuppage%20longford&f=false
The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 21 p.353