Notes on Alice Gaylord
S.R. Durand: "Alice Gaylord was a daughter of Hugh Gaylord of Pitminster, Somerset County, England. She was baptized in Pitminster Church May 10, 1594, her name in the record being spelled 'Gayland,' though her father's name therein is spelled
'Hugh Gaylord.' In the old Taunton (Somerset) Calendar, under Pitminster, her marriage is recorded, '1615 Richard Trett was mar. to Alice Gaylord the xxxij day of April.'
The Gaylord name was an old Norman name in the 14th century in Normandy, France. Richard Coeur de Lion, King of England and Duke of Normandy, built a castle on the River Seine, which he named 'Chateau Gaillard.' There were several generations of
the Gaillard family in the 1200's and 1300's who lived in Normandy, and a branch of this family settled in Bruges, Flanders. The English branch, which was established in Somerset County, England, apparently came from the Bruges branch of the
Norman family. An article in the Journal of American History, Vol. XII, No. 4, 4th Quarter 1918, pages 557-569, traces these Gaillard families."
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