Posted on: HALIFAX CO, VA QUERY FORUM Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Halifax/2199 Surname: Goswell ------------------------- The surname Goswell would appear to have English origin, going back to the 1500s and perhaps 1100s. Certainly Gosnell may be a spelling change. If your forebear was full blooded Indian and bore the surname Goswell, could she have been adopted into a family and assumed their surname?