Mother Goose - Ft. Wayne Zoo, IN - Famous Fictional Figures on Waymarking.com

You never can tell quite where an old tale like mother goose might have come from. Here is a take from Wikapedia in 2015:

The original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665–1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street. According to Eleanor Early, a Boston travel and history writer of the 1930s and '40s, the original Mother Goose was a real person who lived in Boston in the 1660s. She was reportedly the second wife of Isaac Goose (alternatively named Vergoose or Vertigoose), who brought to the marriage six children of her own to add to Isaac's ten. After Isaac died, Elizabeth went to live with her eldest daughter, who had married Thomas Fleet, a publisher who lived on Pudding Lane (now Devonshire Street). According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them. Finally, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them.

Character Type: Literature Character originator: Mary Goose Internet Link: [Web Link] Address or Location: On the island in the center of the Ft. Wayne's Children's Zoo.

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