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I'll leave PriaposLovs to tackle your friend's first name of "Thessalie", as that sounds suspiciously like a placename in Greece to me.

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"Gaskarth" is an English surname meaning "goose garth" (enclosure). As stated at this website:

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http://www.dimensional.com/~gizmo42/threlk.html

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"...presumably denoting the situation of the cottage where the man lived who was first given this name..."

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-- Nanaea