Robert (Elias? C?) Gosney

Born: 27 October 1856

Died 13 November 1935

Parents:     Julia Harriot (Harriet?) (Harriott?) Setchell & Elias Gosney

Siblings:    Robert (Elias? C?), Elias Edward (Edward E?)

Relationships:

Marianne Elizabeth Boultwood m before 1882

Children:

Violet, Henry Thomas, Percy

Lived:

1881 & 1883: 14 Caroline St, St. George, Hanover Square, (Pimlico?) London
1901: 35 Greenfield Road, Tottenham.
1911: Ravensbury Rd, Southfields
1914 & 1915: 154 Elborough Street, Wandsworth.

Educated:

Worked:

1881: "Tracer Receiver & Acct GPO (C S Clk)" in census.
1901: "Tracer GPO"
1883 & 1911: Worked as 'Tracer' ('Foreign Telegraph') at the General Post Office.
1916: Retired and given clock

 

Notes:

Born Chelsea, Middx. Just "Robert" on birth certificate.
1901 census shows him and son alone (wife elsewhere?).
Given copy of The Arabian Nights' entertainments in September 1875. Given Imperial Service Medal in 1916.

A note in Enid Sawkins' diary in 1970 says "Robert Elias Gosney witness at Rose and Leonard's (Read) wedding 1915."
Bought grave space in Wandsworth Cemetery (wife buried in 1915).
Died in Hove (copy of burial service at Hove cemetery)

Photographs:

for details see:

P001,  P002,  P273,  P285

Documents used:
10, 24, 25, 27, 39, 41, 43, 44, 48, 51, 53, 58, 78, 128, 129

Dates based on documents:

24, 25, 27, 39, 41, 43, 48, 51, 53, 58, 119, 128

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