XIV Deysfield

This must have been a confusing place to live, as all three heads of family were called James - Gosling, Poulson and Goymer. Each of them had several relatives living in the village, too.

Page 53	Gosling	James	23.7.43
		Henrietta	36
		George	20.3.68
		Theresa	27.2.69

James Gosling at 27 was eight years younger than his London-born wife Henrietta - it would be interesting to know how they met and married. She was born in Hackney in 1834, while he was a native of Chelsworth, the eldest son of Elizabeth and Isaac of Marshes, and brother of John who lived at the back of Weavers. He worked as a labourer. The couple went on to have four more children, three of whom died young.

Page 55	Postans	James	35
		Hannah	36
		Catherine	27.11.64
		Martha	24.5.68

The confusion over the surname is quite remarkable - although the name Postans does occur in Suffolk - notably in Shelley - Poulson (or Powson) was a far more common name.

James Poulson (1832-1885) was the husband of Hannah (née Brown - 1834-1912). She was the daughter of John and Susan Brown of Tudor Cottage, and younger sister of William of "Goslings" and John in Oak Tree Cottage. James, a shoemaker, was the son of James, a labourer from Preston. Hannah died in Semer Workhouse at the age of 77.

The school log book records that Catherine Poulson was a school monitor and later a pupil teacher; but she died at the age of 17.

Page 57	Goymer	James	51
		Maryanne	19.8.26
		Henry	15.4.51
		James	9.6.54
		John	9.8.58
		Emmeline	19.5.61
		Emily	6.6.64
		Baby

James Goymer (or Goymour, as the surname appears in every census return) was a labourer, the son of John and his wife Ann (1780-1861) and brother of William in Waterfall View and George (Upper Common). He was born in Chelsworth in 1818 and died in 1899. His wife Maryanne was born in Kersey. Their new baby reported here was christened in October 1869 as Harriet Jane, but later censuses name her Henrietta.

These three sons (they had seven children in all) were cocoa-mat shearers - so too were some of the youngsters in the Bennett and Brown households, living in Cakebridge Lane and "Days" - presumably beginning at the works in Bildeston, but later moving to Sudbury. By 1881, the youngest, John, was working as a groom in Stratford St Mary.

Emily found a position as a general servant with the family of Frederick Gage at Jackdaws Ford, next door to The Peacock, and in 1883 married a 34-year-old widower, silk weaver Henry Rudd.

In 1873, Henry Goymer married Harriet Hammond whose family lived at "Goslings".

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