Richard Gossage
| Richard Gossage | |
|---|---|
| Person | Richard Gossage |
| Title | |
| First name | Richard |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Gossage |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Draper |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Richard Gossage |
| Has signoff text | Richard Gossage |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Lawrence Pountney |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1607 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
| Probate date | |
| First deposition age | |
| Primary sources | |
| Act book start page(s) | |
| Personal answer start page(s) | |
| Allegation start page(s) | |
| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/65 f.88v Annotate |
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| Miscellaneous start page(s) | |
| Act book date(s) | |
| Personal answer date(s) | |
| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Sep 19 1651 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | |
Biographical synthesis
Richard Gossage (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Dyer.
Resident in 1651 in the parish of Saint Lawrence Pountney.
Probably a churchwarden of the parish of Saint Lawrence Pountnery in 1647-48 and 1648-49.[1]
An undated dyer's seal for Richard Gossage was found on the Thames foreshore.[2]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-four year old Richard Gossage deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on September 19th 1651.[3]
Comment on sources
"Cloth Seal, London Dyers Company Seal, 1613 onward
Cloth Seal, London Dyers Company Seal, 1613 onward, Image & Found by Derfel.
Found on Thames Foreshore, 23mm.
Wheel, lion RICHARD GOSSAGE around // IIabove a madderbag, (LONDON S)TAL(L) around (with the help of other seals)
A London Dyers' Company Seal of Richard Gossage matching seals 81.4/15 and 81.4/16 in the Museum of London's collection"[4]
PROB 11/250/385 Will of Richard Gossage, Barber, Chirurgeon of Saint Lawrence Pountney London 18 October 1655
"Churchwardens
...1647-48 Edward Jackson, Peter Webster, Richard Gossage
1648-49 Richard Gossage, Edward Morton..."[5]
"1644. September.
...Richard Gossage, only son of Robert draper, b. in par. of West Ham, co. Essex, 25 May, 1635"[6]- ↑ Henry Bristow Wilson, A History of the Parish of St. Laurence Pountney, London (London, 1831), p.114
- ↑ Cloth Seal, London Dyers Company Seal, 1613 onward
- ↑ HCA 13/65 f.88v Annotate
- ↑ Cloth Seal, London Dyers Company Seal, 1613 onward
- ↑ Henry Bristow Wilson, A History of the Parish of St. Laurence Pountney, London (London, 1831), p.114
- ↑ A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School , vol. 1 (Lewes, 1882), p.164
