Gostling or Goslinge
Henry Goslinge
Yeoman
Inventory on 17 Feb 1664. Hall, parlour, parlour chamber, little chamber next the hall, chamber over the buttery, buttery, kitchen, beanhouse {sic, maybe brewhouse} dairy, cheese chamber, SHOP, stable Total £125.8s0d. (Bury St Eds 592/9/237)
George & William Gostling
19th centuy Millers
In 1825 William Gostling married Sarah Goldsbury.
In 1826 they have first child, William Goldsbury Gostling. His father is named as a journeyman miller,
In the Victorian era father and son were millers on the border between Stowupland and Earl Stonham. And in 1840 William is named as the occupier of the Drift Way off Saxham Street.
In 1851 Wm Gostling is named as the occupier of Earl Stonham fields of Bradfield and Cooks Close.
Sadly in 1864 William died aged 38 after an illness lasting 5 days, leaving his wife to bring up 6 young children. Did her older sister Susanna Goldsbury ( 1817 – 1874) move to Earl Stonham to help her?
Sarah dies in 1889 age 83 in Needham Market. Susanna had died in 1874 during a concert at Earl Stonham. She was attended to by the Stowmarket Physician Spencer Freeman who was also at the concert, but sadly she had died immediately.
In 1891, a Miss Gostling living in Stowupland Street placed a newspaper advertisement seeking apprentices to dressmakers.
In 1887 Mr G. Gostling, along with Mr H.F. Harwood, Mr Potter and Mr Thomas Carter, were elected as trustees for Stowupland Townland Charity.
George James Gostling was born in 1843 in Diss where he married his wife Sarah. By 1870 they had moved to Stowmarket. He is a ‘licentiate dentist and druggest. and is not to be confused with Wliiiam Gostling (the miller)’s father. And whilst he lives and works in Stowmarket his work and social activities have consequences for the people of Stowupland.
This letter twas published in an Australian paper in 1890, it was titled A STARTLING EVENT IN A VILLIAGE (1890, November 6), it asserted that ‘Mr G.J. Gostling, L.D.S, R.C.S.I, Ph C.I., Licentiste a Pharmacy and Dental surgeon’ had restored mobility to a fifty-year-old lady through the supply of ‘Mother Seigal’s Syrup and Operating pills.’
In 1898, 15 year old Ellen Brame died of consumption. In the 1891 census Ellen had been staying with her Uncle Frederick Barme and his sister Rose in Church Walk in Stowupland. Her parents Rose and Jacob Nunn were censured for neglect but the chemist George Gostling was told the medicine he had provided ‘was suitable for the case’. She had not been seen by a doctor (although she had been insured for 12 years) and had been ‘ailing for some time past’. {March 1898, Suffolk Mercury}
1905 letter written by Mr G.J.Gostling regarding vacancies on the Board of Guardians.
In 1914 there was a Dr E.V. Gostling in Stowmarket.
