GOSLING, Thomas (Grimwade p.320)

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Indentures were signed in 1769 for Thomas, son of the late Thomas Gosling, innholder of Little Britain, to be the apprentice of Thomas Pepper (Grimwade p.610) of the Clockmakers Company.
He was made free in 1777 and entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in that year as a case maker from 2 Lilypot Lane following Thomas Pepper (Grimwade p.619) in being assessed to Land Tax on the property. The tenant next door had long been Robert Carrington and in 1778 Thomas Gosling married his daughter Martha (born 1752) at St Anne and St Agnes, Aldersgate.
He entered another mark in 1778 from the same address, this with a goose above the cartouche.
Four of their children were christened at St Anne and St Agnes between 1779 and 1791.
Thomas Gosling, watch case maker, appears in London Trade Directories at 3 Staining Lane in 1790.
He continued to pay Land Tax on the Lilypot Lane property until 1792.
The burial record in 1826 at St Andrew, Holborn of a Thomas Gosling aged about 67 years, late of Leather Lane, may be relevant.