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| | Gosse family |
 | | In 1817, John Gosse of Ringwood, Hampshire was taken into the partnership; he already had a growing trade in Carbonear, the second largest town in Newfoundland and, with its heavy involvement in the Labrador fishery and seal hunt, a far better place for expansion. |
 | | Gosse was a brilliant student of Newfoundland entomology and a shrewd observer of society in Carbonear area. |
 | | Assignment of lease from Christopher Gosse of Kingston in the parish of Ringwood, Hants., gent., son of Thomas Gosse late of Ringwood, mercer, by the direction of William Adey of Burley in the parish of Ringwood, taylor, to John Biddlecombe of Burley, yeoman, of three closes of pasture ground with appurtenances at Burley. |
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