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- Blacksmith of Horsleydown, Southwark according to marriage record.
There were numerous Gopsills at this time some of whom were blacksmiths and ironmongers such as this one below. The date below is too late for John Gopsill married to Mary Newman. Died of dropsy. Entry in DQB states he was called to the ministry and travelled to Ireland, parts of England, Holland and Friesland and some parts of Germany.
Anthony Wallis' note to Friends House Library from which the records from the DQB have been added.
"FAO Julia Hudson
Dear Friend,
I have recently been going through the BMD and other records you hold on the Gopsill family, with the help of Eira Makepeace whom you may recall from her recent visits to the library. Apart from the connection with the Gray family she is researching, I have a second interest as a Gopsill descendant.
It appears that there is a mistake in the DQB summary for John Gopsill (1676-1735) and his wife Mary Newman (married 1700). The typed record says that they had 16 children, who are then listed, the first being born in 1702 and the last in 1733. As Mary was born in 1675, she would have been 58 in 1733, and too old for childbearing. The records also show that she died in 1728. I thought you ought to be made aware of this, and perhaps revise or put a note with the records.
My examination of the records indicates that she actually had 10 children between 1702 and 1716, and the remaining children credited to this John and Mary are actually the children of John Gopsill (c.1691-1751) and his wife Mary Sterry (c.1694-1748), who married in 1714.
John Gopsill (1676-1735), a blacksmith, later linen draper of the psh of St Saviours, is the son of John Gopsill, blacksmith, (c 1651-1714) whose father, George, was from Sheldon in Warwickshire. John Gopsill (1691-1751), a blacksmith but from St Olave's psh, is the son of Thomas Gopsill also from Sheldon. No doubt they were related in some way, and may have been in business together, although this is not confirmable from the records. I have constructed two descendant trees, one for each family, which may be helpful, and which I attach.
I have used 'new style' dates (both month and year) for the trees, as my computer program cannot handle mixed dates. Nearly all the recorded Gopsill births, marriages and deaths for L&M, Herts and Essex are shown on the trees, with only a couple of exceptions. One is a record of the death on 1755.vi.8 of a *Mary Gopsill, wife of John deceased, aged 78. There is no other information to identify who she might be, although I suspect she is a second wife of John (1676-1735). She however would have been too old to be the mother of the later children credited to him."
*His will of 1735 refers to a second wife Sarah as well as to his two daughters Elizabeth Hagen and Mary Soundy as well as to his grandchildren by both daughters.
Testimony of Horselydown MM 26 iii 1736
John Gopsill
Dates: «tab»1751-1775
Location: «tab»Horsleydown
Occupation: «tab»iron monger metal work(s)
Gender: «tab»Male
Address: «tab»
Address(es): Horsleydown
Occupation: «tab»
Occupation(s): iron monger, metal work(s)
Source Date: «tab»1763
Source Info: «tab»
Subscribed to The American Negotiator: or, the various currencies of the British Colonies in America ... Reduced into English money by a series of tables, suited to the several exchanges between the Colonies and Britain (Second edn.), 1763, WRIGHT, John. London
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