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Samuel Gossip was born in the Sheffield area the 8 Sep 1889 and later brought up in Beverley in Silvester Lane, Walkergate. His mother was Frances Caroline Gossip, born in Beverley in 1871. In January 1899 Frances married Arthur Spivey of Beverley in Hull; their son, Samuel Spivey was born on 6 Sep 1898. The family lived at 23 Holme Church Lane in Beverley. Arthur had worked as a tanner’s labourer but then became a plater’s helper at the Beverley shipyard.
On 5 Feb 1911 Samuel, by now living in Hull on Adelaide Street, married Maud Mary O’Connell of Beverley. She was the daughter of a general labourer, born in 1891, and was brought up on Beckside near to the Sloop Inn. At the time of the marriage Samuel was a labourer, possibly working in the docks. However the Beverley Guardian of May 1916 noted that prior to enlistment Samuel worked as a “Hull Police Fireman”. Their first child, Ruby, was born on 25 Sep 1914.
Samuel joined the Royal Field Artillery as a gunner and rose to the rank of sergeant. He arrived in France on 30 Dec 1915 but his role on the Western Front is not known. Samuel was “discharged” from the army on 18 Mar 1918 which suggests that he had been wounded though there is no record of him receiving a Silver Badge awarded to those who were unable to stay in the army.
After the war Samuel spent the rest of his life in Hull. He and his wife had a further four children the last, James, was born in 1928. The 1939 Register records Samuel working at Ideal Standard Boilers and Radiators as a “patrol policeman”, presumably a security role. He died aged 85 in 1975 in Hull; his wife died shortly afterwards.
Samuel is remembered today on the Holme Church Lane Street Shrine as “S. Gossop”
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