Walter Morgan Gosling (1893~1963)

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Walter Morgan Gosling, the son of George Morgan Gosling and Clara Matilda Wilkins was born in Bristol in 1893. He was a Plumber.

He married Harriett Olive Jones (known as 'Dolly') from Westbury on Severn in 1916 and together they had the follwing children:

Harold Walter Gosling

b1923

d1992

Harriett died in 1929 in Bristol aged 36.

On the 7th September 1929, having sold his house in Bristol, Walter and his son Harold travelled from Southampton, England to Canada on the 'Montroyal' Canadian Pacific Line arriving at Quebec a week later on the 14th September. As far as we can tell they both intended to emigrate to Canada with the intention of Harold inheriting George and Mabel Hiffernan's farm in the Peace River area of British Columbia at some point in the future. However sometime later Walter decided to return to England (reason unknown) and it is believed that he considered letting Harold stay behind but when the time came to actually go he couldn't bear to leave him. And so they both returned to England travelling on the 'Duchess of York' Canadian Pacific Line arriving at Liverpool on the 29th November 1929.

On his return to England he married Lilian Dorothea Moon in 1930 in Bristol and together they had the following children:

Heather Olive Gosling

b1933

d1990

Heather married Noah Perkins on the 2nd October 1954 at Southmead Baptist Church, Bristol. They had two daughters, Nicola Jane, b1957, and Beverley Ann b1960

Walter died in 1963 at Ham Green Hospital, Pill, Bristol

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