I'm fortunate that some items from the family not only survive but come up on auction sites at prices I can, (at times), afford to pay. They often link to newspaper articles and census returns so I have been able to build a real picture of one ancestor, sadly the one item I can't find is a photograph of him, I have bottles, certs, census, probate, news stories etc, a photograph would really round off the collection nicely.
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Joseph Goulson 1707-1780
My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid
My coal is spent, my iron's gone
My nails are drove, my work is done
Lord receive my soul
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