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30-01-13, 20:57
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Historical Directories, can anyone make this out?
White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham, 1901
37 Harcourt Road Page John Goulson ?? merchant  1901 Sheffield by Glen TK2, on Flickr
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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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30-01-13, 21:02
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Mmmm, 1901 census he is a draper so wonder if it is felt merchant?
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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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30-01-13, 21:55
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I can't think of anything else it could be.
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30-01-13, 23:08
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It's fent merchant, fents being what are nowadays called remnants.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p...ant%22&f=false
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31-01-13, 09:25
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Quote:
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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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01-02-13, 16:38
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What a shame we've lost that word. I like the sound of fents. Remnants sounds tattier somehow.
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02-02-13, 22:16
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03-02-13, 22:37
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I've found a couple of news reports from the early 1900's quoting P J Goulson as a fent merchant, seems a hawker stole 40 yards of cloth from his shop and was given two months imprisonment with hard labour.
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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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