Goulson Family Group Image c1860
L-R Richard (b1803), Valentine (b1820), Job (b1821) and Benjamin (b1813).
Job developed improvements to gas meters and patented his designs, he went on to become manager of a gas works in Berlin.
The image is a photocopy of the original photograph owned by Gavin Goulson (great grandson of the Valentine pictured), it is believed to date from around 1860 and probably taken in Lincoln.
Goulson Family Group Image c1860 cropped 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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