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Name
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Gascoigne, Herbert
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Date of birth
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1870
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Location
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Kemble
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Notes
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Listed by Alfred Williams as H Gascoigne.
Birth / baptism
Somerset, Bath, 1869, Oct, Nov, Dec, Vol. 5c, p. 636, [Henry Herbert];
Bath, Somerset, c. 1870 [AB]
Marriage
Gloucestershire, Tetbury, 1891, Oct, Nov, Dec, Vol. 6a, p. 733, Herbert Gascoigne married Elizabeth Neale.
Death / burial
Gloucestershire, Cirencester, 1925, Vol. 6a, p 489, age. 55;
10 April, 1925 [AB].
Williams / others notes
Alfred Williams: The words I obtained of Mr H Gascoigne, blacksmith, Kemble, near Cirencester, who is a native of Somerset. Turpin and the lawyer, Gl 94.
Literate [AB]
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 27/11/20 p.3 [Local news, Poulton]
Herbert Gascoigne present at funeral of Richard Carpenter representing National Master Farriers’ Association.
NB photograph in Christian Brann, Kemble, Ewen and Poole Keynes (Kemble, 1990), p.38.
In the entry on Herbert Gascoign in the Gloucestershire Folk Map compiled by Yvette Staelens and C J Bearman, Bournemouth University, it says of Gascoigne, He is said to have been one of the finest cricketers ever to play for the village.
My particular thanks to Dr. C J Bearman who researched a number of Gloucestershire singers as part of the Singing Landscape Project, 2008 - 2010 with whose kind permission this note is reproduced.
