Arthur Norman Goss (1912-1988)

Dates

Birth: 3 April 1912 Stroud Green, Middlesex, UK
Father: Isaac Gostomska (Goss, Gostomski) 1880-1943
Mother: Grace Harriett Frances Frampton 1878-1961

Marriage: October-December 1937 Bromley, Kent, UK
Wife: Joyce Lester 1914-2010

Death: 24 April 1988 Flat 5, 9 Downleaze, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, Avon, UK

Children

Stephen C Goss 1943-a1965
Philippa C Goss [Jones] 1954-a2002

Notes

Birth of Arthur N Goss, mother's maiden name Frampton, in FreeBMD in April-June 1912 in Edmonton (3a 917).

His sister was born in Edmonton in 1916.

In the 1921 census as Arthur Goss born in Stroud Green, Middlesex in 1912 and living with Isaac and Grace Goss (parents?), Jack Goss (brother?) and Irene Goss (sister?) in Hornsey, Edmonton, Middlesex.

There are two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Arthur Norman Goss in 1936 and 1937 address 52 Aberdeen Park N5, Islington, other occupants Isaac and Grace Harriett Frances Goss (parents?), Jack Herbert Frampton Goss (brother?), Mabel Emily Goss (sister?), and Irene Ethel Goss in 1937 (sister?).

Marriage of Arthur N Goss and Joyce Lester in FreeBMD in October-December 1937 in Bromley (2a 1535).

Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Arthur Norman Goss address 8 Wentworth Park, N3, Finchley in 1939, other occupant Joyce Goss (wife?).

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Arthur N Goss born 3 April 1912, married, a printers representative, and living with Joyce Goss (wife?) at 8 Wentworth Park, Finchley, Middlesex.

His son was born in Witney in 1943 and daughter in Hampstead in 1954.

Nine entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Arthur N Goss from 1956 to 1965 address 3 Wild Wood Road NW11, Barnet, Hendon, other occupants Joyce Goss (wife?) and Stephen C Goss (son?) in 1965.

He was left £2991 6s. 3d in 1960 by Florence Annie Lester and £8923 13s. 8d in 1961 by Lilian Lester, his wife's aunts.

There are seventeen entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for Arthur N Goss address 19 Holloy Park N3 number FINchley 5379 in 1944 to 1948, 2 Maurice Walk NW11 MEAdway 3534 in 1949 to 1955, 3 Woldwood Road NW11 MEAdway 3534 in 1959 to 1964, 67 Southway NW11 01 458 3534 in 1967 and 1968, and Park House, Park Lane Blagdon 62535 in 1980 to 1983.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Arthur Norman Goss, born on 3 April 1912, in April 1988 in Bristol (22 326).

Entry in Ancestry London, England, Death Notices from The Times, 1982-1988 for Arthur Norman Goss died on 24 April 1988, published 27 April 1988, spouse Joyce Goss.

Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Arthur Norman Goss died 24 April 1988 in Downleaze, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, probate 25 July 1988 in London. "Goss, Arthur Norman of Flat 5 Downleaze Stoke Bishop Bristol died 24 April 1988 Probate London 25 July £171253".

Entry in British History Online

The weekly Hampstead and Highgate Express was founded at Hampstead in 1860. Known as the 'Hamand High' and vigorously independent, it was edited for c. 35 years from 1862 by George Jealous, whose neighbour's schoolboy son Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, wrote for the newspaper c.1880. Ownership passed to trustees in the 1930s, then to the Goss family, and in 1964 from Arthur Norman Goss to Home Counties Newspapers, of Luton. For many years the paper was produced at Hampstead's only printing works in the former Baptist chapel, Holly Bush Hill. The staff moved in1961 to new offices in Perrin's Court, where, although printing was done at Luton, it remained in 1986. From: 'Hampstead: Social and Cultural Activities', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 81-91.

There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Arthur Norman Goss.

Relationship

Arthur Norman Goss was the husband of Joyce Lester, my half third cousin.

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