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The mother of my informant as to Gough’s Manchester connexion 
had lived in the same street as the Goughs resided in, in Man- 
chester, and had said that she remembered Mr. Gough always 
went out with a dog and a walking-stick—small evidence this, 
perhaps, of his anti-Friendly ways; ‘and was a pleasant-looking 
young man. 
Miss Gough had kept by her some old family deeds, and 
kindly forwarded me any documents that seemed likely to let 
in light as to Charles Gough’s early history; from these I 
learned that Joseph Gough, son of Joseph Gough of Man- 
chester, gentleman, and Esther his late wife deceased, and 
Margaret Gough, daughter of Joseph Gough of Kirkby Kendal, 
shearman dyer, and Elizabeth his wife, had declared their intention 
of marrying before several meetings of the people called Quakers, 
and in the fear of God and before the assembly of the aforesaid 
people in the meeting house of Preston Patrick, Westmorland, did 
solemnly take one another for better or worse on the 26th day of 
the 6th month called June, in the year 1779. Sixteen friends and 
relatives witnessed the document of marriage. And I imagine, 
from the oil paintings that have come down to us of Joseph, in 
stock and wig, and his cousin Margaret in magnificent head-dress 
of silken damask, that they were as pretty a pair of lovers as might 
well be found at Preston Patrick meeting. 
Charles Gough, the son, was born, as an entry in the family 
Bible put it with preciseness, “on the eighteenth day of April, 
1782, at three-quarters of an hour past five o’clock in the 
morning.” And as I write there lies before me a little time-stained 
piece of parchment of interest, on which is written in the old 
Quaker birth-note style :— 
‘On the Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, called April, one thousand 
seven hundred and eighty-two, was born at Manchester, in the Parish of Man- 
chester, in the County of Lancaster, unto Joseph Gough, junr., and Margaret 
his wife, a son, who was named Charles. 
‘‘We who were present at the said Birth, have subscribed our names as 
witnesses thereof. 
*“DoroTHY STRETCH. 
‘SHANNAH Hopcson.” 
