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As regards the name Gosport. There is a small, south Alabama town by that name. It's in the deep south
and close to cajun country. I wonder if there is some connection with the colony of French who, I believe, were Huegenots who made a home in Gosport. My father was a milk delivery man in
the late 1930s and part of his round was a collection of houses between Leesland Lane and Trafalgar Square ( a small street across the street from the Criterion Cinema). There was an archway at
the entrance to the little enclave and I was told that the occupants were French. The site is directly across from the old wallpaper factory. (At the time called Asleys, now the Sanderson
Business Centre). Many French Heugenots settled in the Louisiana Territory and I wonder if there is a connection.
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