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Gosine family’s move to Kentucky then on to Newfoundland

Black and white portrait. 11 people sitting outside the front of a building. There are six women sitting and kneeling, one woman standing at the back right, and one man standing at the back left. One of the women on the right is holding a baby and there is a little girl and a toddler sitting in the front. The women and girls are all wearing dresses or skirts and shirts, and the man is wearing a dress shirt, vest, tie, and pants.

Photo: Joseph Charles Sapp stands in the back of the group. Source: Marina Owens.

Recorded audio interview with Mary Catherine Ryan completed by Terra Barrett of Heritage NL.

TRANSCRIPT:
My great grandfather was Michael Joseph Gosine or Ghousein and came from a little village Hadath el Jebbeh in Lebanon/Syria. Because I am thinking this was part of Syria, Syria was a part of this at one point and then I guess the borders had changed. So he came over apparently and settled in Kentucky. The area of Kentucky. I guess secured a place to live, went back to Lebanon and collected his wife and children and then came back again. I think it was Ashland, Kentucky. One of his children I know, Ellen, which my mother affectionately called Ollie, Aunt Ollie. She actually married a person from that area in Kentucky from the old country and then they moved to Portugal Cove, Bell Island area. So as far as I know they did come to Kentucky and then settle there for a little while. And Aunt Ollie, Ellen, she married a Joseph Sapp and I think they had one child but she died at age one I think.