You need a (Known gold standard test solution) to test your stannous chloride.
Although most of the lead would form a precipitant of lead chloride, I do not think I would trust stannous chloride made with lead solder.
Try to find a more pure tin solder or tin source.
If too much chlorine the stannous chloride test will not reduce gold, you could take a small sample of the solution and heat it to drive off chlorine gas (if any is in solution) and retest it.
You state you had ferrous sulfate (copperas), Hoke's describes how to use a white spoon (or spot plate) and a few drops of solution to be tested, adding a crystal or two of ferrous sulfate, a brown ring of precipitated gold will form if gold is in solution.
Harold has also posted some very good posts on using ferrous sulfate in testing solution's
Understanding these tests are worth their weight in gold, studying them will pay you back in gold, practicing the experiments in Hokes book.
Using what she teaches, you to do some of your own experiments which can be very helpful.
Say I wanted to see how a tiny bit of chlorine would affect a test, I could do a small experiment.
I could take a small sample of the known standard gold solution, and do a test with my homemade stannous chloride , a positive violet color would prove my stannous chloride was working, now I could take another sample of the gold solution and add a drop of chlorine (sodium hypochlorite) and retest it, the negative test would prove the chlorine would not give a positive reaction (with gold known to be there, going further I could heat the sample drive off chlorine and retest...
With these small experiments use you imagination, to come up with your own test to learn more here is one I tried:
I had a gold solution on a q-tip which I added stannous chloride, I got a violet reaction, By holding this same Q-tip, in the fumes of another solution I was evaporating off the nitric from aqua regia, the positive reaction (violet disappeared) this showed me two things, that nitric was still coming off of the aqua regia solution as NOx fumes, and that the nitric formed on the Q-tip would redissolve, the violet colloidal gold, in the stannous test.