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Eliza Ann GOTHAN
1863 - 1864 (1 years)
Has 4 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Eliza Ann GOTHAN Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 10 Jun 1863 Langley Street, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, England 
- GRO ref: GOTHAN, Eliza Ann q2 1863 Stockton RD 10a 90; GRO online index does not show a mother's maiden name
Details from GRO register entry
I cannot find any evidence of a workhouse building being in Langley Street, so it appears Eliza was not born in the workhouse, but her mother was living there six days later when she was the informant for Eliza's birth.
Birth registration of Eliza Ann GOTHAN
GRO register entryGender Female Died 28 Oct 1864 Wasp Nest, 1, Calvert’s Lane, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, England Cause: Hydrocephalus (4 months) - GRO ref: GOFFAN, Eliza Ann q4 1864 Stockton RD 10a 43; GRO online index shows age at death as 1
Details from GRO register entry.
The informant was one Elizabeth GREY, present at the death, and resident at the Wasp Nest.
The Wasp's Nest is the name of a pub in Stockton, I guess that either Elizabeth Grey and Eliza's mother Mary were lodging and / or working at the pub, or maybe Elizabeth cared for young children so their mother's could work.
(n.b. I am showing the current - 2023 - address of the pub; sometimes a new premises will retain the old name so it may have been at a different location in 1864).
Death registration of Eliza Ann GOTHAN
GRO register entry
Eliza's mother was probably illiterate - she made her mark when informant for BMD events, so it is not surprising her married surname got spelt in a variety of ways, especially when she was not the informant, as here, where it got spelt as GOFFAN.Siblings1 sister Half-siblings2 half brothers (family of Anthony GOTHAN and Mary FITZSIMMONS) Half-siblings2 half brothers (family of Thomas HEPTON and Mary FITZSIMMONS) Patriarch & Matriarch 
[ - ? - ], d. Yes, date unknown (Father)
Mary BRANSON, b. Abt 1808, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, England, d. Dec Q 1883, Stockton Reg Dist, Co. Durham or Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 75 years) (Grandmother) Person ID I304963 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 23 Mar 2023
Father [ - ? - ], d. Yes, date unknown Mother Mary FITZSIMMONS, b. Abt 1833, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, England , d. Mar Q 1912, Stockton Reg Dist, Co. Durham or Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 79 years)
Other Partners: Anthony GOTHAN m. 12 Jul 1853; Thomas HEPTON m. Dec Q 1866Married Between 1860 and 1863 - Mary had two illegitimate daughters, one must have been conceived in 1860, the other in 1862. I am assuming that the first, Mary Jane, was illegitimate despite not knowing when Mary's husband, Anthony, died, as like her sister no father was named on her birth registration. (No mother's maiden name either, this was often omitted on the birth certificates for children of widows, despite the child and their mother's surname being different from their mother's maiden name).
The two daughters although shown here under one 'unknown' father may have had different fathers. She was not living with anyone at the time of the 1861 census, when she must have been pregnant.
Mary is shown in the 1911 census as having had 5 children, not 6, but both birth registrations name the mother as Mary, and I think it is the same one although it is just possible another Mary briefly had her surname recorded as Gothan.
That said, the no. of children given in 1911 should refer to those born to Mary's current marriage. There appears only to have been 2, so I am guessing she (or the workhouse in which she was living) mistakenly gave the total no. of children; this field was probably misunderstood and so contains the wrong info. more than any other. It could be, though, that Mary did have 3 others born to her second marriage, but who died soon after birth and whose births weren't registered, or she may have even counted stillbirths or mis-carriages.
Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry Family ID F301886 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: GOTHAN, Eliza Ann q2 1863 Stockton RD 10a 90; GRO online index does not show a mother's maiden name