Walter GOATHAM

1870 - 1921  (~ 51 years)

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• Name	Walter GOATHAM
  Relationship	with Teresa Ann GOATHAM
  Born	Mar Q 1870	Bredgar, Kent, England
  	GRO ref: Goatham, Walter q1 1870 Milton RD 2a 826; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Manser
  Baptised	3 Apr 1870	St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 19 Jun 2019) Abode Bredgar, father Joseph shown as a sawyer.
  Gender	Male
  Education	Scholar
  	1881
  Occupation	Sawyer
  	Between 1891 and 1894	Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  	From the census and his marriage PR entry
  Residence	From 1895 to 1900	Bredgar, Kent, England
  	When his eldest 3 children were baptised
  Occupation	Labourer
  	From 1895 to 1897
  	When his eldest 2 children were baptised
  Occupation	Fruiterer
  	1900
  	When his daughter Maisie was baptised
  Occupation	General labourer
  	1901	Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  	Shown as worker at home
  Residence	1902	Swanton Street, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	When his daughter Dorothy was baptised
  Occupation	Fruit dealer
  	1902
  	When his daughter Dorothy was baptised
  Residence	1904
  	When his daughter Hilda Mary was baptised. The family were quite likely still in Swanton Street where they had been two years earlier when daughter Dorothy had been baptised.
  Occupation	Fruiterer
  	1904	Bredgar, Kent, England
  Residence	From 1906 to 1910	Little Rushet Farm, Norton, Kent, England
  	Between the baptism of daughter Hilda in 1904 and son Henry  in 1906 the family appear to have moved from Bredgar to Norton.
  Occupation	Farmer
  	From 1906 to 1910	Little Rushet Farm, Norton, Kent, England
  	Sometime between 1904 and 1906 Walter seems to have switched from being a fruit dealer to a farmer - or to have added another string to his bow. Still a farmer in 1910, by the time of the 1911 census Walter was a dealer in Sittingbourne. Possibly he had had to give up the farm after a fire in August 1910, which was reported thus in the South Eastern Gazette (9 Aug, 1910, p. 6, col. 4, in the section entitled "County News"): "Norton Farm fire. - On Wednesday morning a fire broke out in a barn at Little Rushet Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Goatham. The flames rapidly spread and involved all the farm buildings, and when the Faversham Fire Brigade arrived they found the farmhouse just catching alight. The house and contents were saved, but all the farm buildings were destroyed, the damage being estimated at from £600 to £700. Mr. Goatham was away from home at the time. The cause of the fire is not known."
  Residence	From 1911 to 1915	27, Cockleshell Walk, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  	Shown as 4 rooms in the 1911 census. They probably lived there many more years (known dates are 1911 - census, 1915 - daughters marriage and in when son Sidney invalided out of the army.
  Occupation	General dealer
  	1911	Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  Occupation	Fruiterer
  	From 1915 to 1921
  	According to his daughter Ediths's marriage PR entry and his father's will (probate index entry)
  Residence	1921	Deans Hill Farm, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	Described as of this address at the time of his death (in the probate index) With parents, 1891 living in Swanton St., Bredgar (1901);
  Died	Cause: Chronic Interstitial Nephritis/Syncope
  	19 Sep 1921	Deans Hill Farm, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	GRO ref: GOATHAM, Walter aged 51 q3 1921 Milton RD 2a 1005 Date and place from death announcement in the East Kent Gazette, 24 Sep 1921, p1. col. 1: "Goatham - At Dean's Hill Farm, Bredgar, on September 19th, Walter Goatham, aged 51 years. Interment in Sittingbourne Cemetery, Saturday, September 24th, at 3 o'clock."
  Buried	24 Sep 1921	Sittingbourne Cemetery, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  	From newspaper notice of death, which showed interment was to take place at 3pm.
  Probate	Calendar entry
  	7 Nov 1921	London, England
  	Goatham Walter of Deans Hill Farm Bredgar Kent died 19 September 1921 Probate London 7 November to Sarah Edith Goatham widow. Effects £1966 19s. 10d.
  Execution of Estate	Sale of Farming Stock
  	20 Oct 1924	Deans Hill Farm, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	Under the heading 'Sales by Auction' the following notice appeared in the East Kent Gazette of 18 Oct., 1924: "Dean's Hill Farm, Bredgar Have of the late Mr. Walter Goatham, to Sell by Auction, on the premises, on Monday, 20th October, 1924, at 1.30 o'clock precisely, the Live and Dead Farming Stock and effects including : - 2 draft horses, Mower, McCormick's self-binder, Kent plough, water barrs, timber tug, waggon, van, harness, light fruit cart, dung cart, brakes, harrows, ladders, 120 sheep gales, weighing machine, drills, sail cloth, etc.   Catalogues of the Auctioneers, Sittingbourne."
  Person ID	I493	All | England: Kent Group (in Go(a)tham One-Name Study), England: Kent Group - subjects of Go(a)tham One-Name Study, All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study, The descendants (and other halves) of George Goatham and Ann née Winch
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Joseph GOATHAM,   b. 1840, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 27 Apr 1921, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Susan Eliza (“Eliza”) MANSER,   b. Mar Q 1842, Rye, Sussex, England ,   d. 27 Apr 1915, 167, East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent, England  (Age ~ 73 years)
  Married	27 Apr 1865	St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England
  	GRO ref:  q2 1865 Medway RD, Kent  2a 562 (Joseph indexed both as GOATHAN and GOATHAM) The 1911 census confirms that Joseph and Susan had had 9 children, with 6 still living. Only 30 year old Augustus was by then living with them, at Little Bushell, Norton, Faversham.
  Children	9 children
  1. Henry Campany GOATHAM,   b. Mar Q 1866, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 27 Jul 1888, Catalan Bay, Gibralter  (Age ~ 22 years) 2. Thomas Edward GOATHAM,   b. 25 Nov 1867, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 18 Nov 1940, Ripley Township, Huron Co., Ohio, USA  (Age 72 years) + 3. Walter GOATHAM,   b. Mar Q 1870, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 19 Sep 1921, Deans Hill Farm, Bredgar, Kent, England  (Age ~ 51 years)   4. Nellie GOATHAM,   b. Jun Q 1872, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 8 Mar 1878, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England  (Age ~ 6 years) + 5. Amos GOATHAM,   b. Jun Q 1874, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 14 May 1939, 1, North Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England  (Age ~ 65 years) + 6. William GOATHAM,   b. 1 Dec 1875, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 15 Dec 1941, 144, London Road, Teynham, Kent, England  (Age 66 years) + 7. Percy John GOATHAM,   b. Dec Q 1877, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 24 Mar 1927, The Hut, Pettfield, Bredgar, Kent, England  (Age ~ 50 years)   8. Norman GOATHAM,   b. 15 Jun 1880, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 13 Mar 1882, Bredgar, Kent, England  (Age 1 years)   9. Augustus GOATHAM,   b. 15 Jun 1880, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 15 Mar 1917, Straits Of Dover, Kent, England  (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F338	|  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Edith HADLOW,   b. 23 Jun 1866, Borden, Kent, England ,   d. 7 Oct 1946, 9, Orchard Cottages, Church Road, Murston, Kent, England  (Age 80 years)
  Married	15 Nov 1894	St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England
  	GRO ref: Goatham, Walter to Hadlow, Sarah Edith q4 1894 Milton RD 2a 1699 Details from PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 20 Jun 2019) Sarah being illegitimate her mother's name was entered as her father, though no occupation was given. Witnesses were Alice Ann Clifford, Edward Millington and Minnie Millington, the last two being half siblings of the bride.  The 1911 census shows that Walter and Sarah had had 6 children, all still living then - and with them at the time of the census.
  Children	6 children
  + 1. Edith Irene GOATHAM,   b. 29 Sep 1895, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 9 Apr 1960, 25, Shakespeare Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, England  (Age 64 years) + 2. Sidney Howard GOATHAM,   b. 28 Oct 1897, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. Jun Q 1953, 9, Orchard Cottages, Church Road, Murston, Kent, England  (Age 55 years) + 3. Maisie GOATHAM,   b. 16 Jan 1900, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 27 Jul 1989  (Age 89 years)   4. Dorothy Edna GOATHAM,   b. 10 Jul 1902, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. Feb 1994, Canterbury Reg Dist, Kent, England  (Age 91 years) + 5. Hilda Mary GOATHAM,   b. 16 Jul 1904, Bredgar, Kent, England ,   d. 3 Jul 1965, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester, Kent, England  (Age 60 years) + 6. Corporal Henry Campeny GOATHAM,   b. 17 Sep 1906, Norton, Kent, England ,   d. 3 Aug 1965, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  (Age 58 years)
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2019
  Family ID	F366	|  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - Mar Q 1870 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Baptised - 3 Apr 1870 - St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England  Occupation - Sawyer - Between 1891 and 1894 - Sittingbourne, Kent, England  Married - 15 Nov 1894 - St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England  Residence - From 1895 to 1900 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Edith Irene GOATHAM - 29 Sep 1895 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Sidney Howard GOATHAM - 28 Oct 1897 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Maisie GOATHAM - 16 Jan 1900 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Occupation - General labourer - 1901 - Sittingbourne, Kent, England  Residence - 1902 - Swanton Street, Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Dorothy Edna GOATHAM - 10 Jul 1902 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Occupation - Fruiterer - 1904 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Hilda Mary GOATHAM - 16 Jul 1904 - Bredgar, Kent, England  Child born - Corporal Henry Campeny GOATHAM - 17 Sep 1906 - Norton, Kent, England  Residence - From 1911 to 1915 - 27, Cockleshell Walk, Sittingbourne, Kent, England  Occupation - General dealer - 1911 - Sittingbourne, Kent, England  Probate - Calendar entry - 7 Nov 1921 - London, England   = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
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