People search
(married name will be ignored if broad check is ticked;
a broad check includes a search for nicknames, married names and other alternative names)Where were they from?
Search for places, see all people in the tree with events in that place, and (where added) see places marked on a map with photos, links and other information about the location.
Mary GOATHAM
Abt 1786 - 1850 (~ 64 years) Has 43 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.Set As Default Person
-
Name Mary GOATHAM Relationship with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1786 Bredgar, Kent, England Baptised 3 Sep 1786 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 April 2019)
Gender Female Residence 1841 Cottage, Upper Ham Farm, Lenham, Kent, England Died 1 Feb 1850 Lenham, Kent, England Cause: Bronchorrhea - From the censuses Mary appears to have died between 1841 (when with her husband Isaac) and 1851 (by which time Isaac was a widower).
Although three Mary Boormans (plus a Mary Elizabeth Boorman) died in Hollingbourn RD between 1842 and 1850, the GRO online index having ages shows that only one could possibly be this Mary:
GRO ref: BOORMAN, Mary q1 1850 Hollingbourn RD 5 211; GRO online index shows age at death as 63
Actual date, place and cause from her death registration (GRO register entry). This appears to show cause as something like 'Bronchorhiea'; 'Bronchorrhea' seems the closest word that makes sense.
Buried 11 Feb 1850 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - From KFHS transcribed data (CD 19) - shows Mary Boorman, aged 63, abode Lenham.
In his will her husband expressed a wish to be buried in Bredgar (which he was) and for an inscription added to a stone and repair of railings already present, presumably for Mary.
There is no record of a grave for Isaac and Mary in the record of Bredgar graves on CD 39 (recorded by Helen Allinson in 1994), so unless it one of the graves then inaccessible due to brambles it probably does not survive.
Siblings 3 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch GOATHAM, d. Yes, date unknown (6 x Great Grandfather)
Mary HARBULT, b. Est 1736, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Notes - A Mary, prob this one, was a witness (signed her name) to the wedding of Edward Boorman to Charlotte Stone(?) in Lenham 8 Jan 1820; also to the wedding of Richard Hales to Sarah Wells, 4 Jan 1813 in Lenham (made her mark) (both times the other signatory was Isaac Boorman, who made his mark).
(Info from KFHS CD 16 - Vol 4)
It seems reasonable to suppose that the Mary Goatham who had an illegitimate dau baptised in Lenham, the Mary who witnessed marriages with Isaac Boorman in Lenham and the Mary who eventually married Isaac and was with him in Lenham in 1841 is the same Mary. Mary's age was recorded as 52 on 6 Jun 1841, suggesting she was born 1788 or 1789, close enough to 1786 to seem to confirm my belief it was this Mary. Except I now find the marriage entry shows her as a widow! Given that the marriage took place in Maidstone where presumably Mary and Isaac were not known, Mary could have passed herself off as a widow - to explain her dau Rebecca?
If she were a widow it could explain why she did not marry Isaac until 1829 - she may have separated from her husband but could not have remarried until he died - which he may have in 1829. But in 1806 her daughter was described as "baseborn". This would imply that Mary was single or, I think, a widow of more than 9 months when Rebecca was born.
But I haven't come across any Mary born close to 1788/9 who married a Goatham (apart from one in London, who seems clearly to have married a Devon Gotham). The closest Kent Marys I'm aware of who married Goathams were born about 1765 and 1817!
Person ID I1624 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 12 Aug 2023
Father Michael GOATHAM, b. 1762, Tonge, Kent, England , bur. 15 Apr 1832, St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) Mother Rebecca RANDALL, b. Abt 1767, d. Dec 1835, Bredgar, Kent, England (Age ~ 68 years) Banns of marriage From 19 Feb 1786 to 12 Mar 1786 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - From register entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 April 2019)
Married 7 Apr 1786 St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England - From register entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 April 2019) Michael's surname was entered as Gotham, but he signed Goatham.
Ba and sp, both otp, by banns; witnesses John Medhurst and Stephen Roper (the latter may have been Parish Clerk - he was witness to many marriages around this time).
Family ID F273 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Isaac BOORMAN, b. Abt 1789, d. Jun Q 1873, Hollingbourne Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 84 years) Married 21 Nov 1829 All Saints’ Church, Maidstone, Kent, England - From KFHS CD 26
Isaac Boorman, bach, otp to Mary Goatham, widow, otp, by banns, witnesses John Goldsmith and Richard Martin
Children 1. Rebecca GOATHAM, b. Abt 1806, bur. 17 Mar 1831, All Saints’ Church, Eastchurch, Sheppey, Kent, England (Age ~ 25 years) ▻ James RENWELL m. 8 Dec 1830Last Modified 18 Mar 2017 Family ID F830 Family Group Page | Family Chart
-
Event Map Click to hide Born - Abt 1786 - Bredgar, Kent, England Baptised - 3 Sep 1786 - St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England Married - 21 Nov 1829 - All Saints’ Church, Maidstone, Kent, England Residence - 1841 - Cottage, Upper Ham Farm, Lenham, Kent, England Died - Cause: Bronchorrhea - 1 Feb 1850 - Lenham, Kent, England Buried - 11 Feb 1850 - St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend