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Mary GOATHAM
Est 1713 - 1765 (~ 52 years)
Has no ancestors but 21 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Mary GOATHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1713 - Estimate from date of marriage and of baptisms of her children
Gender Female Buried 24 Feb 1765 Holy Cross Church, Hoath, Kent, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 4 Feb 2018)
"Feb:y 24 Mary Rayner Afft." - under heading '1765'
Notes - (Research):Mary was "of this parish" (i.e. Hoath) when she married, but I don't know of any Goatham family in Hoath after Edward, Mary's gt gt uncle, died in 1688. It looks like she had moved from elsewhere; I wondered if the Ramsgate Goathams kept in touch with cousins in Hoath that led her to move to the area.
However, I've now found marriages in 1722 and 1729 of Marys from Ramsgate, which seems to suggest it wasn't one of the two I know of there that married Henry Rayner.
I think that Mary was most likely the daughter of Richard Goatham and Mary née Cock, who had a number of children born between 1690 and (probably) 1713. There appears to have been a gap between 1707 and 1712, although a daughter buried in 1713/1714 was described as an infant; could she have been so described if born in that gap? I think it possible but unlikely, especially as I have found no baptism - she may have been baptised at home because sick, an event more likely to have been accidentally omitted, or perhaps died before she could be baptised.
I think it very likely there was another child born in that gap. Could that child have been Mary? I think it quite likely it was.
Goatham was a very rare name at this time, and looking at couples / individuals whose
Person ID I1632 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 Last Modified 5 Feb 2018
Family Henry RAYNER, b. Est 1710, bur. Holy Cross Church, Hoath, Kent, England Married 30 Jan 1732/33 Holy Cross Church, Hoath, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2012)
"Henry Rayner of Chislet S.M. by Banns Jany 30
& Mary Goatham of Hoath S.W. "
Children8 children Last Modified 4 Feb 2018 Family ID F3737 Family Group Page | Family Chart