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Sybilla HUNT
Abt 1817 - 1887 (~ 70 years)
Has 184 ancestors and 449 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Sybilla HUNT Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1817 Wormshill, Kent, England 
- (assumed from baptism, but also from censuses)
Baptised 27 Apr 1817 St. Giles’ Church, Wormshill, Kent, England Gender Female Census 6 Jun 1841 Standard Quay, Faversham, Kent, England Census 30 Mar 1851 Church Lane, Faversham, Kent, England Census 7 Apr 1861 Church Lane, Faversham, Kent, England Census 2 Apr 1871 15, Partridge Lane, Faversham, Kent, England Census3 Apr 1881 2, Abbey Street, Faversham, Kent, England Occupation Greengrocers Occupation 1887 Hop picking Died Between 29 Aug 1887 and 4 Sep 1887 Hernhill Marshes, Hernhill, Kent, England [1] - Disappeared then found dead in a dyke - see death cert and newspaper rpts. No evidence how she came to be there or what she had died of, but clearly there was a suspicion that she had been murdered. Or she may have died naturally and those who then robbed her dumped her there. Or perhaps she wasn't even robbed - maybe she suddenly lost her memory and wandered around, confused about where she should be going, dropping her items en route.
(Deathplace assumed from where her body was found).
South Eastern Gazette Report:
Under "Faversham" - "The Finding of a Woman in a Ditch. - The East Kent Coroner, R. M. Mercer, Esq., on Monday held an inquest at Hernhill, near Faversham, on the body of a woman named Sybella Goatham, aged 75, who was found lying dead in a ditch on Sunday morning. The deceased had been missing since Tuesday. On the morning on that day she left her home to go hop-picking. She stayed in the hopfield till four o'clock, and then started back home, but she never arrived. Her sons, aided by the police, searched for her in every direction, exploring fields, roads, woods, and even ponds, in the district, but without avail, and she was found by a stranger on Sunday morning lying in a ditch about four miles from any part of her road home, in an isolated spot of Hernhill marshes, there being no footpath near. Her shawl, bag, umbrella, and other articles, she had when she left the hop ground were missing. George Frederck Scott, who made an affirmation, told the coroner he was son-in-law of the deceased, and he was of opinion there had been foul play. In answer to the coroner, witness said he did not harbour suspicion against any particular person, but it seemed very strange that some of her clothing and other things were missing. The coroner suggested that the best thing the jury could do was to return an open verdict of "Found dead," and they did so.
Death certificate for Sybella Hunt Buried 7 Sep 1887 St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on microfilm, viewed in Canterbury Cathedral Archives)
"Sybella Goatham No. 1222., abode: Abbey st, buried: Sep 7, age: 75, C. E Donne Vicar" with comment in right margin "found dead in a ditch"
- under heading 'Burials in the Parish of Faversham in the County of Kent in the Year 1887'
(Archive reference U3/146/1/35, p. 153)
Siblings6 brothers and 4 sisters Half-siblings1 half sister (family of Richard HUNT and Frances CHAPPELL) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Notes - Name shown as Isabella in the bapt register entries for her children John and Maria.
Person ID I175 All | Teresa's direct ancestors, 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 Charles Goatham and Sybilla née Hunt, The descendants (and other halves) of George Goatham and Ann née Winch, The descendants (and other halves) of John Prior and Amy née Reynolds, The descendants (and other halves) of Richard Whitehead and Mary née Grigsby Last Modified 30 Jul 2023
Father Richard HUNT, b. Abt 1773, Lenham, Kent, England , d. Jan 1821, Wormshill, Kent, England (Age ~ 48 years)
Other Partners: Frances CHAPPELL m. 5 Mar 1795Mother Mary WHITEHEAD, b. Abt 1778, Stockbury, Kent, England , d. 23 Jun 1851, Wormshill, Kent, England (Age ~ 73 years)
Other Partners: John MILGATE m. Between 1821 and 1841Married 5 Feb 1799 St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Stockbury, Kent, England [2] Family ID F427 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Charles GOATHAM, b. Abt 1805, Bredgar, Kent, England , d. 24 Dec 1888, 2, Abbey Street, Faversham, Kent, England (Age ~ 83 years) Married 31 May 1835 St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England - Although both Charles and Sybella were shown as "otp" when they married in Chatham, I suspect that this was an address of convenience to enable them to be married here - see my notes about Medway marriages.
The witness James Goodhew may well have been the James Goodhew who would marry Charles' sister Maria two years later.
I have not found baptisms for most of Charles' and Sybilla's children; they do not seem to have been baptised at the Parish Church in Faversham. Maybe there is a clue in that in 1875 a Mr Goatham lent his van for conveying children to a Congreational Church picnic; had they started attending or at least having the children baptised at the Congregational Church? - to be investigated.
The marriage of Charles Goatham to Sybilla Hunt
Parish Register entry for the marriage of my gt gt grandparents (my only 2xgt grandparents to marry before the registration of BMDs began). This is from the registers for the now redundant Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Chatham, Kent.Occupation to 1887 Hop picking - From the records of the events surrounding Sybilla's death it is clear that she went hop-picking. She had probably done this many years, perhaps almost all of her life. She may well have even been taken along as a baby to the hop fields by her own mother.
During her married life Charles probably did not accompany her, due to his regular work, but even though living most of it in a town she was still close enough to hop fields to go hop picking from home. The children probably all went too, and assisted in hop picking once they were old enough.
Children12 children Last Modified 17 Mar 2022 Family ID F100 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Born - Abt 1817 - Wormshill, Kent, England 
Baptised - 27 Apr 1817 - St. Giles’ Church, Wormshill, Kent, England 
Married - 31 May 1835 - St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England Child - John GOATHAM - 10 Oct 1835 - Wormshill, Kent, England Child - Maria GOATHAM - 30 Nov 1837 - Wormshill, Kent, England Child - Edwin GOATHAM - 12 Dec 1839 - Wormshill, Kent, England 
Child - Charles GOATHAM - 27 May 1842 - Faversham, Kent, England Child - Emily GOATHAM - 30 Apr 1844 - Faversham, Kent, England Child - Amos GOATHAM - 28 Sep 1846 - Faversham, Kent, England Child - Frederick GOATHAM - 17 May 1849 - Faversham, Kent, England 
Census - 30 Mar 1851 - Church Lane, Faversham, Kent, England Child - Jabez GOATHAM - 14 Jul 1851 - Faversham, Kent, England Child - Mary Elizabeth ("Lizzie") GOATHAM - 27 May 1853 - Faversham, Kent, England 
Child - Elisha GOATHAM - 16 Oct 1856 - Abbey Street, Faversham, Kent, England Child - William Frank ("Frank") GOATHAM - 5 Jan 1860 - Faversham, Kent, England Census - 7 Apr 1861 - Church Lane, Faversham, Kent, England 
Child - Herbert GOATHAM - 18 Feb 1862 - Church Street, Faversham, Kent, England 
Census - 2 Apr 1871 - 15, Partridge Lane, Faversham, Kent, England 
Census - 3 Apr 1881 - 2, Abbey Street, Faversham, Kent, England 
Died - Between 29 Aug 1887 and 4 Sep 1887 - Hernhill Marshes, Hernhill, Kent, England 
Buried - 7 Sep 1887 - St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham, Kent, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Sources - [S103] Newspaper ‘The South Eastern Gazette’ onThe Kent Messenger Group Digital Archive, Kent., (http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/digitalarchive.aspx :), "Faversham - The Finding of a Woman in a Ditch," 10 9 1887, online archives (http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/getDocument/KMSG_1887_09_10_003?fileType=PDF&#search=%22goatham%22). (Reliability: 4), 25 Mar 2013.
p. 3, nearly half way down col. 2. - [S41] Stockbury Parish Registers (KFHS transcribed data), Kent Family History Society, accessed 2 Apr 2011), Entry for the marriage of Richard Hunt to Mary Whitehead. (Reliability: 3).
387 1799 Feb 5 Richard HUNT Wid X otp Mary WHITEHEAD Sp X otp Banns Wm Whitehead, William