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Harriett Pemily EASON
1840 - 1907 (~ 67 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 139 descendants in this family tree.
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Name Harriett Pemily EASON Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Jun Q 1840 Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England 
- GRO ref: Eason, Harriett q2 1840 Milton RD 5 357; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Wiles
Her age given on most censuses suggests a date of birth in 1839 but this birth registration, though the index shows her only as Harriet Eason, is consistent with her baptism and with the earliest censuses which are most likely to have her age accurately. Index for age at death probably shows 66, also consistent with a birth in 1840.
Baptised 25 Dec 1840 Holy Trinity Church, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England - KFHS CD 02/07
Shows Harriett Pamla Dau of Edward and Harriett EASON, father a Waterman, abode Milton
Gender Female Residence 1841 High Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England - Living with her family
Education 1851 Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England Scholar Residence 1851 Flushing Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England - With her siblings in Flushing Street (still in Milton next Sittingbourne). In the census none was shown as 'head'; presumably her mother was, her father having died the previous year, although her mother was not at home at the time of the census. Harriet's mother was staying with her farm labourer brother and his family in Streatham, along with 2 children - older daughter Emma (17) and youngest son James (5 months). The care of Harriet and 4 other siblings, aged 3 to 12 was apparently entrusted to 14 year old Sarah.
Occupation 1861 The Golden Lion, Brook, Chatham, Kent, England House servant at pub - Harriet must have had a good training for her subsequent work at the Jolly Sailors at this establishment.
One of nine pubs in the Brook (according to an 1864 Ordnance Survey) the Golden Lion was in a street named after the waterway that travelled down it, although this became known as the Town Ditch, and something of an open sewer until pipe drains were laid in 1870. The Golden Lion was on the north-eastern corner of the higher ground, known then as Smithfield Bank.
The number of pubs points to the Brook being in a not exactly salubrious area of Chatham, where of course the naval base meant that there would have been plenty of sailors looking for drink (and more).
More information about the Brook can be found here and more about the history of the area here.
She was probably not there for much longer, as less than 3 weeks later she got married.
It was fortunate that she was not still working in Chatham when the Contagious Diseases Act made young women such as Harriet vulnerable to compulsory checks for venereal disease. Although it was intended that prostitutes were those checked, any young woman living or working in the areas covered (naval ports and army towns) could be suspected and arrested and subjected to degrading inspections without any evidence that she was a prostitute.
Occupation From 1871 to 1901 Jolly Sailors' Inn, 21, Flushing Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England Worked in Inn - One may assume that as well as looking after her young family Harriet would have assisted in the Jolly Sailors' Inn where her husband was publican. She may have even done the bulk of the work there, as Henry was also working as a sawyer for much of the time, and she kept the establishment going after his death, being shown as the licensed victualler in 1901.
Miscellaneous 1877 Sittingbourne, Kent, England Assaulted - In the Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 17 January, 1877
"At Sittingbourne, on Monday, Thomas Rumley, a barge-man, was charged with committing an aggravated assault upon Harriet Goatham, wife of a publican. Complainant asked their worships not to send defendant to gaol, on account of his wife and children. He was therefore fined £6., including costs."
Occupation 1901 Jolly Sailors' Inn, 21, Flushing Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England Licensed victualler - A widow, but still living at the Jolly Sailor Inn in 1901. She was then licensed victualler and with her was a general domestic servant (Lilly Sullivan, 17) and 2 grandaughters - Annie (10) and Daisy (6). (These last 2 seem to be also recorded with their parents and other grandparents!)
Died 13 Sep 1907 Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: GOATHAM, Harriett Pemley q3 1907 Milton RD 2a 489 - age unclear in index due to poor quality type; given as 96 on FreeBMD but could well be 66; GRO online index shows 66, which seems to be close to the correct age for Harriett.
Probate 19 Oct 1907 Canterbury, Kent, England National Probate Calendar Index entry - Goatham, Harriett Pemily of 18 Flushing-street Milton-next-Sittingbourne Kent widow died 13 September 1907 Probate Canterbury 19 October to Charles Henry Goatham fish-merchant Harry William Goatham licensed-victualler and William Dives coal-merchant Effects £1948 8s. 9d.
Siblings8 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Edward EASON, bap. 24 Oct 1802, Holy Trinity Church, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England, d. Jun Q 1850, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 47 years) (Father) 
Harriet Elizabeth WILES, b. Abt 1809, Old Romney, Kent, England, d. 14 Mar 1888, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 79 years) (Mother) Person ID I1902 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 11 Jan 2023
Father Edward EASON, bap. 24 Oct 1802, Holy Trinity Church, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England , d. Jun Q 1850, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 47 years) Mother Harriet Elizabeth WILES, b. Abt 1809, Old Romney, Kent, England , d. 14 Mar 1888, Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age ~ 79 years) Married 6 May 1828 Holy Trinity Church, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2 Sep 2021)
Family ID F4642 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Henry GOATHAM, b. Abt 1822, Bredgar, Kent, England , d. 8 Apr 1894, Jolly Sailors' Inn, 21, Flushing Street, Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent, England (Age ~ 72 years) Married 27 Apr 1861 St. Mary’s Church, Chatham, Kent, England - GRO ref: Goatham, Henry to Eason, Harriett Pemily q2 1861 Medway RD 2a 515
Although the marriage certificate shows both Henry and Harriet as resident in Chatham, Harriet had lived with her family in Flushing Street in Milton, where her mother and siblings were still living in 1861, although by then Harriet had moved to live where she was working, in Chatham. Less than 3 weeks before the wedding Henry was living with a sister and her family in Milton. Perhaps he described himself as living in Chatham to save the need to arrange for banns to be read in Milton.
While Harriet's residence in the parish would have enabled them legally to marry in Chatham, many marriages seemed to take place there where neither of the couple was resident. The large size of the parish and the number of transitory residents due to the dockyard probably made it effectively impossible to check that at least one of a couple was resident (as required by the 1753 Hardwicke Act)
Children4 children Last Modified 27 Nov 2016 Family ID F1469 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Eason, Harriett q2 1840 Milton RD 5 357; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Wiles