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Sarah DIGANCE
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Name Sarah DIGANCE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1833 Eastergate, Sussex, England
- From age given at the registration of her death (75->1833 or 4) and in the 1881 census (45->1835 or 6); place from the 1851, 1861 and 1881 censuses (just shown as Sussex in 1871)
Relationship to parents assumed; only with them in the 1841 census.
Gender Female Residence From 1871 to 1881 39, Queen Street, Marylebone, London, England
- From the 2 censuses
Occupation 1881 Marylebone, London, England
Provision dealer Will 11 Jul 1905 Written Residence to 1909 Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex, England
- Her home at the time of her death.
Sarah was living at 6 Chapel Street in 1901 with her brother George and his wife, also Sarah.
Died 2 Nov 1909 Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex, England
[1] - Actual date and place from National Probate Calendar
Probate 30 Nov 1909 Chichester, Sussex, England
Probate Calendar entry - Gotham Sarah of Chapel-street Bognor Sussex widow died 2 November 1909 Probate Chichester 30 November to Harry Hartley fruit grower and William Walder parish clerk. Effects £27.
Siblings3 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch
Francis DIGANCE, b. Abt 1795, d. Jun Q 1845, Westhampnett Reg Dist, Sussex, England
(Age ~ 50 years) (Father) 
Mary HAINES, b. Abt 1759, bur. 2 Mar 1808, All Hallows’ Church, Tillington, Sussex, England
(Age ~ 49 years) (Grandmother) 
Person ID I300577 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 21 Sep 2023
Father Francis DIGANCE, b. Abt 1795, d. Jun Q 1845, Westhampnett Reg Dist, Sussex, England
(Age ~ 50 years) Mother Elizabeth HARTLEY, b. 1787, Kirdford, Sussex, England
, d. Jun Q 1859, Westhampnett Reg Dist, Sussex, England
(Age 72 years) Marriage License 1 Dec 1815 Archdeaconry Court of Chichester, Sussex, England
- Shows Elizabeth Hartley, spinster, aged 21 [sic!], of Eastergate to marry Francis Digance, bachelor, aged 20, of Alverstoke, Hampshire, with the consent of his father, John Digance, labourer. To marry at Eastergate.
Sponsors: J. D. Charles Murrell, harness maker of Eastergate.
(from Sussex Marriage Index)
Married 2 Dec 1815 Eastergate, Sussex, England
- From transcribed data on the Sussex FHG Marriage Index
Shows Elizabeth Hartley married Francis Digance of Alverstoke, Hampshire at Eastergate
Family ID F301009 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Samuel George (“George”) GOTHAM, b. 21 Mar 1824, Marylebone, London, England
, d. 17 Sep 1872, 39, Queen Street, Marylebone, London, England
(Age 48 years) Married 9 Nov 1861 St. Andrew’s Church, Oving, Sussex, England
[2] - From PR entry (image on FamilySearch, a clearer image now also on Ancestry)
"1861 Marriage solemnized at the Parish church in the Parish of Oving, in the County of Sussex
No. 140, November 9th 1861, Samuel George Gotham, Age: 37, Bachelor, Butcher, residence: All Souls Marylebone Middlesex, father: Samuel Gotham, Bricklayer
Sarah Digance, Age: 28, Spinster, [no occupation given], residence: Oving, father: Francis Digance, Labourer
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, after Banns, by me, A Birrell, M.A. Vicar
This Marriage was solemnized between us, Samuel George Gotham, Sarah Digance
in the Presence of us, George Digance X his mark, Sarah Digance O her mark"
Last Modified 21 Sep 2023 Family ID F300210 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From age given at the registration of her death (75->1833 or 4) and in the 1881 census (45->1835 or 6); place from the 1851, 1861 and 1881 censuses (just shown as Sussex in 1871)
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Born - Abt 1833 - Eastergate, Sussex, England 


Married - 9 Nov 1861 - St. Andrew’s Church, Oving, Sussex, England 


Occupation - Provision dealer - 1881 - Marylebone, London, England 


Residence - to 1909 - Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex, England 


Died - 2 Nov 1909 - Chapel Street, Bognor, Sussex, England 


Probate - Probate Calendar entry - 30 Nov 1909 - Chichester, Sussex, England 

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Sources - [S336] FreeBMD, FreeBMD, (( http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ )), accessed 4 Sep 2014), Death of Sarah GOTHAM. (Reliability: 3).
GRO ref: GOTHAM, Sarah age 75 q4 1909 Westhampnett RD 2b 241
image checked - [S336] FreeBMD, FreeBMD, (( http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ )), accessed 4 Sep 2014), Marriage of Samuel George GOTHAM to Sarah DIGANCE. (Reliability: 3).
GRO ref: Gotham, Samuel George to Digance, Sarah q4 1861 Westhampnett RD 2b 549
both images checked


