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William GOTHAM
Abt 1782 - 1843 (~ 61 years)
Has 12 ancestors and 473 descendants in this family tree.
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Name William GOTHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1782 - Rounded down age given as 60 in 1841 census, implying born between 1776 and 1781; however, it looks as though William may have rounded his age up slightly, being probably a few months off 60 (depending on age at baptism) at the time of the census.
Baptised 15 Mar 1782 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Wolborough, Devon, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 2014)
"Day of the Month: 15 Baptized William Son of William & Mary Gotham" (under headings '1782' and 'March')
Gender Male Proof ArgumentThat this was this William who married Sarah LEES Occupation 1841 Pottery Presser Died Sep Q 1843 Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England - Place and age at burial point to the death being this William
GRO ref: GOTHAM, William q3 1843 Stoke on Trent RD 17 106; GRO online index shows died aged 66
Buried 3 Aug 1843 St. Mark’s Church, Shelton, Staffordshire, England - Shown as aged 66 (according to data transcribed on FreeReg).
I did wonder if this should have been 60 and the second 6 has been mis-read somewhere, but as the same age appears on the death certificate and in the burial register it was probably mis-reported.
Siblings2 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Andrew GOTHAM, b. Est 1585, (probably), Abbotskerswell, Devon, England, bur. 10 Mar 1673/74, St. Mary the Virgin Church, Wolborough, Devon, England (Age ~ 89 years) (3 x Great Grandfather) 
Elizabeth WARD, bap. 10 Mar 1716/17, All Saints’ Church, Highweek, Devon, England, d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother) Person ID I300668 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 27 Jul 2022
Father William GOTHAM, bap. 14 Oct 1750, St. Bartholomew’s Church, East Ogwell, Devon, England , bur. 10 Jun 1808, St. Andrew’s Church, Ipplepen, Devon, England (Age ~ 57 years) Mother Mary RENDLE, bap. 9 Dec 1746, St. Bartholomew’s Church, East Ogwell, Devon, England , bur. 1 Apr 1816, St. Andrew’s Church, Ipplepen, Devon, England (Age ~ 69 years) Married 17 Dec 1775 St. Bartholomew’s Church, East Ogwell, Devon, England - PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Nov 2014)
"Banns of Marriage between William Gotham Sojr: & Mary Rendle of this Parish were publish'd on three several Sundays wthout Contradiction
No. 89
William Gotham a sojour
and Mary Rendle of this
Parish were
Married in this Church by Banns
this seventeenth Day of December in the Year One Thousand Seven
Hundred and seventy five by me Thos. Prout Rector
This Marriage was solemnized between Us The mark X of Wm. Gotham, The mark \\ of Mary Rendle
In the Presence of John Jinny(?), John Knatman"
Proof Argument That is was William son of Matthew and Jane who married Mary RENDLE - William, son of Matthew and Jane, came from East Ogwell and yet the PR entry for this marriage shows William described as a sojourner. So was it this William? I believe it was. I would suggest that he had moved away and then briefly back to the parish before his marriage. The first 4 children from this marriage were baptised in Wolborough (Newton Abbot) and so it is reasonable to suppose that William had found work there, married a bride from his home parish, and then settled with her near / in Wolborough, possibly later moving to Ipplepen Parish. It is possible they lived in Ipplepen Parish the whole time; the baptism of their first child although in Wolborough records them as of Ipplepen, although this was not subsequently noted.
The names that William who married Mary Rendle gave his sons does suggest he was the son of Matthew and Jane; assuming he was, he named his first son Matthew, like his father and a brother, the second, William, like himself, and the third Thomas, like his other brother.
Proof Argument That the children shown were all offspring of this William and Mary - Were all the children the offspring of this couple? A William Gotham was baptised in Ipplepen in 1768; clearly he could not have been the William who married Mary Rendle, but he would have been old enough to have had a son Thomas baptised in 1790 and / or could have been the William buried in Ipplepen in 1808.
With no signs of a marriage of another William that I know of, I think Thomas was the son of this William (from East Ogwell) and Mary.
Widow Mary buried in Ipplepen in 1816 was born about 1746 - early enough that it was very unlikely she was the wife of the William baptised in 1768. In addition, William and Mary disappear from East Ogwell and must have gone somewhere, and an Elizabeth who fits as their daughter married in Ipplepen. The best evidence that they moved to Ipplepen may be that Matthew, the mariner who fits as their son, is shown first as of East Ogwell and then later as of Ipplepen in crew lists (the ages given in the different references suggest they are to the same Matthew). Whilst that makes Thomas being their son more likely it does not confirm it.
More evidence can be found by looking at the family of William bap 1768. It is clear that he was the son of John and Elizabeth née Pinson. He was probably the 2nd cousin once removed of the William who married Mary Rendle. However, he had no brother Matthew nor any close Gotham relation with that name, a name far less common that William / John / Thomas. Yet the Thomas bap in 1790 after naming a son William (like his father) and another Thomas (his own name) gave his third son the name Matthew. In addition, one of Thomas' sons married Eliza Simcock, sister of Elizabeth Simcock who married one of the sons of William, son of William and Mary née Rendle. Both were living in large towns, about 50 miles apart so the chance of these marriages happening by chance must be vanishingly small. It is surely far more likely that the two Gothams would have married the Simcock sisters if they were 1st cousins and not 4th cousins?
Family ID F300234 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Sarah LEES, b. Abt 1784, d. Mar Q 1839, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age ~ 55 years) Married 22 Dec 1806 St. Bartholomew’s Church, Norton le Moors, Staffordshire, England - From PR entry (image on FMP)
Baptisms of Mary to Herbert indicate these were the 9 to 13th children of William and Sarah.
Of the earlier 8 I have found evidence of 7.
Children13 children Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 Family ID F300408 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Baptised - 15 Mar 1782 - St. Mary the Virgin Church, Wolborough, Devon, England 
Child - William GOTHAM - Abt 1806 - Staffordshire, England 
Married - 22 Dec 1806 - St. Bartholomew’s Church, Norton le Moors, Staffordshire, England 
Child - Elizabeth GOTHAM - Abt 1810 - Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England Child - Thomas GOTHAM - 26 Oct 1812 - Staffordshire, England Child - John GOTHAM - Abt 1818 - Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England 
Child - George GOTHAM - 8 Apr 1828 - Shelton, Staffordshire, England 
Died - Sep Q 1843 - Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England 
Buried - 3 Aug 1843 - St. Mark’s Church, Shelton, Staffordshire, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
