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Matthew GOTHAM
1580 - 1580 (~ 0 years)
Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Matthew GOTHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 18 Jan 1579/80 Holy Trinity Church, Torbryan, Devon, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 14 Nov 2014)
"Matteus Gotham [1580o] Januarii 18o" - under heading 'BAPtizati'
Year is clearly 'New Style' in the register.
I am not certain Matthew was the son of Thomas, and given he appears to have died in infancy it is very unlikely that any evidence survives to confirm or disprove this.
Very few Gotham 'CMB' events in Torbryan, but these include 3 baptisms 1580-1585. It seems reasonable to suppose that these 3 children were probably siblings, and so all the offspring of a Thomas Gotham, although the father's name is only shown in one of the baptism entries.
Gender Male Buried 18 Oct 1580 Holy Trinity Church, Torbryan, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 13 Nov 2014)
"Mattheus Gotam" - under heading 'Sepulti'
- i.e. there is nothing to show that Matthew was an infant or the son of Thomas. I think it most likely, given the high rate of infant mortality, but it is possible that the burial was of another Matthew. With Torbryan registers only surviving from 1564 there may well have been an older Matthew Gotham in the Parish for whom no other evidence is readily to be found (e.g. Thomas may have named his son after his father or a brother whose burial this could be)
Siblings3 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas GOTHAM, b. Est 1550, d. Yes, date unknown (Father)
[ - ? - ], b. Est 1552, d. Yes, date unknown (Mother)Person ID I300823 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 14 Nov 2014
Father Thomas GOTHAM, b. Est 1550, d. Yes, date unknown Mother [ - ? - ], b. Est 1552, d. Yes, date unknown Married - I am showing a family here which may be more than one merged.
Matthew, Petronella and John make sense as siblings, being baptised in Torbryan in 1580-1585, a parish with no other Gotham events until over a hundred years later.
Given there are no further events at Torbryan, it appears that the family left that parish, and the baptisms of Thomas and Samuel in Wolborough follow on nicely.
Because a Thomas and Samuel, as well as an Agnes, are then found in Ugborough it appears at least some of the family then moved there. I am guessing that Agnes who married there was the sister of Thomas and Samuel, though she could have been their mother, remarrying.
I did think that Thomas the father of Samuel and Thomas was probably the son of William and Joan, baptised in Stokeinteignhead in 1568, especially as he had had a brother Samuel, but this would mean he had married at an unusually young age, and as there were two Thomases of his age in Combeinteignhead, a neighbouring parish to Stokeinteignhead, at the time of the maritime survey of 1619, it now seems more likely that one of them could have been that Thomas.
Family ID F300285 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 14 Nov 2014)
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Baptised - 18 Jan 1579/80 - Holy Trinity Church, Torbryan, Devon, England 
Buried - 18 Oct 1580 - Holy Trinity Church, Torbryan, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
