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Judith GOATHAM
1733 - Yes, date unknown
Has 25 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Judith GOATHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born - Transcribed data re marriage licence shows 21, which suggests born about 1744, unless it was 'above 21' to indicate parental permission not needed.
Baptised 26 Aug 1733 St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England 
Gender Female Died Yes, date unknown Siblings3 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
GOATHAM, d. Yes, date unknown (4 x Great Grandfather)
Mary CURLING, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandmother)Person ID I3204 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 Last Modified 6 Sep 2020
Father John GOATHAM, bap. 16 Apr 1693, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England , d. Bef 1770 (Age ~ 76 years) Mother Anne DIGGES, bap. 14 Apr 1700, St. John the Baptist Church, Margate, Kent, England , d. Oct 1770, Margate, Kent, England (Age ~ 70 years) Married 25 Feb 1723/24 St. Benet’s Church, Paul's Wharf, City of London, London, England - Register entry "John Goatham of Ramsgate Kent B and Ann Digges of Margate Kent S by LC" - no indication of why the marriage was taking place in London.
With John being of Ramsgate, and Ann of Margate, it is not clear why they married in London. According to the website of St. Benet's "Until 1867 St Benet was the parish church of Doctors Commons, a legal institution which, among its other activities, could provide facilities for hasty marriages. There is a record, for instance, of some 1300 weddings taking place in one year alone in the Eighteenth Century." But it is not clear why they would have wanted a hasty marriage. Was Anne underage or one (or both) marrying against their father's will? Or was it just a romantic thing to do, to travel (presumably around the coast and up the Thames) to London?
Marriage License 25 Feb 1723/24 Faculty Office, London, England - Licence is in the Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850 collection of SOG
"25th. Febry. 1723o ??
On Which day Appeared P[er]sonally John
Goatham of Ramsgate in the County of Kent
aged Twenty nine years and a Batchelor and
alledged that he intendeth to marry with Anne
Digges of Margate in the sd County aged above
Twenty three years and a Spinster at her own
dispussal
Not knowing or beleiving any lawfull Lett or Impedimt by
reason of any p[re](?)contract Consanguinity Affinity or any
other lawfull means wtsoever to hinder the sd intended.
Marriage of the truth of the p[r]emisses he made Oath &
prayed Licence to Soleming & the sd Marriage in
the Parish Church of St. Bennet near Pauls Wharf London
John Goatham"
Family ID F1279 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family John FOSTER, b. Est 1731, d. Yes, date unknown Marriage License 29 Jan 1765 Surrey, England - Both of Rotherhithe
(from Origins.net, from Surrey Marriage Index 1500 to 1846)
Married 30 Jan 1765 St. Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe, Surrey, England - As a number of Judith's close family married in London, and as I've not come across any other Judith Goathams I am fairly sure this is the marrige of the Judith as shown here..
There were 2 different John and Judith Fosters married only 7 years and about 4 miles apart.
A John and Judith Foster had children baptised at St. Matthew's Church, Bethnal Green (1773-1794); John Foster and Judith née Goatham are not the parents. The spacing and fact they were all at the same church suggest this is one family; they fit as children of a John Foster who married 'Juda Lebeau' at St. Matthew's in 1772. The marriage entry shows that the John who married in 1772 was a bachelor, so it appears not to be the same John remarrying. A Judith Foster died in Bethnal Green RD in 1838, age given as 86 in death registration online index, i.e. probably born 1751, probably Judith née Lebeau, not Judith née Goatham.
Unfortunately I have yet to discover what became of the couple I am interested in!
Judith's brother Robert left money to his niece "Elizabeth Soper" - did Judith have a daughter who married a Soper? Did Judith remarry to a Soper and then have a daughter Elizabeth?
Last Modified 6 Sep 2020 Family ID F3774 Family Group Page | Family Chart