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Henrietta GOATHAM

Henrietta GOATHAM

Female 1865 - 1938  (~ 72 years)    Has 55 ancestors and 7 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Henrietta GOATHAM 
    Relationshipwith Teresa Ann GOATHAM
    Associated names GOATHAM , DE GOTHAM , DE GOTTONE , GOTEHAM , GOTHAM , GOTHAM GRIGG , GOTHAM-BEW , GOTHAM-BOREHAM , GOTHAM-POTTER , GOTHAN , GOTTAM , GOTTOM , VAN GOETHEN 
    Born Jul 1865  Bredgar, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • GRO ref: Goatham, Henrietta q3 1865 Milton  RD 2a 663; GRO online index shows mother's maiden name as Millen
      Month from baptism entry
    Baptised 16 Oct 1870  St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 19 Jun 2019)
      Abode Bredgar, father George shown as a carpenter. Shown as born July 1865
    Gender Female 
    Occupation 1881 
    Dressmaker 
    Occupation 1891  43, Medway Road, Gillingham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Greengrocer 
    • Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891 shows on p.291 a "Goatham Henrietta (Miss), greengrocer, 43 Medway road" - in the Gillingham section.
      I think this can only be this Henrietta, but need to try to find her in the 1891 census.
    Residence 1901  43, Medway Road, Gillingham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • With her parents and her son, strangely recorded as 'Victor'
    Occupation 1901 
    Dressmaker 
    Occupation 1911  11, Hilda Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Housekeeper and milliner 
    Occupation 1921  11, Hilda Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Housekeeper and feather dresser 
    • Still 'housekeeper' to James McGeorge, possibly a cover for them living as a couple although not married.
      Also now a 'feather dresser', rather than a milliner, and working for herself.
    Residence 1938  75, Salisbury Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    At the time of her death 
    • From burial register and death registration
    Died 7 Feb 1938  County Hospital, 42, Magpie Hall Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: 1 (a) Myocardial Failure, (b) Broncho Pneumonia 
    • GRO ref: PHELIPPAULT, Henrietta aged 72 q1 1938 Medway RD 2a 1207
      Died the same quarter as her husband.
      Details including place of death from death registration (image of GRO register entry). The place of death is actually recorded as '42 Magpie Hall Road Chatham UD'; this had been the address of the Medway Union Workhouse, but by 1938 it was the County Hospital, later renamed All Saints' Hospital. The informant was 'R. Robins' in her capacity of 'causing the body to be buried'. The address suggests this was Rosina ROBINS, the only R ROBINS at the address at the time of the 1939 register, c. 18 months after Henrietta's death, a married woman living there with 2 daughters. Perhaps she was a friend of Henrietta, though Rosina was seven years younger than Henrietta's son. Henrietta's husband died just 3 weeks later, and with senility as one of the causes; it is easy to imagine he would not have been able to cope with making the arrangements - if he even understood what was happening. But it does seem strange the informant appears not to have been a relation.
      However, Henrietta's only son lived in Scotland, her siblings had all died many years before and only two siblngs, her brothers Ashely and Arthur, had descendants living. Ashley had married and died in South Africa and most of his descendants were there; Arthur and his (bigamous) wife had died when their children were young and the latter were put in a children's home by an aunt, who changed their surname from Goatham to their mother's maiden name. Was the aunt Henrietta, seeking to avoid responsibility for them? If so it is easy to understand why they would not have been involved. (Arthur had had one daughter with his true wife, but the daughter had gone with her mother when her parents parted company).  One of her brother Ashley's grandsons had moved to England, and was living not too far away in Sittingbourne, and he was the informant for Henrietta's husband's death, but perhaps he did not hear in time of his great aunt's death to be involved.
    Buried 9 Feb 1938  The Cemetery, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From transcribed data from burial register (on KFHS CD 40)
    Siblings 3 brothers and 1 sister 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    GOATHAM,   d. Yes, date unknown  (8 x Great Grandfather) 
    Elizabeth,   bur. 2 Apr 1841, St. Peter’s Church, Bredhurst, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Great Grandmother) 
    Notes 
    • Housekeeper to skilled labourer James McGeorge at 11 Hilda Road, Chatham (a boarder also living in the 6 room house) in 1911.
    Person ID I476  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 30 Mar 2024 

    Father George GOATHAM,   b. Abt 1828, Bredgar, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec Q 1901, Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 73 years) 
    Mother Rose Hannah Kincaid MILLEN,   b. Jul 1826, Boxley, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1903, 43, Medway Road, Gillingham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Married 23 Feb 1854  St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Borden, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • GRO ref: Goatham, George to Millen, Rose Hannah King Lade q1 1854 Milton RD 2a 667Details from PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 20 Nov 2019)
    Banns of marriage
    • From banns register data transcribed on KFHS CD 34
      Shows banns were read 22 Jan to 5 Feb, for George GOATHAM, Bachelor, otp to Rose Hannah King Lade MILLEN, Spinster, otp; a note suggests the marriage was on 23 Feb
    Family ID F341  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 James MCGEORGE,   b. Abt Jan 1851, Woolwich, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec Q 1929, 11, Hilda Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry 
    Notes 
    • I'm not sure that there was a relationship between James and Henrietta, other than that she was his housekeeper, but it seems likely.
      When Henrietta's son married in 1919 he did so in Scotland where the marriage registration forms have a space for mother's name and surname. Her name was given as 'Henrietta Goatham was McGeorge'. Did William give his mother's name like this because she was living as though Mrs McGeorge, but being himself a Goatham he switched the current and 'was' names around to hide his illegitimacy? Or did the name simply occur to him because he knew his mother's employer was a James McGeorge?
      Further evidence of a relationship is that in the same house as James McGeorge and Henrietta at the the time of the 1911 census was Henry Pearce, who Henrietta was later to marry. Surely it cannot have been chance that it was only after James' death, and just a few months after, that Henrietta and 'Henry' married, after knowing each other for at least 19 years. The most likely explanation for them not marrying earlier is surely that there was a relationship between Henrietta and James.
    Last Modified 19 Apr 2019 
    Family ID F7141  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William Richard BELL,   b. 21 Mar 1865, Sheppey Reg Dist, Sheppey, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec Q 1942, Chatham Reg Dist, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married Abt 1886 
    • Given that Henrietta's son William was registered as a BELL when he was born I guess that she was in a relationship with a Mr Bell at the time, but there appears to have been no marriage, and by the time William was 3, when the 1891 census took place, Henrietta and William were back living with her parents.
      When he married William gave his father's name as John Henry GOATHAM. Those who were illegitimate often seem to have made up names to hide their illigetimacy, but were John Henry the Christian names of his real father?
      No, buying a copy of William's birth registration shows is father was William Richard BELL, and this cannot have been a husband invented by Henrietta for decency's sake as it was William Richard who registered his son's birth.
    Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry 
    Children
    +1. William George Arthur GOATHAM,   b. 13 Jun 1887, 77, Hope Street, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1972, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2021 
    Family ID F7139  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Ernest Joseph Henri PHELIPPAULT,   b. 22 Aug 1859, Hammersmith, London, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Feb 1938, County Hospital, 42, Magpie Hall Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married Mar Q 1930  Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • GRO ref: Goatham, Henrietta to PHELIPPAULT, Ernest J H als Peace, Henry q1 1930 Medway RD 2a 1240
      (i.e. in the index the spouse surname alongside Henrietta shows 'Phelippault or Peace' and there are entries in the index referring to the page for a Henry PEARCE and Ernest J H PHELIPPAULT.)
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2016 
    Family ID F7140  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - Jul 1865 - Bredgar, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsBaptised - 16 Oct 1870 - St. John the Baptist Church, Bredgar, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsChild - William George Arthur GOATHAM - 13 Jun 1887 - 77, Hope Street, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Greengrocer - 1891 - 43, Medway Road, Gillingham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1901 - 43, Medway Road, Gillingham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Housekeeper and milliner - 1911 - 11, Hilda Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Housekeeper and feather dresser - 1921 - 11, Hilda Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Mar Q 1930 - Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsResidence - At the time of her death - 1938 - 75, Salisbury Road, Chatham, Kent, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
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