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Rayfield Alfred GOATHAM
1921 - 2004 (83 years)
Has 59 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Rayfield Alfred GOATHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 8 May 1921 Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England 
- GRO ref: Goatham, Rayfield A q2 1921 mother's maiden name: Roberts, Medway 2a 1506; GRO online index shows middle name as Alfred
dob from death registration index
Gender Male Middle name relationship ‘Rayfield’: a paternal gt gt grandmother's maiden name, but by now probably just a family name being continued - 'Rayfield' was his father's middle name and patneral grandfather's first name.
[* - middle name except where indicated otherwise]
Died 8 Sep 2004 Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: Feb 2005 register A49A, district / sub-d 561/1A, entry 174
Date of death from probate calendar entry
Probate 27 Jan 2005 Manchester, Lancashire, England Calendar entry - From Find a will website -
Shows died 8 Sep 2004, probate 27 Jan 2005
Patriarch & Matriarch 
GOATHAM, d. Yes, date unknown (10 x Great Grandfather)
Alice Ann MARTIN, b. 29 Apr 1869, Upchurch, Kent, England, d. 7 Mar 1955, 181, Pier Road, Gillingham, Kent, England (Age 85 years) (Grandmother) Person ID I6167 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 1 Dec 2023
Father Reginald Rayfield GOATHAM, BEM, b. 10 Nov 1891, Rochester, Kent, England , d. 8 May 1962, All Saints Hospital, Chatham, Kent, England (Age 70 years) Mother Olive May ROBERTS, b. 7 Dec 1893, Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England , d. 11 Nov 1976, Chatham Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age 82 years) Married 16 Dec 1920 St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Gillingham, Kent, England - GRO ref: Goatham, Reginald R to Roberts, Olive M q4 1920 Medway RD 2a 1802
Details from PR entry (image on CityArk, viewed 17 Nov 2016)
"1920. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish
of Gillingham in the County of Kent
No. 467, Dec. 16th, Reginald Rayfield Goatham, age: 29, Bachelor, Engine Fitter, residence at time of Marriage: 60 Gillingham Avenue, father: Rayfield Goatham decd, Stone-mason
Olive May Roberts, age: 27, Spinster, [no occupation shown], residence at time of Marriage: 42 Arundel[?] Rd, father: Alfred Roberts decd, Labourer
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by [blank] or after Banns by me, Charles Elorbb[?] Vicar
This Marriage was solemnized between us, Reginald Rayfield Goatham, Olive May Roberts
in the Presence of us, Henry Edward Goatham, [? - very faint]"
Family ID F3088 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Edith Dorothy WARNER, b. 21 Nov 1921, Malling Reg Dist, Kent, England , d. 7 Aug 2003, Medway Reg Dist, Kent, England (Age 81 years) Married Sep Q 1942 Chatham Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: Goatham, Reginald A to Warner, Edith D q3 1942 Chatham RD 2a 3064
** I am guessing the marriage should be Rayfield **
The marriage shown here is recorded as being of a "Reginald A Goatham" - but there doesn't seem to have been any such person! It seems to me most likely to be for Rayfield A; it can't be the 2nd marriage of his father Reginald R, as not only was Reginald's first wife (Rayfield's mother) still alive but Reginald's probate calendar entry shows she was still his wife when he died.
It may well be that when the index was made the father's name was accidentally glanced at and the first name recorded from there. The fact that Rayfield and Edith were about the same age also increases the liklihood it was Rayfield, not his father, who married Edith. In addtion a Rayfield R is recorded at the same address as Edith in the electoral registers for the years immediately preceeding their deaths.
Children + 1. Living Last Modified 19 May 2021 Family ID F3594 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Goatham, Rayfield A q2 1921 mother's maiden name: Roberts, Medway 2a 1506; GRO online index shows middle name as Alfred