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Margaret GOATHAM
1608 - 1626 (~ 17 years)
Has 6 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Margaret GOATHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 28 Dec 1608 All Saints’ Church, Burmarsh, Kent, England 
- KFHS transcript - CD 29 - dau of John
Also on IGI, seen 30/4/2011, source film 1751623
Gender Female Bequest 1622 From her father Buried 4 May 1626 All Saints’ Church, Westbere, Kent, England - ** Possibly ** this burial
(see marriage - the burial may not be this Margaret)
From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 25 Feb 2013):
"Margarit Gotam the daughter of John Gotam was buried the 4th of May - 1626"
Alt. Burial 4 Nov 1638 St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, ivewed 24 May 2017)
"Margaret wife of John Bicker Jun: bur _ 4 Novem"
Siblings1 brother and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
GOATHAM, d. Yes, date unknown (Great Grandfather)
Abigaill GYLES, bur. 13 Mar 1613/14, All Saints’ Church, Burmarsh, Kent, England (Mother) Notes - Margaret lost her father when she was aged about 14, her older (half?) sister - who appears to have been her only surviving sibling - a little over a year later, and her step-mother less than a year after that, Margaret probably had no relations in Burmarsh, so the 16 year old may well have gone to live with relations in the Herne area, and be the Margaret who married there in 1636.
At present though while I haven't found any Margaret's baptised in Herne, I haven't searched the baptismal registers earlier than 1613. But before this would be too early for "Richard of Chislet" and John's will suggests he had no (surviving) daughter Margaret; I don't believe there were other Goatham families in Herne at the time so that the marriage was of this Margaret did seem very likely.
HOWEVER I have also come across a burial of a "Margarit" which would fit as this one. Both events cannot be hers. I must be missing a Margaret.
Person ID I6562 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 16 Nov 2020
Father John GOATHAM, bap. 6 Feb 1566/67, St. Mary’s Church, Chartham, Kent, England , d. 1622, Burmarsh, Kent, England (Age ~ 54 years)
Other Partners: Annes; Jone WILSON m. 24 Oct 1614Mother Abigaill GYLES, bur. 13 Mar 1613/14, All Saints’ Church, Burmarsh, Kent, England Married 26 Jan 1598/99 St. Anthony’s Church, Alkham, Kent, England - Date here as on KFHS transcript, CD 16
Tyler index - image on Ancestry - unclear scribble - looks like 1596
Now seen the PR (image on FMP, viewed 18 Feb 2013)
Entries are out of order - PR must have been written up at a later date (though style of handwriting is consistent with C16th) - but clearly seems to be 1598 (presumably OS)
"Jhon Gotham and Abygall Gyles married Jany. 26 1598"
Family ID F3721 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family John BICKER, bap. 16 Oct 1603, Wickhambreaux, Kent, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 4 Oct 1636 St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England - ** See notes under Margaret for my reasoning on the marriage being this Margaret - and see burial - the marriage may not be this Margaret. **
Last Modified 16 Nov 2020 Family ID F4165 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- KFHS transcript - CD 29 - dau of John
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Baptised - 28 Dec 1608 - All Saints’ Church, Burmarsh, Kent, England 
Buried - 4 May 1626 - All Saints’ Church, Westbere, Kent, England 
Married - 4 Oct 1636 - St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England Alt. Burial - 4 Nov 1638 - St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Wills (transcripts) 
The will of John Goatham (c. 1566 - 1622)
Margaret's father's will, in which he bequeathed her £25 to be paid to her when she reached the age of 22, or sooner if she married before then.
I believe she married when aged about 28 so she should have received the money in 1630 when she became 22.
Using the Retail Price Index, £25 in 1630 would be the equivalent of about £3 213 in 2009, but looking at average earnings, in the amount of time someone may have earned £25 in 1630 they might have been expected to earn £47 652 in 2009!