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Elizabeth GOATHAM
Est 1636 - 1712 (~ 76 years)
Has no ancestors but 13 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Elizabeth GOATHAM Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Est 1636 - Date estimated from date of baptism of her husband, date of their marriage and taking into account that her last child was not baptised (and almost certainly born) until 1685.
Who was Elizabeth i.e. who were her parents?
Two of Elizabeth's marriages were by licence but not her first known, which means we cannot even be sure if she was a widow or spinster at the time of this marriage (as was common at that time, the PR entry did not record this).
Her being a widow would not really help to explain why I have not found her baptism, because I have not found a marriage of a Goatham to an Elizabeth that could be this Elizabeth either!
I think most likely she was a spinster, partly because George Goatham acted as bondsman for her marriage to Robert Lovewell, although it is possible to imagine George may have been bondsman for an in-law, but also because she must have been young at the time of her first known marriage, to have had her last child 28 years later.
Also, there seems from other documents to have been close links between the Goatham and Long families, which would make sense if Elizabeth was a Goatham by birth.
It is possible that Elizabeth was a daughter of George (bap 1615) but if by his first known marriage, then she would have been very young at the time of her first marriage and there is little in the way of a window in which she could have been born. George and Joan's first known baby was born 21 months after their marriage. The gap between a baby of theirs that lived and the next baby was usually at least 16 months, more commonly 18 months to two years. If they had Elizabeth before the first known it was almost certainly within 5 months of the marriage, so Joan would have had to have been quite pregnant with Elizabeth when they married, not common at this time.
The marriage licence details show George as a bachelor when he and Joan married; if this was wrong he could have been the George of George and Frances who had a baby baptised in 1637/8. Did they also have a daughter Elizabeth? The lack of evidence of family events (the marriage of George and Frances, baptism of Elizabeth, burial or Frances) could be due to them being in a parish whose PRs don't go back this far - fairly rare in this area, but not unknown). In time no doubt BTs and ATs will all be indexed and these events may come to light.
It seeems more likely, though, that Elizabeth was another daughter of Richard and Katherine, whose first daughter Elizabeth had died as a young baby. Maybe her baptism was accidentally omitted from the PR, or perhaps she was baptised in a non-conformist church. Neither Richard nor George signed the protestation oath in Herne, which might suggest non-conformist sympathies.
It could also suggest the family had moved to another parish for a few years. In Richard's case he had a child baptised in Herne in 1633 and was described as 'of Herne' on his daughter's marriage licence in 1644, so it is possible they were elsewhere for a few years, and he signed elsewhere, but in George's case he was 'of Herne' when he married just a few months before the oath, and again when his first known child was baptised in 1643, so his absence from Herne seems unlikely.
Assuming Elizabeth was legitimate, I don't know of any other Goathams who could have been her father. George's brothers were too young, his uncles died before Elizabeth was born, and I know of no cousins living at this time.
Since both Elizabeth's first two husbands died before her brother George and wills and probate inventories survive for both, I am hopful of finding a reference to George as 'brother-in-law' or some other relationship that would confirm / clarify where Elizabeth fits in (will of Richard Long seen; it has no helpful reference of this sort).
Gender Female Buried 10 Jul 1712 All Saints’ Church, Westbere, Kent, England 
- Not the Elizabeth Lovewell buried in Herne in 1704, as she was the wife of Jervas Lovewell.
It seems she married again to James King.
I think James was the one buried in 1705/6; being aged 77 it is unlikely that Elizabeth married for a fourth time and I think the following is her burial:
From PR entry, image on FMP (viewed 20 May 2017)
"Elizabeth Kng Widdow was buryed July the 10th 1712"
Person ID I7919 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 25 May 2020
Family 1 Richard LONGE, bap. 5 Oct 1634, St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England , bur. 28 Jun 1677, St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England (Age ~ 42 years) Married 25 Oct 1657 St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP )Under heading "1657" - "Richard Longe and Elizabeth Gotham was Maried } Octobr 25"
Children9 children Last Modified 29 May 2017 Family ID F5495 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Robert LOVEWELL, bap. 3 May 1629, St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England , bur. 7 May 1680, St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England (Age ~ 51 years)
Other Partners: Margerett m. Bef 1660; Elizabeth DAD m. 9 May 1671Married 28 Sep 1677 St. Mary Bredin Church, Canterbury, Kent, England Marriage License 28 Sep 1677 Canterbury, Kent, England - "Lovewell, Robert, of Herne, husb.,
widr., and Eliz. Long, s. p., w. At
S. M. Bredin, Cant. Geo. Gotham
of Herne, yeom., bonds. Sept. 28,
1677. See Lovell."
(from Cowper, 4th series, col. 370)
Children 1. [Chrisomer] LOVEWELL, b. 1678, bur. 13 Nov 1678, St. Martin’s Church, Herne, Kent, England (Age ~ 0 years)Last Modified 20 May 2017 Family ID F9342 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 3 James KING, bap. 21 Jun 1640, All Saints’ Church, Westbere, Kent, England , bur. 2 Jan 1705/06, All Saints’ Church, Westbere, Kent, England (Age ~ 65 years)
Other Partners: Dorothy m. Feb 1668/69; Dorothy m. 5 Aug 1672Married 25 Nov 1680 Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 20 May 2017)
"Novembr the 25th - James King of Westbeere & Elizabeth Lovell of Hearne were married _ 1680"
Marriage License 25 Nov 1680 Canterbury, Kent, England - "King, James, of Westbere, yeom., widr.,
and Eliz. Lovell of Herne, w. At
Westbere, or Ch. Ch., Cant. Thos.
Johnson of the Precincts of the Abp's
Palace, Cant, clerk, bonds. Nov.
25, 1680."
(from Cowper, 4th series, col. 340)
Children3 children Last Modified 24 May 2017 Family ID F9343 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Date estimated from date of baptism of her husband, date of their marriage and taking into account that her last child was not baptised (and almost certainly born) until 1685.