Sophia Goulty (1811-1895) and Emerson Manbey / Tidy (1809-1873). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Sophia Goulty was born in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, on 3 January 1811 and named at at the Particular Baptist Church in Salhouse, Norfolk. Her parents were Charles Goulty and Rebecca Lock. Sophia grew up in Norfolk but she was living in Queen Charlotte […]
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Elizabeth Dolamore (1836-1904) and a tragic death
Elizabeth Dolamore (1836-1904) and William Bushby (1835-1880). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncle. Elizabeth Dolamore was born to my 3rd great-grandparents David Dolamore and Mary Ann Walker. She was baptised on 30 October 1836 at St Lawrence’s in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, and grew up in the Watford area. She married William Bushby on 15 May […]
Sarah Comber and my other Comber ancestors
Sarah Comber (1682-1758).My 7th great-grandmother. The Combers were a long-established Sussex family, some prospered as landowners and sheep farmers, and family pedigrees were presented at the Heralds’ Visitations of Sussex in 1634. The surname probably derived from the occupation of combing wool, although a ‘combe’ refers also to a valley. Curiously, some members of the […]
Hannah Holsworth and my other Holsworth ancestors
Hannah Holsworth (1791-1879). My 4th great-grandmother. Holsworth is a fairly common surname in Norfolk and is a variation of Holdsworth. ‘Worth’ is an old English word for enclosure, suggesting the surname was a habitional name deriving from a particular place. Hannah, my 4th great-grandmother, came from the village of Salhouse and was the first by […]
Godfrey Weston and my other Weston ancestors
Godfrey Weston (1785-1862). My 4th great-grandfather. Godfrey Weston was the first of the Westons to join my direct family tree but he didn’t marry into it. Instead he fathered a child out of wedlock and then married someone else. The Westons came from north-west Suffolk and south Norfolk over the centuries. The surname was given […]
Ann Burley and my other Burley ancestors
Ann Burley (1775-1850).My 4th great-grandmother. She married into the Finch family. Ann Burley was the daughter of John Burley of Limpsfield and Sarah Goodman of Kingston, both in Surrey (see below). She was born on the 27 April 1775 and baptised on 3 June that year at St Peter’s Church in Limpsfield, where her carpenter […]
Sarah Rice and my other Rice ancestors
Sarah Rice (1791-1871). My 4th great-grandmother. Sarah was the first of the Rice family to join my family tree. She was baptised on 3 July 1791 at St Mary’s Church in Balcombe, Sussex, to parents George Rice and Mary Harman (see below). She married William Budgen at St Nicholas’s Church in Worth, Sussex, on 2 […]
Rebecca Lock and my other Lock ancestors
Rebecca Lock (1778-1861). My 4th great-grandmother. Rebecca was the first of the Locks to marry into my family, when she wed Charles Goulty in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, on 17 May 1796. She’d been born in the village on 25 April 1778 and baptised at St Fabian and St Sebastian’s Church on 15 April 1779 – her […]
Sarah Rose and my other Rose ancestors
Sarah Rose (1817-1886).My 3rd great-grandmother. Rose is a common surname in Norfolk, which is where my branch of the family come from. The surname’s derivation is hard to pin down but may have related to people who lived near a notable rose bush or in a property covered with a rose. It may also have […]
Mary Pilgrim and my other Pilgrim ancestors
Mary Pilgrim (1811-1867). My 3rd great-grandmother. My Pilgrim ancestors came from Norfolk in East Anglia and joined my family tree when Mary Pilgrim married James Goulty in 1842 – they would be my 3rd great-grandparents. See where they fit in my family tree. Mary was born illegitimately to Elizabeth Pilgrim on 7 January 1811 at […]
Susan Budgen (1795-1870), a Sussex publican
Susan Budgen (1795-1870) and George Tulley (1787-1837). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Susan Budgen was baptised on 19 April 1795 in St Nicholas’s Church in Worth to parents William Budgen and Betty Streeter and grew up in the village. She married George Tulley on 16 October 1820 at St Andrew’s, Nuthurst, Sussex, about 11 miles from her […]
William Stoliday (1836-1930), a long-lived market gardener
William Stoliday (1836-1930), Mary-Ann Carr (1827-1866) and Ann Dove (1845-1917). My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunts. Baptised on 4 December 1836 at All Saints’ Church in Salhouse, Norfolk, William was the son of my 3rd great-grandparents William Stoliday and Sarah Rose. He became an agricultural labourer, like his father, and was married twice. His first […]