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Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke born approx 1790ish

Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke born approx 1790ish

Posted: 24 Apr 2007 6:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gobbett
Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke born approx 1790ish
I would be very grateful if anyone could help me find any information on Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke. We don’t know when they were born but we think they got married on 31 Mar 1813 in Halesworth, Suffolk.

We have traced our family tree back as far as Henry Gooderam Gobbett b1816 in Halesworth, Suffolk. He married Maria Fairhead not sure when. We believe that Daniel & Elizabeth is his parents. Maybe his middle name Gooderam could be connected to his grandmother???

Henry had a son William Clarke Gobbett b1851 who is on our tree. William's son Edward b1872 came over to Ireland and married an Irish girl.

The Gobbetts in Ireland are descendants’ from him. We don’t know if Henry had any brothers or sisters.

Any information would be very much appreciated.

Christina & Dolores Gobbett from Ireland

Re: Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke born approx 1790ish

Posted: 16 Jul 2007 7:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: CLARKE, GOBBETT, GOODERHAM
Hello Christina & Dolores

Elizabeth Clarke (d. 18 Feb. 1819 aged 27 or 28) was the first wife of tailor and woollen draper Daniel Gobbett of Halesworth. Their tombstone (among the Halesworth churchyard inscriptions printed in the 1890s) also commemorates Elizabeth’s parents: William Clarke (d. 14 Jan. 1842 aged 89; “many Years a Builder in this Town”) and Mary (d. 11 June 1829 aged 77). Elizabeth, daughter of William Clarke and Mary White, was baptized at Halesworth on 7 Aug. 1791 (IGI: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?P...).

Daniel Gobbett died on 25 Aug. 1839 at the age of “58”. He was almost certainly baptized at Eye, Suffolk, on 23 July 1780, apparently the eldest of at least six children of baker Daniel Gobbett (c.1751?-1823) and Eleanor Gissing (c.1751-1830) of Eye who were married there on 7 Sept. 1779. If the baker had in fact been a few years younger than his wife, and if his parents were not at Eye (I have not searched the parish registers for them) it is possible that they were shoemaker Daniel Gobbett and Mary Edwards (m. Denton, Norfolk, 1745) who lived in the Norfolk border parish of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell. Their son Daniel was born in 1755.

Henry Gooderham Gobbett (1816-1892) was indeed one of the children of Daniel and Elizabeth. His brother William Clarke Gobbett (1818-1890) and two elder sisters, Elizabeth (1814-1856) and Louisa (1815-1901?), were baptized in Halesworth’s Congregationalist chapel (IGI). Henry was a tailor of Halesworth when he married Maria Fairhead (1822-1910; daughter of dealer and farmer Robert Fairhead and Phoebe Lay) at Mutford, Suffolk, on 24 Dec. 1845. In February of that year, also at Mutford, Maria’s sister Anne (1820-1919) had married James Pain, who left her widowed by 1854, when she married Henry’s brother William (a draper of Bristol) in the same church. Sisters Elizabeth and Louisa were assisting William with his Bristol linen drapery business in 1851. Elizabeth Gobbett later moved to Brampton, Suffolk, and was buried at Halesworth. Louisa married (Bristol district, 1853) a grocer, John Jenkins of Aberdare, Glamorgan, who died before the 1881 census. I believe she spent her final days in Cardiff, having lived twice as long as her sister.

If there is no trace of Henry’s middle name among his maternal ancestors, it may go back as far as Godfrey Gooderham (c.1736-1812) who married Elizabeth Gobbett in 1756 at Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell. Elizabeth (c.1725-1788) was a daughter of Daniel and Susan Gobbet. If (another if!) Daniel and Susan had a son named Daniel in the 1720s (an unconfirmed hypothesis!) he could have been the shoemaker who married Mary Edwards at Denton in 1745, perhaps making Godfrey Gooderham an uncle of Henry Gooderham Gobbett’s grandfather. Another child of Daniel and Mary was Mary Gobbett, baptized at Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell in 1749. She seems likely to have been the Mary Gobbett who married Robert Edwards in that parish in 1778, when Godfrey Gooderham was the first witness to sign the register. For more information about him, you may like to obtain a copy of his will. I have not seen it but I think this is the Norfolk Record Office's reference: Gooderham, Godfrey. Cathedral Precinct. 1810-1824. O.W. 1790-1823. No. 87.

I’d be very interested to learn more about Henry’s son William Clarke Gobbett (1851-1934?) and his family. Please feel free to contact me by e-mail.

David Gobbitt

Re: Daniel Gobbett & Elizabeth Clarke born approx 1790ish

Posted: 13 May 2010 3:45PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Surnames: BAYES, FORD, GOBBETT, GOODERHAM, HUNT, SUTTERBY, VAUGHAN
Hello again Christina & Dolores

You may like to read the information I posted yesterday in a new thread about the GOBBETT - GOODERHAM connection. But I'm not so sure that Henry Gooderham GOBBETT's son William was the father of Edward GOBBETT of Ireland. William Clarke GOBBETT (c.1851-1934) married Elizabeth VAUGHAN at Port Elizabeth in South Africa on 24 November 1875. The marriage was announced in the Liverpool Mercury on 6 January 1876, Liverpool being Elizabeth's home town.

I don't know whether William and Elizabeth had any children but I think your Edward looks more like William Edward, born in the Marylebone district of London on 14 December 1871 and baptized at St Marylebone parish church on 11 February 1872, the son of William GOBBETT (c.1821-1879) and Emily BAYES, née SUTTERBY (1845-c.1877), who were married there on 23 May 1871. Their younger son Henry or Harry (c.1874-1880) was also born in Marylebone but died of scrofulous abscesses at the age of 5 in Southall, Middlesex, where he had attended the St Marylebone Poor Law Union's school since 1877, perhaps because his mother had died at that time. The date of his admission (17 February 1877) is noted in the school's register of deaths (15 January 1880), held by the London Metropolitan Archives and now accessible online through Ancestry. Edward may have been recovering from scrofula in 1881 (aged "7") when he was one of many young Marylebone-born patients at the Downlands Convalescent Home in Rottingdean, Sussex, which specialized in ophthalmic and strumous diseases (http://www.victorianlondon.org/dickens/dickens-h.htm).

Their father William was in Marylebone's Northumberland Street workhouse from 16 February 1877 until chronic bronchitis caused his death on 27 March 1879. He was a bricklayer, born in Reading, Berkshire, and baptized there, at St Laurence's church, on 6 January 1822. His father, also a bricklayer, was Abraham GOBBETT, who came from Suffolk (bap. Hasketon 1795; bur. Ipswich Cemetery 1861) and left many descendants. William had been married before, in 1857, to Mary Elizabeth HUNT (c.1820-1870). She was probably the Mary GOBBETT who died in the district of St George Hanover Square and was buried in Hanwell Cemetery, Middlesex, on 25 October 1870. The burial register gives her address as Mount Street (possibly St George's Workhouse, near Park Lane in Mayfair). As far as I know, she had no children.

Emily's first husband was a policeman, Thomas BAYES (c.1844-1867?). They had a son named William BAYES who was born in Norfolk in 1865. He married Helena FORD (1866-1935?) in 1890 at St Mary's church in Somers Town, Camden. They lived nearby in the St Pancras district of London, with four children by 1911. I haven't traced Emily's daughter Maria BAYES (b. Marylebone 1867) after the census in April 1871, when their name was recorded as "Bays".

I hope these notes will help you to discover more about your family's history.

David Gobbitt
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