Game (and Brewster and Goody)

Mollie Game has approached me for information, contacts etc. about the family of Samuel Game (1781) who was married to Elizabeth, and had a son Thomas (1823 - 1898) who, in his turn, married Maria Brewster. Maria's mother was Hannah Goody.

Mollie has the details of the Game family on from Thomas to her husband, James, but would be particularly interested in any information, such as birth/baptismal, marriage or death/burial registrations concerning Samuel, his immediate family and forebears.

I'm fairly sure that Samuel, Elizabeth and Thomas were living in Stanstead at the time of the 1841 Census.

If anyone can help Mollie, please do the usual - leave a comment here or contact me in the first instance.

Steve Clarke

Goody Family

If you're researching the Goody family, you may be interested in this link:
http://www.cvgoody.co.uk/ which someone has added as a comment to an August 2006 entry.

SC

Goody Family

Arthur Rees has contacted me with this query:

I wonder if someone can be of assistance to me. I am researching my wife's Family History, with a maiden name of Platt.

Her Great,Great, Grandfather was George Platt. In 1843 he married Alithea Goody (also variously known as Martha, Alethea and Alicia Goody), in St Leonards, Shoreditch, London.

I am trying to find more details of her. According to the census of 1841 onwards, it lists her birth place as Long Melford, but there are no records of her there. On the site of the Latter Day Saints, it tells me that she was born on 4th October 1821 in Glemsford, and was Christened there on the 6th October 1821. It lists her fathers name as Joseph Goody, who was born about 1791, and her mothers name is given as Mary Ann, who was born in1795.

At the time of her marriage in London, Joseph Goody was listed as being a Horse Hair Manufacturer, she was a Horse Hair Sewer, and George Platt was a Chair Stuffer.

I am interested in finding out anything about the family, and how they may have become involved with a London man. I can find no details of Joseph Goody, apart from what I have said above, so I have no knowledge of who Mary Ann was, or whether the whole family moved to London.

One of the witnesses at the wedding is listed as a female called P. Goody. The residence at the time of the wedding for both George Platt and Alithea Goody was given as No.9 Williams Street, which I assume to be in or near Shoreditch. The marriage was according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns.

So far, I have drawn something of a blank, except for the 1861 Census which seems to have the elderly Joseph and Mary An (sic) lodging on Egremont Street, and a possible sighting of Mary in 1871 in the Sudbury Workhouse.

So, does anyone out there know anything? Usual route for answers, please.

Steve Clarke

Goody Family

Hello,

I am researching the Goody family name and have found a William Goody born in Glemsford around 1842, with a father Henry.

William can be found on Colchester census' for 1861/71 & 81

Is anyone researching this family line?

Regards,

Catherine Forshaw.