Henry Goodsell b.1856 Houghton

[Nanny with Rosie]

Thank you grandarog for all those details.   

I looked on FreeBMD for the first children only to find there were Goodsells and Goodchilds at the same time with Alice and Eliza Jane so I am wondering am I 'going up the wrong way street'

NANNY WITH ROSIE

[Bill749]

Houghton is near Dover

Never heard of Houghton in Kent - Hougham is near Dover.

Houghton Regis is in Bedfordshire.

Bill

[Nanny with Rosie]

Thank you for that correction Bill749.

Incidently, Marsh, Mummery and Nutting appear in the Goodsell tree.

NANNY WITH ROSIE.

[Bill749]

MARSH was a very common name in Dover, and MUMMERY is a side-line I haven't really followed (also not uncommon) but I would be very interested in any information you have on the NUTTING family, as I have done a lot of research on that line and have a few loose ends and family legends that still need sorting out!

[Nanny with Rosie]

Morning

MARSH - almost as many as Smith in the South East, I have them occur in the Goodsell Tree but felt they would not be of interest.
NUTTING - Wm Geo Nutting b.1852, m.26.10.1879, d.1884 Dover 2a/595 1/4
Mary Jane Ottway who then m. 1888 Henry Goodsell in Hougham near Dover!!

NANNY WITH ROSIE

[Bill749]

Thanks for that Nanny with Rosie.  (MARSH was actually more common than SMITH in the mid-19th century here in Kent!)

This has raised more questions for me to try to answer:

I can't find a birth for William George NUTTING at the moment, and I've only found him on one census (1881) with (Mary) Jane and son William T.  William T is also a bit of a mystery: I have found his birth in Dover in 1880 but, after 1881, I can't find him!  Unless he died (and I haven't found a death) he would only have been 8 when Mary married Henry GOODSELL - why wouldn't she have taken him with her?

Mary Jane appears to have been born in Dover in 1855 but, for some reason, gives her birth place as Sussex in 1881 and Tunbridge Wells in 1891/1901!

[Nanny with Rosie]

Hello again

William George Nutting was buried at St Mary the Virgin Dover on the 26 February 1884 as was William John Nutting (could that be a mis-transcribed entry) and be the missing son 

Just a thought!!

NANNY WITH ROSIE

[Bill749]

Just found that William John NUTTING, who was buried at St Marys was 31 years old - the same age as William George - so not a mis-transcription of William Thomas.  However, the freebmd records only show one death in February 1884 and that is William George, so I'm guessing that there probably was only one burial!  I'll have to re-check the parish registers.

Also, the Mary Jane who is married to Henry GOODSELL and living in Tunbridge Wells in 1891 is not the same one!  They are there with their first child in 1881.  Back to the drawing board!