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Afternoon all

While looking for something else on the familysearch site I've come across a reference in the 1910 US census to a James L Goater, 38 born Maryland, wife Ida B, 36 born Georgia and son Milton J, 7 born Virginia - here's the link - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MPLW-M4N#

I'd be grateful if anyone can help me find or advise how to find James and Ida's marriage and any references to them on any earlier censuses.

Many thanks

Maria

Evening all

 While researching my extensive and often elusive Goater family I have come across references to a George Goater Ligare. There seems to be a lot of information available on the internet about his interesting life.

I am interested as to how his middle name came to be Goater and how/ if this connects to my family.

George' s date of birth is given as c.1821 in Winchester but I am struggling to find his birth or that of his father Isaac Ligare born in Derbyshire. If anyone can help with a birth for George and a marriage for his parents I would be very grateful.

George' s brother Charles W Ligare also had a really interesting life, ending up as a Surveyor General in New Zealand

Morning all,

I've found a record on the NZ Archives for a James GOATER who was a member of the 9th Reinforcements Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company.

His next of kin is listed as his mother, Mrs M Goater of Park Row, Nottingham. I have this family as part of my wider Goater family tree and believe this to be Maria Goater (nee Goodson) who was living at 25 Park Row, Nottingham at the time of the 1911 census with her daughter Henrietta.

I'm a bit mystified as I've never come across a James in the family. The only member unaccounted for is an Alfred Percy George Goater born 1871 in Nottingham who I am struggling to find on any census.

I've checked passenger lists and there is a Jas Goater, age unknown leaving London on the Athenic for NZ on 22/7/1910. He is listed as single & a farmer - which would perhaps tie in with his occupation of bushman on the army record? This doesn't tie in with the rest of his english family though (if he is the mysterious Alf PG) as they were all printers.

Can anyone advise how I find out more about James?

Many thanks

Maria 

Afternoon all

I have found a marriage on FreeBMD Dec qtr 1893 vol 2c page 195

Two of the possible names are Edith Goater & Frank Vann.

There is a birth record in 1899 in Stroud for a Reginald Frank Vann mother's name Goater (from Gloucestershire BMDs on the dustydocs site).

Please can sks confirm if Edith & Frank did marry and if they appear on any future censuses.

Many thanks

Maria