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[janeann1966]

  Hi can anyone help me get straight with my search please I have Alec Robinson Goff born 28 Nov 1903 died 1985 born in Tendring Essex Married Olive Caroline Osborne born 1905 born Tendring also I need Alecs father I have William Marrington Goff 1842 Would like to know who he was married to as i searched and come up with different wives I also dont know if William Marrington Is Alecs father or grandfather? please help put me on the right path

[suffolk*sue]

His fathers name was William Harvey Goff born c1874 in Brightlingsea and his mother was a Ruth born c1877 in East Mersea.

His siblings were
Nellie Isabel born c1902
Stanley William born c1907
Arthur Leonard born c1909
Gertrude Mary born c1911

all born Brightlingsea as was Alec.

[suffolk*sue]

Marriage at East Mersea - St. Edmund king and martyr.

October 22nd 1898
William Harvey Goff. 25,bachelor,mariner of Brightlingsea, father William Goff,master mariner
Ruth Pudney, 21,spinster, father Elijah Pudney,labourwe
by banns
witnesses
Elijah Pudney
Martha Pennock

[suffolk*sue]

Marriage at Brightlingsea

8th November, 1930
Alec Robinson Goff,26,bachelor,mariner,father William Harvey Goff,mariner
Olive Caroline Osborne,25,spinster,father Charles Beck Osborne,mariner,deceased
by banns
witnesses
Jack Osborne
Stanley William Goff

[janeann1966]

im sorry please dont search this the info someone gave me and what i looked up is not right im told by a family member? im totally confused my boys grandad is still alivve so i cant comment on him but 3 different people other than me have come up with the same records but my boys dad said no his nan was not olive osborne her name was florence from south east london how can that be?

[groom]

Remember, he had 2 grandmothers, is he confusing her with his mother's mother or was she known as another name - I didn't know my grandmother was Alice until I went to her funeral as she'd always been known as Gertie. 

Perhaps you need to start again from what you know is 100% correct and work backwards using certificates. Your boy's dad's birth certificate will give his parents' name and their birth certificates will give their parents etc.

[kmart66]

Hi

Brightlingsea parish records - baptisms

24 Dec 1903, Alec Robinson Goff, parents William Harry (mariner) & Ruth.

Kevin

[Duodecem]

I don't know if you are still searching the Goff family but if you are I can supply some earlier details. Alec's grandfather was William Marrington Goff born in Brightlingsea in 1842. His father was also called
William Marrington Goff. He was born in Great Holland Essex in about 1821, he was a mariner. His wife was Betsey Anne Harvey of Brightlingsea, the daughter of James Harvey a fisherman and Elizabeth Hills of Colchester, a nurse.
William and Betsey had 2 other children, a daughter Grace who died aged 2 and a son Richard Harvey Goff. Richard moved to Scotland and then to Lancashire and became an oyster merchant. He also changed the spelling of his name to Gough which is how the names of all his 8 children are spelled.