Rebecca Gobey

[arnaud]

Married John Marshall 27 June 1814 Great Oakley.
Buried 17 January 1836 Beaumont cum Moze.
I need help finding her baptism please.

[helvissa]

Hello,

Spotted this one as I've been transcribing those two parishes on FreeREG and I remembered the names.

Yes, it looks like they moved from Gt Oakley and had children in Beaumont from 1817 to 1830, and Rebecca was 40 when she died, which gives us a rough birth date of 1796.

The family is in Beaumont, possibly, on the 1821 census (pdf) - Jno Marshal, 3 males and 4 females.

I don't know if you've seen this but I've put my transcriptions up as spreadsheets so you can search alphabetically - Great Oakley here. I can't see her in my transcriptions and I can't see a Rebecca baptised in 1796 either.

The search results on FreeREG look like Wix, Thorpe and Great Oakley as being parishes where Gobeys were being baptised around that period. Of course, that might help you rule out parishes where she's not baptised and look around the contiguous parishes which haven't got to FreeREG yet (if you're using FreeREG, that is...!).

[helvissa]

Would the "family reconstitution forms" at ERO be any help?

[arnaud]

Thank you for your interest. Yes I have been using freereg & more often seax. The Gobey family is a mini project apart from my tree. ERO have the will of John Gobey of Manningtree, chirugeon 1663 with land & family in Langham. They spread through the villages you mention & Bradfield becoming Ag Labs. Not many of this name in the U.K there were others in the west country who may or may not be related. Next time I am in England I'll check out the Mistley family reconstitutions.

[helvissa]

The funny thing is, I live in Birmingham and became friends with one of my neighbours, who has the surname Goby. I started looking at these registers and kept seeing the name turn up, and it turns out that she's descended from the Great Oakley Gobys! When the National Express website had the url gobycoach.co.uk, we thought it was hilarious!

I'd seen that will, but didn't realise it was the same family (though not surprising).

[arnaud]

26 Oct 1838 Gt Oakley John Goby 24yrs Ag Lab son of John Marshall married Sarah Barfield. Is this an illegitimate son Rebecca had before she married John? I can't find a baptism for him either. Maybe they are registered in Suffolk, which I don't have access to.

[suffolk*sue]

All Saints, Gt. Oakley

John Goby
baptised 15th February, 1813
illegitimate son of Rebekah.

[helvissa]

Ahhh.... It's quite interesting because I've noticed sometimes the groom or bride's surname is different from their father in the 1837-onwards registers, so that's a good example of why! Rebecca had a "walking out" baby with John Marshall.

Alas, doesn't get us any closer to her own baptism, though. :-/