Keziah Merritt nee Dale

[arry]

Hi again.
Just spent 2hrs on freebmd looking for death entry for KEZIAH GOACHER,after playing around with names got ,it is registered as
JUN period 1844 GOCKER KESIAH ,Horsham 7-265 ,no wonder i could not find it ,
Again my thanks Arry

[Jill on the A272]

Here's her burial:

Keziah Gocher, age 29,  12 May 1844 at St Mary, Shipley

[arry]

Hi jill on the a272.
Thanks for that ,we will get there now.
many thanks arry

[ciderdrinker]

Hi Arry
Yeah sorry i should have given you the alternative spelling.And as you say William Goacher didn't wait around ,but then he had young children and someone had to look after them.Familysaerch has 8.1.1845 Itchingield and fathers William Gocher and William Oliver or Niven.Strange.1841 doesn't help as she's a female servant age 15 in Toal Itchingfield.
Here's the family in 1851 but you probably already have that.
Bachelors Shipley
William Goacher 38 farmer of 80 acres employing 1 in hand lab and 1 out door labShipley
Jane 25 ? Itchingfield
Emily 15 Shipley
William 13
Elizabeth 11 Washington
Edwin 9 Shipley
Walter 5 Itchingfield
Albert 3
Oliver 1 Shipley
Emily Harding 13 house servant Itchingfield and John Bindfield 16 farm lab Itchingfield
1861 sees them at the same farm with a Jane 9,Sarah 6 and Frank 2.
1871 children Albert 23,Jane 19,Sarah 16,Frank 12,Ellen 10,Mary Ann 7
George Goacher brother widower age 60 ag lab Shipley
William Oliver 80 father in law widower Itchingfield and some servants and lodgers.
1881
William 68 farmer of 100 acres employing 1 man Shipley
Jane 54 Itchingfield
Frank 22 Shipley
Mary A 16
Edith granddaughter 5 Shipley
1891 has the couple still with Frank who is single and the following grandchildren
Edith Goacher 14 Shipley
Frank Merritt 23 farm servant Willinghurst
Charlie Merritt  21 same
Albert  Randall 4 Horsham
William Gocher dies 23.12.1891 Batchlor's Farm ,Shipley Sussex Probate 11.3.1892 London to Walter Gocher farmer and Leonard Reeves lab £574 18s 9d
Jane moves to no 24 Inkerman Terrace Itchingfield 1901
Frederick  Randall 44 railway platelayer Shipley
Ellen 39 same
Edith M 6 Itchingfield
William Oliver  Merritt 20 stepson carpenter East Preston
Jane Gocher m in law widow 73 living on own means Itchingfield.
She's still with the couple on the 1911.
Frank and Ellen Gocher married in June 1889 Horsham (31.3.1889 Southwater),so where is this William Oliver Merritt coming from?
1881 Preston port East Preston lodgers
Oliver Merritt 22 ag lab Billingshurst
Ellen 20 Shipley
William O 5mths East Preston
Turns out Oliver is William and Emily's son.He died in Sep 1882 age 23 East Preston.And they had married in Dec 1880 ,so why is she using her maiden name when she remarries?
Anyway there is also a family tree for William Goacher born 1812 Shipley son of William and Philadelphia  Goacher nee Dean on Familysearch which you may want to take a butcher's at.
Not got anymore ,so all the best
Ciderdrinker

[ciderdrinker]

Sorry one last thing 1841 census
Mary Merritt 41y,Soloman 15 ag lab,Sarah 13,William 10,Richard 8,James6 ,Reuben 3.
2 doors down
William Gocher 60 farmer
Mary 23 Prester/Streater housekeeper
James Goacher 15
Thomas Gocher 12
Sarah 5 Prester/Stauter
Elizabeth Blunt Stauter 1
Mary and Sarah and Elizabeth are all the same family but I can't read the surname.
Baptisms William and Phil -son 18.5.1810,son 18.7.1812,Mary 18.1.1818 ,Sarah 9.7.1820,James 2.7.1826 and Thomas 6.6.1830.
Could this be William's Dad?
Ciderdrinker

[arry]

Hi Ciderdrinker.
tremendous amount of info ,my thanks to you ,i,m sure Monn will be very pleased when i see him tuesday,i have also picked up on another thread for sussex where there is a photo of the family at the farm and i have asked if they would email me a copy ,all in all a very successful ask ,i do recommend rootschat to everyone i see doing family research ,
My very best regard,s Arry

[arry]

Hi again Ciderdrinker.
going back over your note,s we did struggle finding them in 1851 census ,now we know that KAZIAH died 1844 and he remarried it all makes sense ,as we could not work out how WILLIAM had the same children but a different wife ,if i had looked at death,s around that time we may have found it ,still all came right in the end ,great suff,
best regards Arry