Frederick Goudy, bigamist, or not?

[youngtug]

Frederick Goudy was my gtgtgrandfather and I have suddenly been thrown a curve by Elise Masterman, he could have been a bigamist!
                                                            http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=730246.0

[youngtug]

Frederick Goudy was born in 1847 in Earl Stoneham, Suffolk.

Although I cannot find a marriage he was living with Laurena Fisher and had two children with her. She died in 1879 at Reading and there is a death registration for Laurina Goudy.

He then married Anna Maria Soffe and they had no children.

A frederick Bryer Goudy married Bathsheba Snasdell in1882.

There is only one Frederick Goudy, according to FreeBMD, borne early enough, and that is the one born in 1847.

A problem,,,,

[Kay99]

I think you need the marriage cert to Bathsheba in 1882 which would give info re Frederick age,  occupation etc even if he lied about his marital status.

There is a Frederick Bryer Goudy b 1860 who is listed as emigrating to Amercia about 1889 although no details or image are available, but this could be him in 1900  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMH1-VGT

[youngtug]

It is a possibillty, although that would make him a bigamist also.
I cannot find a birth for a Frederick Bryer Goudy in England though.

[youngtug]

Following Kay99's link, there is the death of Fred. B. Goudy in Bath.  Allen.. Ohio.
Date of death; 28-Nov-1934. aged 86 est, dob,;1848.
Place of birth; New Castle. England.

[Elise Masterman]

Thanks for starting a new Thread on this.

  I will look into the one that emigrated but my gut feeling is that it is the one who died in Maidenhead in 1920 and who had Arthur G Goudy as his young brother and his son.

[youngtug]

Frederick Goudy b;1848 Suffolk had a brother Alfred Bryant Goudy born about about 1850, he was a tailor.

[youngtug]

I see that the Fred B Goudy in Ohio was also a tailor but he was born in 1860.

[youngtug]

No help here; http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=goudy&GSfn=fred&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=68835954&df=all&