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Mary Goddard
c1807-1890
Mary was born in Rushall Wiltshire she was baptised on the 7th August 1807 in Rushall the daughter of Job (a Labourer) and Charlotte Watts (nee Bath) who married on the 6th August 1804 in Manningford Bruce Wiltshire.
Job and Charlotte also had the following children (all baptised in Rushall except Joseph who was baptised in Manningford Bruce):
Joseph 2nd December 1804
Katharine 28th October 1810
Moses 9th march 1813
John 22nd January 1815
Benjamin 31st August 1817
Ann 12th September 1822
Mary’s parents and her sister Ann were recorded living in Rushall in 1841. Her mother died aged 66 in 1843, she was buried in Rushall on the 2nd March. Her father died aged 69 in 1845, he was buried in Rushall on the 7th February.
The 1851 census records Mary (41) as a Domestic Servant living in London Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire the home of a Marianne and Alfred Johnson (38). Alfred was an Independent Minister of London Street Chapel.
Mary married Daniel Goddard (a Gardener, born c1794 in Farnham Surrey) in 1861 (marriage registered March quarter in Newbury).
(Daniel was a widower, his 1st wife Elizabeth died aged 79 in 1860, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3rd December. Daniel married Elizabeth Wallis on the 21st February 1813 at St Mary’s Church Thatcham both single and were both from Greenham)
The 1861 census records Mary (53) and Daniel (67) living at 3 The Folley, Stroud Green, Newbury. The 1871 census records them living in Garland’s Yard, Newbury.
Daniel died aged 83 in 1876, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4th August.
The 1881 census records Mary (73) living at 15 Cheap Street, Newbury also recorded in the household was a visitor, Lucy Kemp (61), a Nurse.
Mary died aged 82 on the 24th February 1890 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery
The Newbury Weekly News dated the 27th February 1890 recorded the following:
Vacant Almshouse: - A vacancy occurs in St Mary’s Almshouses caused by the death of Mary Goddard, at the age of 82.
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