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1684. These were the two ladies The Goddard Association residing with Richard Goddard of Europe and were certainly his kinswomen, his grandmother and their father NEWSLETTER being brother and sister. When Richard died at Swindon in 1732, G S his brother Pleydell succeeded to ENS TE No. 91 – July 2009 INTER GEN the estate, but the sisters were left some generous bequests. COUSINS AND KINSWOMEN Pleydell Goddard died suddenly, The Swindon branch of the Goddards is very well documented, unmarried and without issue when he fell from his horse in the autumn principally because they owned land. To own land one must have of 1742. Ambrose Goddard of documentary proof and to understand that one must be literate. The Rudloe, a distant cousin, inherited family is also well served by accounts of its history. The Goddard the Swindon estate, but not without Family of North Wiltshire written by Charles Frederick Goddard a little difficulty from a more nearly (known in the family as ʻUncle Tobyʼ) and edited by patron Capt. related cousin, Oliver Goddard of John Goddard is an unpublished detailed account of the family as London, who was compensated researched at the end of the nineteenth century. with a small estate from the large Page 33 reads: “There is an hand than in Uncle Tobyʼs day. one. interesting connection between More archives are available for The sisters, Margaret and the Goddards of Swindon and study, particularly on the internet Dorothy Brind, both died in 1748. another local family, the Brinds without even leaving home. Dorothy died on 4 May, leaving of Wanborough. When Richard However, it is a co-operation of a short will leaving bequests to Goddard of Swindon died in 1732, resources which has solved Uncle her three married sisters: Mary he had living with him two ladies Tobyʼs puzzle. Exchange of e-mail wife of John Broadway vicar, named Margaret and Dorothy messages with the Pleydell Society Jane wife of Francis Merchant Brind, two of the five daughters and the Brind family researchers and Anne wife of Thomas Read. of Thomas Brind and his wife has revealed a solution. The remainder was to go to sister Dorothy née Hedges. Richard Martha Brind of Wanborough Margaret. However, Margaret made two wills, the first dated married around 1640, as his second died twenty-five days later. Had 26 June 1718 and the second 22 wife, Oliver Pleydell. While his the sisters been together all their September 1730, with a codicil first marriage had been without lives and could not live without dated 16 August 1732. In his first issue, his second was fruitful, each other? Margaretʼs will was will he bequeathed the Swindon producing eight children. One of a tour de force, leaving bequests to estate, he being a widower and the daughters, Mary Pleydell (born over one hundred people. They childless, to his brother Pleydell, 1649), married Thomas Goddard of range from mercers, maltsters, at whose death, if he died without Swindon. Thomas and Mary had innkeepers, to widows and include issue, it was to pass to Margaret six children. Richard, the maker her god-daughter Scholastica Brind who was to assume the of the questionable will which left Sevile, and the family of Ambrose name of Goddard. In his first and the Swindon estate to Margaret Goddard. Thomas Goddard was second wills he described these Brind in default of his brother left a gold watch and chain, if her sisters as cousins and kinswomen, Pleydell dying without issue, was sister Anne pre-deceased her and making considerable provision for their eldest surviving son. could not claim it. She must have both of them. The question arises, Martha Brind of Wanborough, had a considerable fortune. therefore, as to how they were who married Oliver Pleydell, The Goddard estate papers are related to him and the Swindon was the sister of Thomas Brind in the new Wiltshire and Swindon family at this time. Every effort who married Dorothy Hedges. Archive in Chippenham, but has been made to discover this, but Thomas and Dorothy produced there are still many other papers without success.” five daughters and (possibly) in the library of the Wiltshire Nowadays there are many more one son named John. Margaret Archaeological and Natural History sources of information ready to was born in 1680 and Dorothy in Society in Devizes Museum. 1 There are family letters included in the papers which JANE AUSTEN sometimes give us a glimpse of family life in those Association member Pete West writes: “The days. Thomas Goddard (1649-1710) writes to a article titled ʻJane Austen and the Goddardsʼ [in the London friend that he had been house bound with last Newsletter] reminded me that one of my Goddard gout but his wife, formerly Mary Pleydell, had been ancestors just may have had a very slight “association” shopping. In consequence he had been summoned in with the Austen family, who had many dealings court to pay for her purchases, to do which he thought with the town of Alton, for my 4x great grandfather he should have to borrow money. Had Mary suffered – Thomas Goddard (1766-1835) – collected the tolls enough from her gouty, irritable husband and gone and lived at Lenton St Turnpike House (now Flood to do some therapeutic retailing, to use the modern Meadow Cottage) from 1800 to 1809 (source Poor phrase? Julie Goddard, with the assistance Rate) in the town of Alton. I like to imagine Jane of David Brind, Jonathan Brind, Phyl Gaskell and passing the time of day with Thomas as the family Geoffrey Pleydell. jig passed through, but then we all like to romanticize about our ancestors, donʼt we?” WARREN GODDARD John of Accrington wrote to Malcolm of Brisbane: BLACKNEST GODDARDS “Your article reminded me of another William Here is another follow-up from the original Warren Goddard. I had sent to me some time ago a article on the Blacknest Goddards in Newsletter 89. World War One ʻdeath pennyʼ, the bronze memorial Membership Secretary John of Accrington writes: plaque sent to relatives of those killed. This bears “I was interested to note, in the article on the the name of Private William Warren Goddard of the Blacknest estate in Januaryʼs newsletter, the mention Royal Berkshire Regiment who died in France on 16 that William Roger Goddard of that branch lived in October 1917 and who had been born in Dunsden, Yorkshire. It reminded me that some years ago a Oxfordshire. Can you identify him as a relative? friend had sent me a page from a book of poems by E. I would like to pass the item on to any immediate Lamplough of Hull, published in 1888. The poem, descendent or to you if you wish.” entitled ʻEnglandʼs Fameʼ, is of no great interest or Malcolm replied: “Unfortunately he is not a literary merit, praising the Empire in High Victorian relation; mine are extremely well documented and rhetoric and belittling the “European upstarts”. But he isnʼt one of them. However, the Commonwealth it was dedicated to Colonel W. E. Goddard of Anlaby, War Graves Commission website has only one Hull, not W.R. Goddard as I had thought. However, W.W. Goddard listed as dying on this date: ʻPrivate a quick check of the 1881 census showed that W.R. W.W. Goddard, 85029, 25th Coy., Machine Gun Goddard was a 77 year old retired stationer living Corps (Infantry), who died on 16 October 1917. in Hull with three spinster daughters and William Remembered with honour. Longuenesse (St. Omer) Edward G. of Anlaby aged 43 was obviously his son, Souvenir Cemetery.ʼ There is also a service record as his occupation is given as ʻwholesale stationer, listed in the GAE index of WW1 British Goddardʼs lithographer and binder employing 40 compositorsʼ. Service records 1914-1920 for a William Warren His wife, Alethea, was almost twenty years younger Goddard, with the only detail being the year of the and they had a one month old son, William Bailey document, 1915, so it could be accessed at the PRO Goddard. No doubt the Burkeʼs Landed Gentry if someone was able to go there or purchase online. entry will explain how he had become a Colonel. He also shows up in the GAE index of WW1 British Another small piece of the Yorkshire Goddard jigsaw Goddardʼs Medal Roll with two regimental numbers: in place!” William W. Goddard, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Machine Gun Corps, 17710, 85029.ʼ He is also GOLFER YET AGAIN listed in Peter of Torontoʼs death index as being Golfer Luke Goddard, who has featured several approx. 31 years old, approx. year of birth 1886. So times in these pages recently, has been in the news it might be worth someone finding this manʼs story again, this time helping England to reach the final of and publishing it and seeing if any member is related. the European Amateur Team Championship, which It might be very useful to look him up in the 1891 has just been played at Conwy in North Wales; he census in Dunsden, Oxfordshire and again the 1901 won the deciding singles match against Norway. census; this should establish his family. Iʼll ask a Scotland, however, won the final 5-2, but the article contact who has access to Ancestry.com to have a did not say whether Luke won his match or not. I wonder if and when he might turn professional. look for me.” 2 3 DYING ON THE NHS ITEMS FOR SALE Under the above title, the Sunday Telegraph for 5 May I remind you that the Association has various July ran an article on the unnecessary deaths of patients items for sale.