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 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 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 related cousin, Oliver Goddard of John Goddard is an unpublished detailed account of the family as London, who was compensated researched at the end of the nineteenth century.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 , 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. The following Monographs are in NHS hospitals. The first case study concerned a available at £3 each, as follows: Berkshire – Chieveley, Kintbury, Speen & London Mrs Pamela Goddard, a piano teacher aged 82, who Derbyshire High Peak I – Chinley & Buxworth died in East Surrey Hospital on 27 October last year. Derbyshire High Peak II – New Mills, Kettleshume & Whaley Bridge Derbyshire High Peak III – Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith & Dove Holes She had been successfully treated for breast cancer – Wellow, Romsey & St Pancras (London) for half her lifetime and, although it had recently Midlands & Home Counts – Banbury, Market Harborough, Leicester & Hitchin North East Hampshire – Yateley, Cove & Farnborough returned, it was not the cancer which killed her, but an North Gloucestershire I – Chipping Campden & Quinton untreated bedsore which caused her terrible pain for North Gloucestershire II – Stanway & Vale of Evesham North Gloucestershire III – Snowshill & Eckington a month and resulted in a fatal blood infection. Her North Wiltshire I – , Enfield (Middlesex) & Mere son Adrian, who lives in America, felt the hospitalʼs North Wiltshire II – Berwick Bassett, Catford & Hidden North Wiltshire III – East Woodhay & Castle Eaton excuses about lack of nurses or insufficient time to North Wiltshire IV – Clyffe Pypard, Standen Hussey & Purton attend to his mother were unacceptable, and a formal North Wiltshire V – Aldbourne to Australia via America & New Zealand complaint has been lodged. South East Norfolk – Bunwell, Aslacton, Carleton Rode & Southwark (Surrey) Alternatively for £10 you can buy a CD that has GODDARD BUILDING all monographs on plus a number of other documents, I am grateful to Jill Hawkins of Earl Shilton particularly some Goddard wills. Because of in Leicestershire for spotting an article in the the Executive Committeeʼs increasing desire to Hinckley Times of 30 April concerning “two massive go electronic, none of these monographs will be developments in Hinckley which are on the brink reprinted. So if you wish to obtain ʻhardʼ copies I of being approved.” One is “to turn the Goddard suggest you contact me (Richard of Malvern) quickly Building on Lower Bond Street into a centre for as stocks are already low in some cases. creative industries.” It was originally built in 1878 Then there is the reprint of Richard Jefferiesʼ A and is Grade II listed. The development would Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts at £5. involve “installing new staircases, flooring, toilets and Association ties (currently maroon) are £5, a cafe-bar reception area”. The second project is “for brooches £2.50, and ten postcards of two Wiltshire a new building on land next to the Goddard Building Goddard brass rubbings £1. Finally, there are two which was recently cleared. It will provide a new sizes of limited edition plates (side and dinner) with £15m campus for North Warwickshire and Hinckley coloured shields of various Goddard branches, priced College.” There is no picture accompanying the at £5 (reduced from £12 because all the remainder article, nor does it say how the building got its have small blemishes) and £15 respectively. The name; but my guess is that it was designed by one larger size would make ideal and somewhat different generation of the prominent Leicestershire Goddard presents for the Goddard relative who already has family of architects. everything! All prices include packing and postage.

NEW MEMBERS AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTOR A warm welcome to the one new member who has My elder daughter Diana, who is a Special Projects joined the Association since the last Newsletter: Manager for Vodafone, happened recently to be doing Mrs Helen C. Ball, 5 Princethorpe Close, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2LP. some business with a Steve Goddard (who is said to look like Father Christmas), the Global Infrastructure NEW MEMBERS FAMILIES Director at automotive parts supplier TRW in Shirley The information below is given to enable existing in Birmingham. Does anyone know of him? members to get in touch with new members who appear to belong to the same branch: MURDER AGAIN Helen Ball is A Goddard has become involved in another descended from Fanny Elliot Goddard, born June murder case. The Daily Telegraph of 9 June reported 1843 in Winchester. Fannyʼs father is not known on a trial at the Old Bailey in which a man murdered and no baptism, birth registration or early census his partner of nine years because she was about to entry has been found. Fanny married Charles F. leave him for her married work boss. The latter, one Ames in St Pancras in 1865, and is thought to belong Simon Goddard who was the managing director of a to a Winchester family of Goddards, some of whom Mercedes garage in Basingstoke, had already left his moved to St Pancras. wife to set up home with Kirsty Wilson. 2 3 GODDARD - AYLING While searching for something else, I recently William Bakerʼs daughter, Harriet, married came across material I had not used in a Newsletter George Adams, a mason, who built most of the before. It came in a letter to John of Accrington from homes in Coleford including his own ʻHill Houseʼ Tony Horne of Bristol in 1992, and I now offer my in Highbury at the top of the village. Iʼve visited belated thanks. I suspect I had sufficient material it often when the Edgels lived there. William and available at the time and put it on one side for future Harriet Baker are buried in Coleford churchyard by use. Tony writes: “My mother was a Goddard the path on the other side of the church from the path and you may be interested in the enclosed material up from the gate. There are several Adams living collected by my cousin, Gerald W.G. McDonald.” around there and the cousins were long time friends “The first Goddard we know of was George of the Goddard family. Marjorie Edgel, an Adams Goddard who grew up in Sussex. He married who married an Edgel, went to teacherʼs training Charlotte Ayling in the beautiful little church at college with my mother and they were close for years. Westbourne in that county. We donʼt know much William and Harriet Baker had, I am told, six sons about the Goddard family. Aunt Val, I believe, visited and three daughters. Eva Jane was my grandmother, Westbourne and enquired about any Goddards. The but I heard references to Aunts Mop, Ep, and Cet who rector told her that ʻthere were some at the bottom of lived in Bristol. the village but a lady like you wouldnʼt want to meet Eva Jane Adams married Arthur Ayling Goddard, themʼ. Aunt Glad had a document which referred to ran the village and had four daughters and two sons. an ancestor who was hanged at Tyburn, which must Arthur Goddard apparently was a tough father and have been quite an honour since hanging at Tyburn insisted on a good education for his children, all of was reserved for high class and political criminals. whom were trained as teachers or musicians except Charlotte Aylingʼs father, William, was apparently for Arthur who was in the Indian Army. They had quite a patriarch. He owned a large farm near their share of high jinks. I heard hushed references Woodmancote, Hampshire, and a farmersʼ magazine to runaway marriages and Arthur probably ran away article describes his 80th birthday in 1857. He was from home to join the army. born in 1777 and died, aged 83, in 1860. According Gladys Harriet Ayling Goddard was the oldest and to the article ʻhe had numerous progeny who came bossed the others. She ended up as headmistress of from far and nearʼ. the prestigious Esher Girls School in Surrey. She George Goddard was a railway inspector and married Gordon Searle, a car dealer, but died of a latterly lived in Richmond and in Windsor. Charlotte heart attack at a relatively young age. Her school died at an early age and the family was brought up holidays permitted her to travel all over Europe and by a succession of housekeepers. One of their she often took one of her sisters with her. My mother sons, Arthur Ayling Goddard, attended Richmond went with her to Interlaken in Switzerland and they College and qualified as a schoolmaster. Arthur also toured the Black Forest. Glad possessed most became master of the little school in the village of of the family documents, but they disappeared on her Coleford, Somerset, and spent his life there. The death after which we heard little from Gordon. schoolmasterʼs duties in a small village were diverse. Valerie Ruby Ayling was next. She married George He was also organist and choirmaster, reported for the Edmonds who, like my Dad, was a mining engineer. Bristol and Bath newspapers, was executor of most of They spent most of their lives in India where he was the wills in the village, and advisor to all. I am told chief engineer of a copper mining company at Bihar that desperate widows used to call on him to chastise in Bengal. Aunt Val was quite a musician, training wayward sons. The young Arthur Goddard lodged at the Trinity College School of Music. After Indiaʼs with Mrs George Adams and married her daughter ʻliberationʼ and a stint in Cyprus, they retired to the Eva Jane Adams. He was a cradle snatcher since lovely old ʻRed Houseʼ, Frindsbury, near Rochester Eva Jane was actually a pupil in his class. Later she in Kent. Georgeʼs family came from Kent and his became schoolmistress. grandfather was mayor of Gravesend. The Edmonds On my grandmotherʼs side we can trace the line had three children: Jeanne now in Canada, George back to William Baker who was baker in Coleford still in Kent, and Jack a schoolmaster in Taunton. and confectioner, too, though I doubt that Coleford My mother Evelyn Charlotte Ayling Goddard demanded many confections. Apparently he was was next. She also trained as a teacher and taught well educated and accumulated a little library at a in many places including Ashstead and the beautiful time when most villagers couldnʼt even read. town of Ross-on-Wye in Hereforshire. She married 4 5 my father, William McDonald, and you can read the family home, especially for her two children in about them elsewhere. India and for Billie and Cis who were not married at The first son was Arthur Gerald Ivo Ayling Goddard, that time. who was probably the black sheep of the family. Iʼm Uncle Arthur was born in Coleford, Somerset, pretty sure he ran away and joined the army in the on 21 May 1895. He was the fourth child and First World War. He transferred to the Indian army first son of my grandfather Arthur Ayling Goddard, and made a successful career of it, retiring as Colonel schoolmaster in Coleford. In good Goddard tradition of the Regiment and commandant of the regimental he was given a stout name: Arthur Gerald Ivo Ayling centre. He bequeathed a Samurai sword, captured Goddard. According to his sisters he was a pretty by one of his troopers who won a VC doing so, to my wild kid with great talent for getting into trouble. He son Malcolm who has a collection of clippings telling joined the army early in the First World War and was something of his career. Arthur married an Australian commissioned in the Monmouthshire Regiment on girl, Lois Riggs, and had a daughter, Anthea, before 21 October 1914 at age 19. Not many subalterns, Lois died in a drowning accident. He subsequently who were platoon leaders, survived the trench married a widow, Gertrude (Button) Robinson, heiress warfare in France, but he did and joined the Indian to a teak operation in Burma, and they had daughters Army in France on 12 January 1918. He probably Geraldine and Jane before they divorced. Arthur died had an eye for the future. Prospects in England were in 1976 and is buried at Coleford. grim compared to the life of pukka sahib in the Indian Otto Eric Winn Willie Ayling Goddard was, for an Establishment. obvious reason, known as Billie. He followed in his He saw service in Afghanistan, Waziristan and fatherʼs footsteps and was schoolmaster at various Burma before more permanent assignment to the schools in Somerset. During World War I he was a Punjab – the northwest border between India and purser on a minesweeper in the North Sea. With one Afghanistan. This was the last frontier of ʻthe son in the trenches in France and the other looking for Empireʼ and one of the last frontiers of the civilized mines at sea, their father had an anxious time. Uncle world. (Or was till all those colonies got their Billie married Doreen Parker, daughter of a local freedom and became uncivilized again,) He spent minister, and they had three children John, David the years working his way up through the Indian and Mary. George Edmonds and I were page boys Army. My first memory of him must be in the mid at their wedding, in cute white satin suits. After the 1930s when he was a major home on leave. Home reception we found the half empty sherry bottles and leave was a big deal. An Indian Army officer got six enjoyed ourselves. As of this writing Aunt Doreen is months every three years, but had to sail back and still going strong, the last survivor of that generation. forth during that time – no airlines. They would save I believe that John is a farmer and that Mary is a a week by sailing to Marseilles and taking the train shopkeeper in Somerset. across France. The six months was generally one The last, Madeline Eva Ayling Goddard, whom we long party visiting country houses, shooting, buying called Aunt Cis, came along much later. She was the a car and selling it again, taking a flat in London for live wire of the family, played tennis and took part a few weeks, etc. On one leave he really lived it up in sporty amateur theatricals. She, too, was a great and flew home on one of the first flights of Imperial musician and was church organist for longer than I Airways. This was a daring adventure in those times can remember. Cis married Rupert Horne, son of and took about four days since they did not fly at the leading gentlemenʼs clothier and haberdasher night or in bad weather. in Frome and they lived at Bromstone not far from That was not a peaceful time in India. There was Welshmill Lodge. They had two children: Jennifer, still lots of guerilla type activity in the Northwest now in Taunton, and Tony at Thornbury, near Bristol, Provinces around the Kyber Pass. He apparently where he is engineer at the atomic power plant. I acquitted himself well and was again ʻmentioned in spent many happy summers with Cisʼs family, cycling despatchesʼ in 1934. In 1935 he was awarded the down there from Scotland. Curiously, our Maria OBE, generally awarded for distinguished peacetime started working on the breeder reactor in the US just service. It was a big occasion when he went to when Tony started to shut down one of the earliest Buckingham Palace and received the award from atomic power plants at Thornbury. King George V. He was a soldierʼs soldier. When After Grandpa Goddard died, Grandma moved my cousin George, also his nephew, joined the army from Coleford to the larger town of Frome. She settled in 1944 he wrote him a letter of advice which tells a down at Welshmill Lodge which she maintained as lot about his character. George got out of the army 4 5 as quickly as he could! RESEARCH CO-ORDINATORʼS REPORT When the Second World War broke out he was 44 Have you ever taken on a job and thought “I could and considered too old for active duty. During most do that”? Well, that is exactly what I did when of this period he was Commandant of the 15th Punjab offering assistance as Research Co-ordinator for the Regimental Centre and responsible for training Indian Association. I quickly realised that my genealogy troops about to be assigned to the war in North Africa. experience was very limited and that the real experts After the war ended in Europe and attention turned to were out there in the big world. The Association has driving the Japanese out of Southeast Asia he served more than their fair share of dedicated researchers for a time as an Indian expert on Field Marshal who do it for the love of it and for the benefit of Auckinlekʼs (the Auk) staff. But he returned to the others. Regimental Centre where he served as Commandant The Database of facts and figures is rapidly until he retired. expanding and is mainly due to a few of our members From the Imperial War Museum in London we and Malcolmʼs superb work with the internet site. It were fortunate enough to obtain copies of a couple cannot be emphasised enough just how much we rely of interesting articles from the regimental newspaper. on the expertise of others to provide information, so One tells of the return of a battalion of troops from that we can all reap the benefits of their hard work. service in the campaign to liberate Burma. The The daftest thing I have done is to promise Julie of sword referred to in the article is not our sword Newbury a copy of the Goddard Smith diary before since the article is dated June 1944 and the action at checking what was involved. 104 pages of A3, Myingyan did not take place until 1945. The second which had to be reduced to A4, scanned and sent to article is an account of ceremonies upon the Colonelʼs Julie – over 50 Mb of information. We are currently retiral, which confirms the reports that he was highly at the half way mark, Julie has bought out Staples and respected by his troops and fellow officers. we are an awful lot wiser! Arthur Goddard remained a bachelor till during I am sure that we have all changed our computers the Second War. During a leave taken in Australia and lost, mislaid or deleted files that we wanted to (return to Europe was impossible) he met Lois Riggs keep and that is what I have managed to achieve, with and they were later married in India in a grand spectacular ease. My inbox has in excess of 300 regimental ceremony. By all reports they were very emails from members requesting probate information, happy and had one girl, Anthea. Lois, however, died new members, additions to family trees and areas of in a drowning accident in India. He subsequently interest. Long may it continue. On many occasions married Gertrude Robertson (Button). Button was work gets in the way of achieving what I would like the widow of the owner of a major teak concession to achieve, so I ask members to be patient with my around Mandalay in Burma. The Japanese drove sometimes tardy responses. them out and the husband lost his life. Button The Association has a wealth of knowledge and organised a group of similarly situated women and material that may well help our members with their walked from Rangoon up the Chindwin River across research. All we ask is that you ask and we will do the Chin Hills to Imphal in India (now Bangladesh) our utmost to assist. I am still learning and hope to – a distance of 300-400 miles. Included in that group be a useful addition to the Association for many years was a young American correspondent who had got to come. cut off. He was Eric Severied who later became a The Association holds – and eventually hopes to famous commentator on US TV. His account of get at least some of it on the website – research files the journey criticised the ladies for having Burmese on:- rubies sewn into the seams of their clothes! They Australia, Berkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, had two daughters, Geraldine and Jane. Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Ireland, Kent, Uncle Arthur retired first to Dunblane in Scotland, Leicestershire, London, Wiltshire, New Zealand, then Bournemouth in England and finally, after he Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Button divorced, to Frome, Somerset, near his Oxfordshire, Scotland, Somerset, South Africa, birthplace. He died on 18 June 1976 and lies in Suffolk, Sussex, Wales, Warwickshire, West Country the Goddard family plot in Coleford churchyard in and West Indies. Some areas have been extensively Somerset.” researched and others less so. The GAE also holds Does any Association member come from this limited information on Huguenots, Canal Boatmen, family, or recognise it? It would be nice to add more Clergymen, Artists and Soldiers and Sailors. information to what has already been supplied. Colin of Brackley 6 7 WEBSITE CO-ORDINATORʼS REPORT The new Association website has been up and within the GAE who have aided me in expanding running for a year now and was an initiative of our late the website database collections during this hectic Research Co-ordinator, Peter of Toronto, in technical twelve months, including Joan Dibble and her friend consultation with myself. Peter had the belief that Cathy Goodwin, Maxine Cadzow, Arnold Palmer, the GAE should be the primary point of contact for new GAE Research Co-ordinator Colin Goddard, anyone researching Goddards anywhere in the world, Margaret Young, former Research Co-ordinators and that an active and up-to-date website on the Brian and Julie Goddard, and many more members internet was going to be able to provide the facility who have contributed their individual records to the to enable people to, if not begin researching their greater knowledge of the Association generally. Also family tree, at least verify what they had found and thanks to our President Richard Goddard for putting expand their knowledge by contact with like-minded up with my constant e-mails every time I update, add Goddard researchers through a simple but effective to or generally change something on the site; our collection of database records and information. The correspondence must run into the hundreds of e-mails internet website has really built on the motto of the on this subject alone. Association, proving that we really are a ʻfamily But most of all I am grateful to my mate Peter among nationsʼ, as members who have contributed to Goddard of Toronto whoʼs vision saw this project the expansion of the site come from England, Canada, start and whoʼs guidance and thoughts I miss every Australia, New Zealand and the USA. time I sit at my computer to do some more work ʻon As you would all know, the internet is not all that family history stuffʼ as my kids call it. Thanks things to all people and, unfortunately, many people for the legacy. Malcolm of Brisbane still believe that if it is on the net then it must be true. One of the important over-riding criteria that FAMILY REUNION Peter established was that the information that would Carol Haughey, a new member, is holding a family be available on the GAE website would be of very reunion on 22 August. She comes from the Chinley high quality and based on the standard professional and Bugsworth Goddards of Derbyshire, being the genealogical practice of ʻverify, verify, verifyʼ. great great granddaughter of Eliza Goddard Hartle Since Peter passed away in 2008 I have continued (1863-1931), whose parents were John Goddard his work and am now proud to say that the site and Betty Walton, and whose children were Edith, encompasses 27 searchable databases covering over George, John, Joe, Tom, William and Sam. She is 10,000 records, some of which are available nowhere particularly looking for pictures and stories of this else on the net, including the Goddard Probate Index line, and says ʻAll are welcome!ʼ For details contact (1857-1958) which lists every Goddard whose will Carol on was listed for probate in England and Wales between these years. This was a huge undertaking on Peterʼs GODDARDS AND LIDDERDALES part and a legacy to Goddard researchers that he Mary Livingstone Goddard, who lives in Littleton, can be proud of. Amongst other indexes we also Colorado, is very proud of her descent from Richard have a searchable index of over 600 Birth, Death Goddard and Janet Lidderdale. The family lived and Marriage certificates (the originals are held by and farmed at Hamstead Marshall near Kintbury, members); this is well in excess of the 500 that Berkshire, in the 1840s and 50s. See Goddard Peter hoped to get when he proposed the registration Monograph 13 for more details. Richard and Janet scheme some eighteen months ago. had at least thirteen children and a good number I have a vast collection of Peterʼs and Brianʼs of them moved to the mid-west of America, where records to add to the site and will over time, but with their descendants hold occasional family gatherings. working full time, studying part-time and running my Mary has compiled a booklet about the history of very energetic teenagers to their sports training and the Lidderdale side of the family for distribution at events, time to spend on the website is a bit restricted this yearʼs gathering; one copy for each of the older at present, but watch this space. I do add stuff every members who attend. Most of the information from now and then, so watch the menu on the site for the her researches will probably be new to the recipients, word ʻUpdatedʼ and check the date at the bottom of especially the story which says that the Lidderdales the menu; there are exciting things to come in the are descended from twin boys, the product of an next twelve months. illegitimate union between a Scottish landowner and I am extremely grateful to a great number of people a visiting French lady! Julie of Newbury 6 7 AGM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The twenty-third AGM was held on Sunday17 The Executive Committee held its 44th meeting May 2009 in the village hall at Whissendine near at Whissendine Village Hall on Sunday 17 May Melton Mobray. Some two dozen members attended. 2009. Apologies had been received from Stephen of After a brief welcome by the President, a number of Buckhurst Hill. The Minutes of the previous meeting apologies were recorded. The Minutes of the last were approved. Treasurer John went through the meeting were approved and signed; there were no accounts, which showed a healthy surplus. Great matters arising. Treasurer John of Shrewsbury approval of the website was expressed and, given presented his report, and a copy of the Accounts can Malcolm of Brisbaneʼs very busy life, it was wondered be obtained by contacting him. In response to a what steps if any could be taken to support him. It question as to what we proposed to do with the very was agreed that there were no new monographs ready healthy surplus, it was stated that it was available for for publication in the near future. The procedures contributing to the repair of Goddard monuments as for the afternoonʼs AGM were briefly gone through. in the past, or for professional research as necessary. It was decided to hold the next Committee meeting There was no intention to increase subscriptions. A on Sunday 25 October at Treasurer Johnʼs house in brief discussion followed as to the possibility of Shrewsbury; it was also agreed that Membership producing another piece of glassware for members. Secretary, John of Accrington, should continue to The new Research Co-ordinator, Colin of welcome each new member with a hard copy letter. Brackley, gave his report (see page 6). This was followed by the President reading the report of the CAN YOU HELP? Website Co-ordinator, Malcolm of Brisbane, (see Bryan John Goddard, born in England on 4 page 7). The election of Officers then took place. February 1940 and now living in Hungary, to trace Richard of Malvern was returned as President, Eileen his cousins who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. of Accrington as Secretary and John of Shrewsbury as One, Mim Goddard, married a John Terrell and moved Treasurer. Margaret McAlpin and Joan Dibble were from Richmond near London to Sydney, Australia, re-elected for a further three year term as Committee where John was chief engineer for PIE television. members, and Colin of Brackley was elected to fill They had two daughters, one of whom became a TV the remaining year of the late Peter of Torontoʼs term. soap star. If anyone recognises this family, would It was agreed that the next AGM would be held on they please contact our Australian Co-ordinator, Ian Sunday 16 May 2010 in the village hall at Aldbourne of Balcatta (details below). near Swindon as last year. After the formal proceedings were over, the USEFUL ADDRESSES Association web page: www.goddard-association.org.uk President announced the winner of the Howard Australian Co-ordinator: Ian Goddard, P.O. Box 618, Goddard-Jones Memorial for 2009: Malcolm of Balcatta, Western Australia 6914. Tel: (08) 9245 4510 Brisbane. Dr Denise Syndercombe Court then Email: [email protected] Fax: (08) 9245 4540 Canadian Co-ordinator: Robert Goddard, 1806-1816 Haro Street, gave an update on the DNA project. Having tested Vancouver, British Columbia, V6G 2Y7, Canada. Tel: 604 669 5769 a few more members and having linked in with the Email: [email protected] American Associationʼs project, she felt it would be a Membership Secretary: John C. Goddard, 2 Lowergate Road, Huncoat, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 6LN. Tel: 01254-235135 good idea to put the basic information on the website. Email: [email protected] The proceedings ended with tea and biscuits and a New Zealand Co-ordinator: Julie Goddard, 2/36 Young Street, raffle to help defray the dayʼs expenses; many thanks Christchurch, New Zealand. Tel: 03-9815175 Email: [email protected] to all those who donated prizes. President & Newsletter Ed.: Richard G.H. Goddard, Sinton Meadow, Stocks Lane, Leigh Sinton, Malvern, WR13 5DY. Tel: 01886-832404 ADAM ANT Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Eileen Goddard, 2 Lowergate Road, Adam Ant, alias Stuart Goddard who has featured Huncoat, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 6LN. Tel: 01254-235135 several times in these pages, is planning a comeback. Email: [email protected] The 1980s pop star, now aged 54, fell from grace at Research Co-ordinator: Colin F. Goddard, 2 Stratton Drive, the beginning of this decade when his mental health Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 6HE. Tel: 01280-706362 Email: [email protected] gave way. Now physically fitter and with the support Treasurer: John W. Goddard, 7 Radbrook Road, of his new girl friend Clare and older fans, he is Radbrook, Shrewsbury, SY3 9BB. Tel: 01743-357866 planning a series of live performances. I am grateful Email: [email protected] USA Co-ordinator: Mrs Alice Godard Allen, 2 Stratton Circle, to Margaret of Worsley for sending me a cutting from Enfield, Connecticut 06082, USA. Tel: 860-749-7878 the Daily Mail of 9 June giving this information. 8 Email: [email protected]