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Capt. Goddard).” A further short The Goddard Association obituary was published in over of Europe twenty other newspapers covering England, Scotland and Ireland. The probate record of his NEWSLETTER will, reproduced here, is amongst G those collected by the late Peter EN ES S INTER GENT No. 117 – JANUARY 2016 Goddard and viewable on the Goddard Association of Europe STORIES FROM THE PROBATE INDEX – 3 website:- “Goddard Samuel 3-Jan Samuel Goddard, Military Knight, 1793-1869 1869 Windsor Berkshire Under £600 1869 -26 January. Letters The Standard (latterly called the London Evening Standard) of administration of the Personal of 5 January 1869 published an obituary for a Samuel Goddard: estate and effects of Samuel “DEATH OF A MILITARY KNIGHT AT WINDSOR CASTLE. Goddard late of the Castle Yard – On Sunday last Capt. Samuel Goddard, Military Knight of Windsor in the County of Berks one Windsor, died at his residence in the Lower Ward, Windsor of the Military Knights of Windsor Castle. This veteran and gallant officer was formerly of the 14th deceased who died 3 January 1869 or Buckinghamshire Regt. of Foot and had seen very lengthened at the Castle Yard aforesaid were service in the army, having served in the campaign of 1815, granted at Oxford to Ellen Cotes including the battle of Waterloo and the storming of Cambray; in (Wife of the Reverend Septimus 1817 in the East Indies he was present at the siege of Hattrass, and Cotes Clerk) of Newington in the in the campaign of 1817-18 in the Deccan; also at the siege and county of Oxford the Daughter and storming of Bhurtpore in 1825-6. With the medal so well earned, one of the Next of Kin of the said Deceased she having been first he was one of the officers receiving awards for distinguished sworn.” service; moreover, as having originated the measure by which Samuel was buried at St Peter ad he was accorded to meritorious quartermasters of long service Vincula Church South Newington, the nominal rank of captain, several of whom, many years since, Oxfordshire, where his son-in-law, presented him with a handsome testimonial, expressive of their the Reverend Septimus Cotes, obligation, and of his efficient aid.” was the Rector. However, the The article goes on to record early life of Samuel Goddard is a an incident on 18 June 1815, first mystery at present, not helped by quoted by John of Accrington in statements he made in the 1861 his article on the battle of Waterloo census returns and in a marriage in Newsletter 115: “On Waterloo register. Various records during day Sergt. Goddard was with an his life show that Samuel was born advanced party of skirmishers of in 1793 but, so far, no baptism has the 14th, and about four oʼclock been found. He joined the army the reflux wave of some French in about 1805, aged twelve, for cuirassiers passed through them. several years of ʻboy serviceʼ (in They were of course fired at by 1810 there were some 11,000 boys the 14th skirmishers, and several in an army totalling 340,000). In hit the dust. One poor wounded about 1814 he transferred to the Frenchman was thrown from newly formed 3rd Battalion 14th his horse, and a comrade nobly Regiment of Foot with the rank of returned and offered the soldier the Colour Sergeant, and stayed with help of his stirrup. An active light was then rescuing his comrade, this regiment for the rest of his infantry man of the 14th, Whitney by when Goddard interfered and active army career. Highlights of name, who had shot one cuirassier, said, ʻNo, Whitney, donʼt fire; his adult army career are reported having reloaded, was about to fire let him off, he is a noble fellowʼ. briefly in the obituary above. at the mounted Frenchman, who (Communicated by a friend of Samuel married Rose Mary 1 Henrietta Riddell, widow of John Palmer (whom she 1840s as an Ensign. He retired in 1869 with the rank married at Enfield 26 April 1827), on 6 September of Captain and died in 1889 still unmarried. Charles 1830 at St Pancras Old Church, London. Samuel and Edmund was found staying with the family of Ellen Rose had two children, Charles Edmund baptised at Cotes, née Goddard, Samuelʼs daughter and Charlesʼs Carrisbrooke, Southampton, 13 November 1831, and sister, in Newington for the 1871 census. Mary Anne Ellen born in Athlone, Westmeath, Ireland in 1833. Lydia Goddard was with her aunt Sarah Hollis, née The record of the death of Rose Mary Henrietta Goddard, widow of Henry Hollis and sister of Daniel Goddard is hidden amongst the records of the 14th Poole Goddard, at 9 Freehold Road, Ipswich, for Regiment, but we know that Samuel married again the 1881 census. Otherwise she seems to elude the on 20 November 1848 in Poona, Bombay, India, to records as she was not with her parents in Windsor another widow Mary Ann Hayes, née De Gama, who for the 1861 census, nor has she been positively had been born in 1821 in Bombay. A daughter, Mary identified later, unless she was the Lydia M.A., or just Anne Lydia, was born to them on 24 December 1851 Lydia Goddard, born in India in about 1852, residing and christened in Neemuch, Bombay on 14 January in mental institutions in several later censuses. Also 1852. missing from records is Samuelʼs wife Mary Ann, In the Bombay register of 1851 for Samuelʼs second living in Windsor with him in the 1861 census. No marriage he stated that his father was ʼDaniel Poole record of her death has yet been found, but in 1869 Goddardʼ, but he was baptised in November 1785 only following Samuelʼs death it is his daughter Ellen who eight years before his ʻsonʼ Samuel! According to the is administering his estate not, as one would have information Samuel submitted for the 1861 census, he expected, his wife Mary Ann had she still been alive had been born in Norwich, Norfolk, in 1793; but no at this time. record of this has been found. Daniel Poole Goddard The Military Knights of Windsor proudly claim to was baptised on 15 December 1783, the son of Daniel be the oldest military establishment in the Army List. a Deacon of the Bull Lane Independent Church in Edward III established an order known as the Alms Stepney, London. At the age of three he was sent to Knights and nicknamed ʻPoor Knightsʼ; they formed school in Suffolk following the death of his mother. part of the College of St George that was created to Daniel Poole Goddard married Lucy Hale, or Haill, support the establishment of the Honourable and on 14 August 1806 at the St Mary le Tower church Most Noble Order of the Garter. Twenty-six ʻPoor Ipswich, just about the time Samuel joined the army. Knightsʼ, mirroring the twenty-six Garter Knights, Pure conjecture, but perhaps Daniel Poole Goddard were given accommodation in the Lower Ward of was not Samuelʼs father until he married Lucy. Windsor Castle in order to help those knights who Daniel Poole Goddard spent the school holidays had fallen into financial adversity. Many of these with his grandfather Daniel Goddard, a deacon of knights had used their own private armies to fight for the Independent Church at Rendham, but joined the Edward III at the battle of Crécy in France, had been Independent Church Tacket Street Ipswich where he captured, and had had to sell up their estates to ransom worshipped for the rest of his life. He was made themselves out of captivity (as was the practice in the an assistant secretary and accountant for the Suffolk fourteenth century). In 1833 William IV renamed Auxiliary Bible Society. In the 1820s and 1830s he the Order to be ʻMilitary Knightsʼ and allowed them owned the Unicorn Inn, 2 Orwell Place, Ipswich and to wear scarlet tailcoats of army officers. The Order an adjacent brewery, and was a Fire Office Agent; today still consists of twenty-six members who are later, 1841, a ʻmerchantʼ. He was buried on 29 usually married officers of merit who donʼt have October 1842 at Tacket Street Independent Church. much more than their military pensions to live on. In A biography of Daniel Poole Goddard written by his exchange for housing they have various duties around wife and youngest daughter, published in 1846, has a the Castle, including parade duties about fifty-two cryptic sentence: “Mrs Goddard was not blessed with times a year. religious advantages until she was about fifteen years According to The Military Knights of Windsor of age” – an odd wording written by the authoress 1352-1944 by Edmund H. Fellowes, Quarter-Master about herself. Was Samuel the son of Lucy Hale? (Hon. Capt.) Samuel Goddard 1856-1869 was Of Samuelʼs children, Ellen married Septimus admitted to the ʻLower Foundationʼ on 31 October Cotes at Windsor in 1858. He was then the Rector 1856, where he died on 3 January 1869 aged 75. of Newington, Oxfordshire, but he had previously Samuel Goddard was not poor from a monetary point been a curate at Purton in Wiltshire; they had nine of view, his pension was ʻhalf payʼ, his estate at death children. Charles Edmund joined the army in the late was equivalent to over £25,000 in todayʼs money, 2 3 but neither he nor his wife had had any experience 1816 INQUEST of life outside the army when he retired in late 1852 In the Kent BMD database I have the following probably in Dublin, Ireland.